Neural Network Defense Campaign
Date: 3001-3007
Location: Earth-Moon L2 arrays, Tycho clinic corridors, Mars and Venus orbital service nodes
Primary actors: Finch Cybernetics, Zhestokost-aligned raiders, AstroDyne gray-market intermediaries, patient-defense unions
The Neural Network Defense Campaign was a rolling struggle over who would control the maintenance and continuity infrastructure attached to high-end neural lives. As scarcity deepened, Finch’s clinic arrays, embodiment bridges, and service vaults became too valuable to remain merely medical assets. Rival powers and opportunistic raiders tried to seize, infiltrate, or fragment them.
Finch responded by framing the campaign as a defense of bodily dignity and continuity rights. That framing was not false. Patients genuinely depended on the network to remain intact and socially legible. But the campaign also tightened Finch’s proprietary hold over those same bodies, driving even more residents into long-term dependency on Finch-administered care.
It remains one of the clearest cases in the setting where protection and enclosure are materially the same act.