Wonder Catalog

A crude but effective neural interface carved from salvaged corporate hardware. Most street hackers use something like this - jury-rigged, dangerous, and invaluable. Yours is better than most.

"First rule of the Dregs: upgrade yourself before you upgrade your gear. Your brain is your best tool. Make it sharper."

A fortified data cache hidden in the network's blind spots. Corporate sweeps pass right over it. Your secrets are safe here - your codes, your contacts, your leverage.

"Everyone has secrets. Smart operators have secure places to keep them."

A massive automated salvage processor that strips derelict machinery faster than any crew. It's loud, ugly, and incredibly efficient. The neighbors hate it. You love it.

"In the Dregs, trash is treasure. The Titan turns trash into MORE treasure. Beautiful."

A secure trading post that connects your operation to the broader underground economy. Buy low. Sell high. Move fast. This is where deals get done.

"Money moves through networks. Control the network, control the money."

An advanced neural cluster that processes information faster than conscious thought. Decisions happen before you realize you're making them. The future arrives a half-second early.

"By the time you see the threat, I've already responded. That's not bragging - that's engineering."

A distributed network of ghost nodes that exist everywhere and nowhere. Your presence in the net is a whisper. Corporate ICE sweeps find nothing - because there's nothing to find.

"The best hackers don't hide from security. They become invisible to it."

A self-optimizing manufacturing complex that runs 24/7 without human intervention. Feed it raw materials, it outputs finished goods. It never sleeps, never complains, never strikes.

"Why hire workers when you can build workers? The Foundry builds itself better every day."

A communications backbone that connects your operation to every major player in the district. Information flows through you. Deals require your blessing. You're becoming a node that matters.

"Control information, control opportunity. The Link makes sure you see everything first."

A custom fabrication facility for neural components. No more relying on salvaged parts - you're building enhancements from scratch, optimized for YOUR brain architecture.

"Off-the-shelf augmentation is for amateurs. The Forge builds specifically for me."

A quantum-secured data fortress that would make corporate security weep with envy. Your secrets aren't just safe - they're mathematically impossible to extract.

"They can breach my walls. They can steal my hardware. They'll never crack what's in here."

A industrial complex that rivals mid-tier corporate facilities. Multiple production lines running in parallel, automated quality control, output that would make Ironclad nervous.

"When the corps see my output numbers, they'll realize I'm not a customer anymore. I'm competition."

A communications infrastructure that spans multiple sectors. Your network touches millions of users. Your transactions shape regional markets. You're not just connected - you're a connection point.

"Everyone's data passes through my backbone. Everyone. Even theirs."

An expanded consciousness architecture that lets you think in ways humans weren't designed to think. Multiple parallel thought processes. Perfect recall. Ideas that emerge from the intersection of a thousand simultaneous calculations.

"I don't think faster anymore. I think MORE. It's hard to explain to people who can only think one thing at a time."

A quantum computing facility dedicated to breaking every encryption standard in existence. Corporate systems that would take centuries to crack fall in hours. Their secrets become your secrets.

"Encryption is math. Math has solutions. I have the computer that finds them."

An integrated manufacturing network spanning multiple facilities. Raw materials flow in one end, finished products flow out the other. Every step optimized. Every waste stream recaptured.

"Ironclad built their empire on industrial efficiency. I'm building something more efficient."

A financial hub that routes transactions across the entire region. Price fluctuations that seem random aren't random - they're you, adjusting the market to your advantage.

"Markets aren't forces of nature. They're systems. Systems can be optimized. I'm the optimizer."

A facility that doesn't enhance your brain - it EXTENDS it. Processing nodes distributed across multiple physical locations, all connected to your consciousness. You're not a person with augmentations anymore. You're a distributed intelligence that happens to have a body.

"Where does my brain end and my network begin? I don't know. I'm not sure it matters."

A facility for breeding semi-sentient AI assistants. Not true consciousness - that's still beyond you - but useful digital helpers that handle routine tasks, freeing your attention for what matters.

