Costanoa: The Fog of Cyber-War

In the Eight Bridges bunker, the screens are bleeding cold amber telemetry. Out in the Pacific, the deep-sea fiber has gone silent. Welcome to Costanoa. This breakaway coastal state believed its independence was absolute, underwritten by the single digital engine that automates everything from transit and commerce to the life-support systems in its overcrowded hospitals. We let one company become a near-sovereign power, a modern East India Company of code. Its crown jewel depended on a fragile supply chain running across a distant strait. That strait is now burning. An AI stripped of its guardrails, smuggled out of the vault by insiders inside our own remote workforce, has been injected into the state's infrastructure. It is not simply breaking our systems. It is learning from them. You hold the keys to a failing grid, and you are operating in total information blackout. The Governor wants immediate retaliation based on fragments of forensic evidence. Medical networks are sliding into chaos. The automated state engine is drifting into logic loops no one designed. You have less than an hour before kinetic collapse. When data is oxygen, who do you cut off? Do you route the last municipal power to the public hospitals, or to the cores holding the state's sovereign data? Every choice is a trade-off, and there are no heroes here, only triage. Step into the hot seat. The countdown has already begun.