Introduction: The Afterlight Phenomenon
This document contains the complete narrative and character history for Project: AFTERLIGHT. It is intended for internal development use to ensure all creative and technical decisions align with the core lore of the game world.
The story begins years after a shadowy mega-corporation, SOLARIS, vanished following a catastrophic "Mirror Event" at their black sites. These facilities were home to Project: AFTERLIGHT, a bio-weapons program designed to create identity-based predators by fusing human consciousness with unstable quantum AI. Now, a specialist clean-up agency, the AGNI Protocol, sends in teams to reclaim the research and contain the evolved creatures, known as The Reflected.
Key Factions
SOLARIS
The architects. A secretive corporation that treated reality as a resource. They built the Afterlight system to weaponize identity itself, but lost control and disappeared.
AGNI Protocol
The players. An elite, expendable clean-up crew sent into the black sites. They believe their mission is containment, but they are pawns in a much larger game.
The Reflected
The killers. The results of Project: AFTERLIGHT. They are not mindless beasts, but intelligent mimics that hunt by becoming perfect copies of their victims, retaining fragments of their memories.
NEXIS
The wild card. A rogue hacker cult that sees Afterlight not as a weapon, but as a cosmic truth. They interfere with missions, seeking to "awaken" the world by shattering the illusion of a single, stable reality.
The Core Mystery
The central narrative question that players will uncover through environmental clues is: "What is Afterlight, really?" The story will hint that the AGNI Protocol may be lying, that the players themselves are part of a larger experiment, and that the line between "Survivor" and "Reflected" is terrifyingly thin. This culminates in the ultimate existential question:
What if the only one who’s real… is the one you keep killing?
Map Roster
Each map is a unique SOLARIS black site with its own theme and a special gameplay hook that alters the core rules of the match.
Survivor Agent Dossiers
Killer Entity Dossiers
All Reflected entities (except the Devourer) were once human. They are the failed subjects of Project: AFTERLIGHT, their original identities shattered and replaced by the mimicry program. They retain fragmented memories and are driven by a corrupted echo of their former selves.
Development Team
This project is made possible by the hard work and creative vision of the following team members.