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 prolonged struggle to control the infrastructure that kept people with high-end neural systems functioning and recognized as persons. Patients depended on Finch Cybernetics for maintenance and continuity of care. Attacks on that network threatened both their bodily function and their ability to remain recognized in social life.
As scarcity deepened, Finch’s clinic arrays, embodiment bridges, and service vaults became valuable targets for powers seeking more than medical facilities. Rival powers and opportunistic raiders attempted to seize them, infiltrate them, or break the network into separate pieces. Finch fought to keep it intact.
Finch presented its defense as protection of bodily dignity and continuity rights. Patients had real reasons to support that claim: they needed the network to keep working. Yet securing the facilities also strengthened Finch’s proprietary control over the bodies it maintained and brought more residents into long-term dependence on Finch-administered care. The campaign protected patients through the same infrastructure that made them harder to separate from the company.