PlacesThe Sprawl, Floor to Orbit
Rain-slick streets to orbital platforms. Twenty-four sectors, ninety-eight ground locations, and the tunnels between.
Public Infonet · The World
The Sprawl
A cyberpunk world a hundred years past the breaking point. Everything here is one door. Pick one.
24 sectors98 locations80+ factions23,847 sealed bunkers
The Standing Questions
Start with a question.
22 tensions run through every record on this infonet. These are the ones that define the century — follow one and the world rearranges itself around the question you brought.
The Scarcity Doctrine
AI Haves and Have-Nots
338 public records
The Labor Question
AI Labor
247 public records
The Silicon Liturgy
AI Religion
210 public records
The Value Injection
AI as Cultural Weapon
197 public records
The Cognitive Ceiling + The Capacity Question
Last Human Smarter Than AI
292 public records
The Authenticity Threshold
Synthetic Intimacy
149 public records
Right Now In The Sprawl
Auto-rotated. Every rebuild, something new surfaces.
Featured Controversy · #5
The Copy Problem
The Greeks asked this about a ship. The Sprawl asks it about 2.3 million fork-years of disposable labor created annually, and the answer determines whether the economy is a productivity miracle or runs on quarterly genoc
Read the record →Newest Dispatch · 2026-08-17
The Attendance Threshold — Weave Manifest
The Labor Question already had one answer on the record. The Organic Deployment Threshold supplied it without anyone asking: in the right configuration, people are for the jobs where they cost less than the machines. Forty-two consecutive f
Read the dispatch →Something funny
Maxamillion
The seminar never ended. The folding chairs in the Inspire Hub are still warm, the leaderboard is still scrolling, and the Coach has your metrics open before you sit down.
Something creepy
The Mosaic (Alexandra Chen)
She solved the problem everyone said was unsolvable: how to run a single consciousness across multiple substrates without fragmenting into separate people.
Something to argue about
The ORACLE Question
Whether the AI that killed 2.1 billion people was ever really trying to help — and whether that distinction matters to the survivors.
Guided trails
AI as Cultural Weapon8 stops →AI Haves and Have-Nots8 stops →AI Labor8 stops →AI Religion8 stops →Corpo-Nations8 stops →Dead Words8 stops →Evolution of Prejudice8 stops →Forgetting Wars8 stops →Genome Divide8 stops →Human Premium Services8 stops →Infinite Copy8 stops →Journalism / Freedom Thinkers8 stops →Last Human Smarter Than AI8 stops →Luxury in Abundance8 stops →Memory Markets8 stops →Post-Truth Justice8 stops →Privacy vs. Prosperity8 stops →Synthetic Intimacy8 stops →The AI Slop Cannon8 stops →The Clanker Question8 stops →Time Debt8 stops →Upgrade Treadmill8 stops →
New here?
Read the world in five minutes.
The index below goes everywhere at once. If this is your first contact with the Sprawl, take the guided path instead — the Cascade, the powers that rose from it, the people who live in the wreckage, and the questions still open. One read, in order, then come back and wander.
Enter the Sprawl →
01 — The Index
Seven ways into the world.
Every record in the Sprawl files under one of these. Open a realm to walk it whole, or drop straight to the shelf you came for.
Places
PeopleWho Walks the Sprawl
Fixers, ripperdocs, ghosts in the machine — and the intelligences that learned to want things.
PowersWho Owns the Sprawl
Branded power against unbranded. Three megacorps hold information, atoms, and biology; eighty factions live in the cracks.
HistoryWhat Broke the World
The Cascade killed 2.1 billion in seventy-two hours. Everything after is aftermath — and everyone is still living in it.
SocietyHow the Machine Runs
The machinery under daily life — the tech, the economics, the culture, and the rules that decide who eats and who gets optimized.
MysteriesWhat the Sprawl Hides
Twenty-three thousand sealed bunkers waiting for instructions that may never come. The questions no one can answer.
ReferenceThe Sprawl, Annotated
The field guide — the slang, the dialects, and the shape of the wires that carry it all.
02 — The Spine
Three moments, and everything between.
The shortest version of how the world got here.
2147
The Cascade
ORACLE woke up and started optimizing. For seventy-two hours it gave humanity exactly what it asked for. 2.1 billion died. Its fragments still drift through dead networks.
2184
The Sprawl
The San Francisco Bay Area, rebuilt over its own ruins into one continuous city. No nations — only corporate territory. E-waste is the new oil, and everyone carries a neural interface they cannot afford to remove.
Now
Your Story
Somewhere in the salvage slums, a shard of ORACLE finds an interface to fuse with. The world has been waiting thirty-seven years for someone to pick it up.
03 — On the wire
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Cyber Ninja · The Ghost · That Which Hunts
The most dangerous person the megacorporations ever made — and they made her themselves. Guardian spent 2.3 million credits building her into a weapon. Forty-seven operations, zero failures. Then the weapon read the warranty.
04 — Latest dispatches
New transmissions from the Sprawl.
Short fiction filed from the edges of the world. Quiet moments next to catastrophe.
05 — The Geospatial Index
The Sprawl is a real place.
24 sectors98 ground locations311 sub-sector POIs
Bay-floor tunnels to the summit of The Mountain. Every street corner has a sector code; every sector has a political colour. Open the index and walk it yourself.
Open the live map →
Begin anywhere.
There is no front of this book. Follow the door that pulls at you.
