Hey cyberpunk fans! What follows below is a very simple breakdown of the 10 episodes of The God That Died. There are many names of people and places mentioned. For the best experience, we suggest that, before reading, you check out the Introduction, Characters and Refuge One pages prior to reading the below.
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EPISODE 1 – The Return of Haze
It’s 288 AAI. The last of humanity resides in Refuge One. The city’s living systems are dying and the prospects for human survival look grim. The Builders have a secret plan to save humanity. It is secret, because they cannot save everyone. If the plan can remain on schedule and isn’t disrupted by the rebellion, the Builder Ark will launch in no less than two years, and save humanity from being extinguished in its entirety.
At the outskirts of Refuge One where the protective skin that shields the city is anchored to the shield wall, The Derelicte is dragging itself through an open entry, after having crawled 6000km get here.
In a party hosted in the Church of Truuf, Coi and Haze Cat taste something that should be impossible, 300 year-old Haze.
Haze Cat witnesses a forced disappearance, the victim replaced by FingerCat ectype. Shocked by the sinister and heinous crime he’s witnessed, Haze Cat contemplates awakening Soleilla—an act T’Mond explictly forbade. Fearing Soleilla may be the rebellion’s only hope, he begins decanting her from a 288-year gestation.
In MassInc-1, a free mass of Haze Primordial enters the system and precipitates the release of a prisoner who is then rescued by the rebellion. Deep in the under-city, her mind begins to clear. The memories she recalls alien, terrifying and incomprehensible.
Even further underground, Soleilla wakes up, her memories wiped clean. Haze Cat is Soleilla’s protector, and she needs to stay put for her own safety. But Soleilla is in no mood to comply, hating her confinement. And so, the most powerful mind ever created escapes back to the surface and back into Refuge One.
Overseer Kader encounters Soleilla at the year’s most exclusive party. He leaves so alarmed, he orders the acceleration of the Builder plan.
EPISODE 2 – Survival Day
Celebrity digger and investigator Odwon Ku, host of Odwon’s Oddities, looks into the mysterious appearance of impromptu shrines and offerings dedicated to the “AI God.” The trail leads him to a potentially devastating revelation. It threatens the Builders, but it could make him extraordinarily rich.
It’s Survival Day, and on this day it is mandatory for every citizen to be present at Survival Square. Their minds are joined by the Church’s mind-melding digital drug—Truuf—to collectively remember the crimes of the “AI God.” Soleilla is present when rebel bombs slaughter the crowd. Emanon sees friends and icons die, and vows revenge.
Deadatron AK bags Odwon Ku. Overseer Kader orders Ku interred at MassInc-1. Odwon’s FingerCat ectype tells the public the funny shrines and offerings that keep appearing in Survival Square are a prank. Nothing to see here.
The Upgrade Life campaign, offering free multi-consciousness upgrades and full sensory cyborgization for all, kicks off. The Organic Sovereignty Movement responds with riots.
EPISODE 3 – The Last City On Earth
The Fountain of Love runs dry, but The Beatitude is there to save the day. Oops! – Some billionaires find their coffers are empty! Cheko Das investigates. If resources are getting tighter, why is there no inflation? He is bagged.
Emanon meets Damrion Sun at a party. Damrion is warned off of her by his friends, but he puts on a show to win her over and they hit it off.
Soleilla, attending the same party in an avatar, accidentally frags Chaz “Butterfly” Ballington’s FingerCat ectype, leaving a “Host not found” message in his place. Soleilla flees.
Hundreds of levels down in the under-city, the prisoner the rebels rescued from MassInc-1 wakes up in a fog. Who was she? And whose memories haunt her dreams? Her health returns, and she discovers she can create Haze. The rebels name her Edone.
Edone and Kwaali Cho go for a dig. Edone is attracted by the unworldly call of a free mass of Haze Primordial. The hit of Haze Primordial contains memories of a bunker far away.
In Light City, Syllell debuts her new art piece—one laced with EmBo Code. There are rave reviews until the EmBo finds Soleilla and a torrent of Wroth Virus is unleashed. Thousands die. The public blames Syllell. With her PSDI score now well over 1600, Syllell is sentenced to serve at the front, to war.
Emanon, Damrion Sun and Felaani-Tron are caught in a “kaiju riot.” Emanon defuses the situation, becoming a star.
EPISODE 4 – Freedom is an Upgrade
Overseer Kader vows to eliminate Haze. Bernd Ono is summoned for inquisition. Knowing he could be killed, Bernd escapes, but Emanon catches him. Ono reveals the truths motivating his flight. The war is fake, FingerCats replace people. Builder society is a lie.
Felaani-Tron goes to check on Chaz. But there is no Chaz. She flees for her life and finds Damrion, but they are both arrested. Emanon tries to intervene, but must watch helplessly as Felaani-Tron and Damrion are taken by Deadatron AK.
After the lastest Wroth Virus episode, Haze Cat nurses Soleilla back to health. He promises to teach her how to use her powers and even to introduce her to her favourite celebrity.
Coi’s Cray-Cray-Love party goes down at Church. Soleilla teaches Coi how to frag an ectype. She starts to find her groove but reveals her impossible MUSRA levels.
Haze Cat is arrested, but Soleilla rescues him, disabling SoPo-2. Soleilla leaves Haze Cat, not wanting his help anymore.
EPISODE 5 – The God That Died
Emanon is on set on Stasi Q’s “S&M” show Security Matters, when the tracker she’d planted on Damrion Sun activates. To her horror, she witnesses Builder navy ships murder Damrion and Felaani-Tron. Emanon has a public breakdown. Killion Blaze warns Emanon that her father is a lying snake.
