The S Unit

The S Unit is a special kind of weapon. They are part of the supposedly defunct WAM Lab, a government funded faction gone rogue. In the dystopian society of 3519, where the government is all too powerful, justice had to be implemented elsewhere.

Once upon a time, war commenced in physical space, but as technology advanced, so did the weapons. After the nuclear outbursts of 2350, countries were too ravaged to continue any form of life. Any survivors were relocated to what was once known as Africa. From there, civilization began to rebuild under one, central government, which slowly became corrupt. Any protestors were suppressed, and surveillance was everywhere. As a result, battles had to be fought in the matrix, where one could escape the government’s eye.

That’s where the S unit came in, back channel operatives that kept balance outside of the law. It consisted of Simulink and Singleton, comrades, of a different sort. Outside the matrix, they were like brothers, but once inside, they were practically one person. Brought together by mutual disillusionment in society, they were recruited by WAM Lab as teens. Simulink grew up working on the farmlands in the Catan (kuh-THAN) province, until his leg was blown off by a government approved bomb testing. WAM recruited him, and gave him a new leg. Now he is part cyborg, his leg becoming a useful tool in battle. He is easily recognizable, as his appearance is that of humans in the early 2000s, before they were genetically altered. He is the only one in the entire population with brown hair, his stride slightly thrown off by his robotic leg. Extremely goal oriented, Simulink dislikes sleep as he finds it a waste of time, maintains a strict diet of half a piece of meat and milk per meal, and keeps track of all the missions in tree drawings.

His partner, Singleton, on the other hand, was extremely laid back. Singleton preferred taking catnaps throughout his free time, and occasionally eating whatever he could find; usually a donut or cereal. He spent the rest of his free time playing matrix simulations, he especially liked tentacle wars, in which he destroyed the bugs sent out by the government into cyberspace. In the Lab, they trained as a single unit due to their similarity in age and snarky attitudes. They often joked around, playing pranks like hanging trees upside down just to throw people off, but when push came to shove, they got the job done.  Within the matrix, Singleton would kill through logic and programming, while Simulink would just smash whatever needed to be destroyed with his cyborg leg. Their differences somehow balanced each other out, and made them an efficient, determined team.

These days they aim to revolutionize the government step by step, avenging their parents’ mysterious disappearances. They follow their own moral code, outside of the law, and at times outside of WAM. They do not know where they will end up, but wherever they go, they’ll go together.