From the introduction: A superhero scenario with a hint of cyberpunk. The city of Darwin Bay is two hundred square miles of glass, steel and concrete, built on an island on Pacific Ocean, fifty miles west from San Francisco. It’s a haven and a playground for hungry tech companies, whose gargantuous office towers cast their shadow over the rectangular grid of streets. The city core is for business and entertainment, while the edges are a maze of sprawling factory complexes and port infrastructure. Five million people live in this 24-hour city, from slick corporates, faux-bohemian creatives and billion dollar whiz kids to faceless staffers, gruff robot pilots and the tunnel-dwelling homeless.