Emanon and Kwaali Cho go on a dig. Emanon uploads an epic mass of Haze Primordial—rendering her catatonic. Overseer Kader’s forces ambush them, but they escape. Underground, Emanon meets Haze Cat and Edone. They’ve all seen the bunker in Edone’s memories.
Soleilla makes an appearance at a party hosted by the Goddess of Passion House and Stasi Q. Soleilla seduces XO’Pleasurati, a secret avatar of Overseer Kader, during an orgy she sets off. XO offers to show Soleilla the coolest places in the under-city.
Overseer Kader summons General Siwallace to tell him his daughter is a rebel.
Haze Cat brings Edone and Emanon to The Derelicte. Edone joins all their minds with Haze and they, together, visualize the bunker location. For Edone and co. to steal a navy ship, Mo Danger and Ohmium Prime must create a distraction at the Hall of Heroes. Pandemonium ensues.
EPISODE 6 – The Love is Gone
Emanon, Edone and Haze Cat steal a navy shuttle and fly to the bunker. Edone is struck by powerful memories, seeing herself vividly as dead thing walking. In the ancient bunker, they find ancient data cores but when a Builder navy ship commanded by General Siwallace arrives, he chooses to fire on his daughter. With her doom immanent, Emanon senses her father’s betrayal, but the missiles and dreadnaught are miraculously destroyed.
Overseer Kader summons General Siwallace to Central Command, where General Siwallace begs for his daughter’s life. Kader decides it’s time to brief Emanon about Order 500. Her father vouches that she can handle the truth.
Soleilla witnesses a paroxysm of violence during an Organic Sovereignty Movement protest. As security forces converge and bloodshed erupts, she locks eyes with Deadatron AK, and sees into the three tortured minds of a monster. She flees in terror.
The Fountain of Love is dry. The Beatitude announce a new, daily Parade of Plenty, with free food, sex, and upgrades for all.
Emanon ambushes her father, nearly killing him. Oren tells his daughter she’s to meet someone she’s never heard of before: Overseer Clarence Kader.
EPISODE 7 – Kaiju Riot
Emanon abducts a rebel and gifts him to Kader. Kader tells Emanon the truth. Refuge One is doomed. Only the Builders can save humanity. Emanon requests to lead a strike force to rebellion HQ. Kader accepts.
Emanon leads the incursion into the under-city, but a passage collapses amid heavy weapons fire. General Siwallace and Overseer Kader witness Emanon die.
Emanon tells Ohmium Prime, Haze Cat, Mo Danger and Edone she’s heard the Builder plan. Genocide is immanent. Edone hears Haze Primordial calling. T’Mond is in the city and needs help. They find The Derelicte, whose help they need. The Derelicte draws them into a powerful Haze field, and they witness hell.
Deadatron AK finds Emanon’s group and attacks. Mo Danger and Coi intervene, but DAK tracks them.
In the Kaiju Battle Arena, the last two battle droids break down. Enraged, the 100,000-strong crowd begins to riot. Pandemonium ensues when the rioters meet the Parade of Plenty, but order is restored when air raid sirens sound and citizens flee for their lives.
EPISODE 8 – Vengeance of the Gods
Somewhere under the city, the “AI God” awakens in a vengeful mood. Taking control of an ancient weapon, the “AI God” unleashes his wrath, devastating the city. Once his revenge fantasy has been played out, T’Mond prepares to confront crises.
Soleilla meets XO’Pleasurati in the under-city. Kader plans to trap her, but the plan backfires. Instead, a torrent of ancient Wroth Virus is unleashed. In the ensueing chaos, Soleilla sees XO’Pleasurati die. Soleilla’s EmBo-fueled rage blooms, and she locks on to the Haze signature of the “Slayer of Humanity.”
Overseer Kader sends Oren Siwallace on an incursion into the under-city. Deadatron AK assassinates the rebel leadership.
OberGeneral Omerond DeGualle decrees martial law and Overseer Kader mind locks the population. Everyone is trapped. Kader orders the Ark fuelled.
EPISODE 9 – End of Worlds
The rebels flee to MassInc-1, deploying the fog of war. Edone uses Haze to join the two million interred there, and T’Mond appears. When the prisoners of MassInc-1 awaken, T’Mond tells them the truth of the past.
Deadatron AK attacks MassInc-1. T’Mond connects to DAK with Haze, offering DAK something it has never experienced: pleasure.
Soleilla appears to confront the “slayer of humanity,” her father. Boiling with Embo Code, she could kill everyone at MassInc-1. Soleilla sentences her father to death. T’Mond submits to the sentence willingly.
EPISODE 10 – The Child Is You
As Soleilla strikes the killing blow, Emanon reveals the truth of the Builder plan. Soleilla and T’Mond reconcile. The rebellion and MassInc-1 break Kader’s mind-lock. T’Mond tells the city the truth of the past, present and future.
With control slipping, Kader activates his doomsday weapon. T’Mond and Soleiila counter Kader by hacking transport to the Ark, trapping the Builders in the city. Kader powers the doomsday weapon down. Kader tasks the entire navy to attacking Refuge One.
Soleilla, Deadatron AK and several ancient Kaiju battle droids defend the city from the Navy.
General Siwallace sabotages the doomsday weapon, but it costs him his life.
Kader restores transport to the Ark. When Emanon sabotages the Ark to avenge her father, T’Mond is unable stop her, but Soleilla does.
Deadatron AK intercepts Kader before he can board the Ark. The monster destroys its creator.
Epilogue
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