At first, transhumanism seemed like a mirror version of those old-timey crystal-healing nuts who rejected modern medicine-wackos grooving on the energies of the miracle discovery powering all our shiny tek junk.
Used to think I was just as big on tek, back when I was hacking media feeds and jailbreaking police bots in the favelas.
But when they started with all their brain modification and neuroprosthetics, I stopped understanding 'em.
Not that I agreed with the fed crackdown... If someone wanted to disappear up their own interface port and commune with the infinite, I figured that was their business.
Who'd have thought we'd all end up going to war over that bullshit?
My project partner Uma would say Element's the proof of a higher power out there somewhere, trying to help us reach it.
If it really was a sacred gift from the stars, we've wasted it burning down our own home around us.
Hell, I personally designed weapons powered by that stuff.