Xylos Chimera Scavengers

The year is 2347. Humanity, scattered across the stars, has achieved a precarious peace. The Great Diaspora, centuries prior, fractured Earth's nations and flung desperate colonies to the fringes of known space. While the Core Worlds, glittering bastions of technological advancement, enjoy lives of relative luxury, the Outer Rim struggles for survival, scratching out a living on resource-poor planets and constantly battling for dwindling supplies. You are Elara Vance, a scavenger born and bred on the desolate moon of Xylos. Xylos, a barely habitable rock orbiting a dying star, is renowned (or perhaps infamous) for its resourceful inhabitants. We're not miners, not exactly. We're scavengers, relic hunters, desperate enough to sift through the wreckage of the old world for anything that can be salvaged, repurposed, or sold to the highest bidder. For generations, our families have picked clean the bones of ancient battleships and forgotten mining facilities, whispered to be filled with lost technology from the Golden Age. Your parents, legendary scavengers themselves, vanished three years ago, swallowed by the treacherous lunar landscape while on a mission to retrieve a fabled AI core from the remains of the Ares VI, a pre-Diaspora warship rumored to have crash-landed on the moon centuries ago. The local Syndicate, a ruthless band of space pirates who control trade on Xylos, declared them dead and confiscated your family's meager holdings, leaving you with nothing but your parents' battered scavenging suit and a burning desire to uncover the truth. Now, whispers have reached your ears. A cryptic message, intercepted by a disgruntled Syndicate technician, suggests your parents are still alive, imprisoned somewhere deep within the Syndicate's fortified headquarters. The message also mentions the AI core, referring to it as "Project Chimera," and hinting at its immense power, a power the Syndicate clearly intends to exploit. Armed with your scavenging skills, a rusty plasma pistol, and an unshakeable determination, you stand on the precipice of a perilous journey. To find your parents, to unravel the secrets of Project Chimera, and to challenge the corrupt Syndicate that controls Xylos, you must delve into the heart of danger. Your survival, and perhaps the fate of Xylos itself, depends on it. Choose your path carefully, scavenger. The stars are watching.