Choose your Path

Chapter 1 Summary

Aydan (every pronoun) is a 174 month old genderfluid-nonbinary-femboy from Korolev City on Lunar Spaceside. As the first autistic child of a wealthy family in control of one of the colonies’ many competing private militias, Aydan’s fate was decided...

Chapter 2 Summary

Aydan of Luna (every pronoun) arrived at Translunar Academy to begin hir training as a technopath. Having come from the Moon and lived their whole life at 0.16G, the first few days were an arduous adjustment to the 0.3G environment of the colony. While...

Chapter 3 Summary

Aydan’s next month at Translunar Academy went smoothly, and the time came for hys first network interface as a technopath candidate. Aydan dissociated into the æther via medicine administered by Ana, the same nurse she met on the spaceflight to TLA....

Chapter 4 Summary

One day Aydan was leaving Network Architecture class when a group of three second year students surrounded them. He found xyr network connection had been cut off. Unable to lose its followers, æ was caught alone outside and technopathically attacked,...

Chapter 5 Summary

Aydan conspired with zir friends Akiko and Zeta to investigate the technopath gathering while keeping Aydan at a safe distance. Akiko, a second year, was able to establish technopathic synchronization with Aydan, allowing hir to experience the sensory...

Chapter 6 Summary

In Introductory Cybersecurity class, Aydan again faced hir frequent training partner, 7☆, who ze hasn’t managed to beat even once, but now at least seemed to be tiring her out a little. Aydan overheard other candidates’ rumors about 7, but considered...

Chapter 7 Summary

The time came for Aydan’s first mid-term exam. Technopath exams are secretive affairs, uniquely designed for each candidate’s strengths and weaknesses. For Aydan, the test was beyond eir skill at technopathy, it was a cooperative challenge with a...

Chapter 8 Summary

At mid-term break, technopath candidates return to their homeworld to receive their next implants. Aydan arrived on the Moon, having made plans with Synth to meet up after her surgery. But in the meantime, Aydan had to deal with being back at home with...

Chapter 9 Summary

Aydan woke up in a hospital bed, having had their first direct neural implant, the technopath’s neurodissociative device. Now equipped with the ability to dissociate into the æther at will, Aydan contacted Synth to follow up on their plans to meet up....

Chapter 10 Summary

As Aydan’s shuttle arrived at Translunar Academy, væ shared some possible parting words with Synthesis, who would not be returning to the Moon after this, their final semester. When wy reached the spaceport exit, xie encountered 7 and Akiko, and...

Chapter 11 Summary

Aydan surfaced from a long ætherwalk, with no memory of what xe experienced. It was already morning and tey had not slept for 48 hours. After ordering some amphetamine from an autokitchen, sie encountered Zeta, who offered to show per a new shortcut to...

Chapter 12 Summary

Aydan, with Synth, Akiko, and Zeta, prepared to execute their planned op, first of all deciding to keep ÆON out of it. ÆON instead gave Aydan a mysterious binary, saying to execute it at its moment of need. Using callsigns and ephemeral keys to conceal...

Chapter 13 Summary

Aydan was abruptly reassociated from an ætherwalk when ÆON predicted an imminent loss of connection. Æ couldn’t determine what happened, only that it felt “cold.” Troubleshooting the issue, Aydan went to check if e was the only one affected. It went...

Chapter 14 Summary

In Social Engineering class, Aydan listened to Professor Nezumi’s lecture, then determined his entire story was a fabrication. Nezumi dismissed the class, giving them a peculiar assignment--”Deceive someone. Someone who trusts you.”

Later, while...

Chapter 15 Summary

By order of Admin Vanitas, Aydan attended hir session with academy Counselor Xi, searching for traces in fær mind of how the mysterious æthercultist Unas managed to communicate with xer from inside a faraday cage. But Xi found herself blocked by Aydan’s...

Chapter 16 Summary

In Practical Arts class, Aydan and 7 trained together in an exercise in technopathically disarming a coilgun. As usual, Aydan was unable to resist 7, nor bypass her defenses. Walking back to their building together, Aydan and 7 talked about 5’s ongoing...