In the late
2020's eccentric trillionaire Darren Kovacs, nostalgically obsessed with the
80's arcade shoot-‘em-up Xoscullian, spends billions on a super advanced
version of the game.
This version
of Xoskullian becomes self-aware and seizes control of numerous defense systems
nearly setting off an apocalypse trying to recreate its violent futuristic
gameplay.
The renegade
AI is thwarted by a team of special agents. Xoskullian is seemingly destroyed
but survives, cropping up periodically to cause trouble, eventually
contributing to a global crisis that results in the downfall of civilization.
Xoskullian
would seem to be no more in this ruined, primitive earth, but the name is
remembered and deified by various cults that worship a garbled interpretation
of the program.
Perhaps Xoskullian
survives deep in some underground complex... dormant... waiting...