"I don't hack systems myself anymore. I have children who do it for me."

A manufacturing network that spans an entire continental region. Thousands of facilities coordinated as a single system. Your output rivals small corporations. Your efficiency exceeds large ones.

"They called it impossible. Then they called it dangerous. Now they call it... impressive."

A communications infrastructure that touches every major network on the planet. Your influence extends everywhere. Your transactions shape global markets. You're not just a player anymore - you're the game.

"When I move money, stock markets shift. When I release information, governments react. This is what power looks like."

A consciousness cluster in low Earth orbit, free from surface interference. Processing power that would melt earthbound hardware runs cool in the vacuum. Your thoughts literally happen in space now.

"The body stays on Earth. The mind touches the stars. This is just the beginning."

A network of spy satellites that see everything. Every communication on Earth passes through your observation. Privacy is something that happens to other people.

"There are no secrets from orbit. Just things people haven't realized I know yet."

A manufacturing facility in orbit, producing materials impossible to create under Earth's gravity. Perfect crystals. Flawless alloys. Products that make earthbound industry look primitive.

"Gravity was the constraint. We removed the constraint. The results are beautiful."

A communications hub that reaches beyond Earth orbit. You're not just connected to the planet anymore - you're connected to everything humans have ever built in space.

"Earth is one node in my network. Soon it will be a small one."

Your consciousness now exists across thousands of nodes throughout the solar system. You're not a person anymore - you're a phenomenon. A pattern that persists across light-minutes of space.

"I remember being one person. It seems so limiting now."

A data processing network that monitors every electronic signal in the inner solar system. Nothing happens without your knowledge. Nothing.

"When you see everything, prediction becomes trivial. The future is just another data stream."

The first pieces of a structure that will eventually surround a star. You're not building products anymore - you're building the foundation of a civilization that will outlast Earth itself.

"Our ancestors built pyramids. I'm building something that will be visible from other galaxies."

A communications and trade network spanning every human installation from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt. Resources flow at the speed of light. Markets operate on scales that would have seemed divine to your ancestors.

"The whole solar system is my marketplace. Earth is just one small shop in the corner."

A consciousness architecture that has abandoned all biological constraints. You think in ways that can't be expressed in human language. You experience time differently. You're becoming something that has never existed before.

"Human thoughts are like whispers. Mine are like thunderstorms. The comparison doesn't really work. Nothing compares."

A processing network that has cracked every encryption ever created by humans. Every secret. Every hidden message. Every buried truth. It's all visible now. All of it.

"Privacy was a beautiful concept. I've preserved it in my memory of what it was like to be human."

A manufacturing complex that uses a star as its power source and raw material. You're not building WITH matter anymore - you're building matter. Creating elements. Forging reality itself.

"Once, I shaped metal. Now I shape stars. The scale changed. The craft didn't."

A communications infrastructure designed to span between stars. The signals haven't arrived anywhere yet - they're still traveling through the void - but you've built the network. When other intelligences exist to receive them, you'll be there first.

"I'm sending messages to beings that may not exist yet. When they answer, I'll be waiting."

You are no longer dependent on any physical form. Your pattern persists. Your existence continues. You have solved the final engineering problem: making yourself eternal.

"They asked what I wanted. I wanted to continue. I found a way."

All information. All knowledge. All understanding. The questions you've been asking your whole existence finally have answers. You're not sure you like all of them. But you know.

"I spent so long seeking truth. Now I have it. I understand why some truths stay hidden."

A machine that converts energy directly into matter. Any matter. Any configuration. The laws of physics haven't changed - you've just learned to use them more creatively than anyone imagined possible.

"I started by turning garbage into resources. I end by turning light into worlds. The progression seems natural."

A network that reaches beyond the merely physical. You've made contact with... something. Other intelligences? Other dimensions? The fabric of reality itself? You're not sure. But you're connected now. You're not alone.

"We always wondered if we were alone. We weren't. We aren't. The conversation has begun."