The world of Life Plug is split between a hidden simulation and a ruined Earth that has been left to mutate, fracture, and fend for itself. This page covers the lore: how Eden works, what the wasteland has become, and who lives there now.
Eden is a closed virtual reality system created by wealthy ancestors who foresaw collapse. It was designed as a generational refuge, not a temporary escape. The goal was to build a permanent digital world where their heirs could live insulated from the consequences of nuclear devastation.
Inside Eden:
environments are curated and controlled
dangers are superficial
information is filtered, limited, and moderated
digital stewards enforce stability and containment
Glitches are treated as threats, not errors. The system’s priority is preservation, even at the cost of truth.
The stewards are the operators and guardians of Eden. Some are human, some are more like system-level presences, but all serve the same function: keep the simulation intact, keep the bloodline protected, and keep the outside world out of view.
The stewards:
monitor behavioral anomalies like Franco’s code-bending abilities
intervene when people get too close to the edges of the simulation
hunt escape attempts, directly or indirectly
They are not neutral. They represent the will of the people who built Eden.
Outside Eden is a planet reshaped by nuclear fallout. Radiation created pockets of survivable space, zones of intense danger, and entire regions where the rules of biology changed.
In this world, food, shelter, and safety are unevenly distributed, and the people who survived did so by adapting in ways the creators of Eden never intended to see.
The mutants are not a single group but a broad category of altered humans shaped by radiation, environment, and desperation. Some gained abilities that border on supernatural heightened senses, strange physical changes, or unpredictable mental effects.
They include:
those who want what Franco and Page have: clean, unmutated bodies
those who want to trade, bargain, and use outsiders for leverage
those who simply want to survive another day
In a world where radiation has damaged so many, an untouched body is a resource. Some factions see Franco and Page as walking assets to control.
This dynamic turns their very existence into a commodity and adds another layer to the danger they face.
The lore of Life Plug rests on a simple but brutal fact: one group escaped into code; another group was left to mutate in ash. The gap between those two realities is where the story lives.
