Chapter Two - It Doesn't Say No Parking
Chapter Two - It Doesn't Say No Parking
"In the sprawling metropolises of 2152, the Parking Enforcement Authority wields power rivaling the megacorporations themselves. Equipped with drone fleets, AI surveillance, and jurisdiction over the most valuable commodity—space—they issue fines that bankrupt families and impound vehicles with surgical precision. No one dares contest their authority; to cross them is to risk social credit annihilation and permanent vehicular exile. In a world of endless expansion, their control over where you stop determines if you can ever go.
Starring AI recreations of Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Scarlett Johansson!"
--Trailer for Post-post-post Cyberpunk movie: the Car Cop, coming to theaters June 2057
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There was a problem that I hadn't considered when I bought the Bastion and that was that the damned thing was fucking enormous.
Being big was mostly a feature. It was a transport, and its largeness meant I could fill it with several tons of angry warmech. That was cool as fuck.
What wasn't as cool was trying to find parking.
"C'mon, there's not a single open space?" I complained as I flew a third slow circle around the parking building on the edge of the campus.