Root Signing Ceremony

Deep beneath the irradiated ash-wastes of the West Coast, the heavily fortified Vault of El-Segundo stood as one of the two geographically distinct sanctuaries safeguarding the global network's soul, alongside its twin in Culpeper. Plumes of acrid cyber-cense billowed from censers carried by augmented acolytes, filling the subterranean corridors with the holy scent of burning flux. This was the…