hack//AI buster, which takes place in 2010. The first chronological installment localized in the US is the first novel. He created his program after the death of the woman he loved, a poetess who began working on an unpublished masterpiece after having what she called a "supernatural experience." This beta version of the game was known as frägment and a few recurring characters had active accounts during said beta test. It was based on a prototype written by a German neurobiologist who has disappeared. Though they'd never admit it, the game's publisher, CyberConnectCorp doesn't fully understand how the game's core program was created. and experiences The World through the perspective of the character. With a computer, a virtual-reality headset, and a gamepad, one becomes a swordsman, magic-user, etc. In response, hacking becomes a capital crime worldwide, and the internet returns to its roots as a communication network for government and military use for the next several years.Įventually, commercial internet access becomes available again, and the release of the first post-crash online game, The World, turns it into an instant craze, with twenty million users joining in the first few years. All except for one, OpenBSD ALTIMIT, which seems to be immune to all computer viruses. On December 24, 2005, a supervirus codenamed "Pluto's Kiss" destroyed all of the world's computer operating systems.
The setting for the series is Twenty Minutes Into the Future, diverging from the real-world timeline beginning in October 2002. The word "Dot" is often written in small print inside the "." to reinforce the proper reading. The slashes are never used when referring to the series as a whole. hack//title and are read as "dot hack title".
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Each installment refers to the others, making this an All There in the Manual series. hack//Legend of the Twilight, are retellings of the same story from differing perspectives. Most of these series contribute to canon while others, such the second anime series. Most of these are character dramas told from the perspective of online gamers playing an MMORPG called "The World," which displays the disturbing tendency to affect the minds of its players, calling into question the nature of human consciousness.
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