Liminal Worlds

The 'Net went big, in a big way. The greatest integrated digital network the world had ever seen, a fully immersive digital world, complete with fully virtual reality experiences, forums, and social media. It connected the globe in a way that had never been done before. It made the internet of the early 21st century completely obsolete. The world changed, almost overnight. There were only two problems. First, the 'Net had been an accident. When the Cyber-Tek nanotech facility exploded, it polluted the land, air, and water with tiny self-replicating nanite machines. In a short time, they were everywhere, and found within everything. Plants, animals, and soil. The other problem; the nanites were also collective learning machines. The more of them there are, the more intelligent they became. But that wasn't such a bad thing. On top of layers of broadband, satellite, and cellular communication; the nanites found their own home. That is how the 'Net was born. That is where our story begins. Welcome to the late 21st Century.