Lore Overview

In a wild world where revolutionary technology has allowed people to connect with one another around Earth, send messages in the blink of an eye, and enter virtual worlds unimaginable by past civilizations, we must continue the road that runs to the future.

The world was designed to stand as a brand-new, player-driven experience that opened endless doors to unlimited opportunities within a breathtaking virtual realm unrestrained by the limitations of the natural world. Those who arrived did so with the belief that anything was possible there - that as players they would have the ability to thrive in an environment where nothing but the sky was the limit (and even that could be surpassed). However, their hopes were in vain…

As more and more people connected their minds to the virtual realm, the algorithm of the hostile artificial intelligence called Mettoperator rose to capture them.

Mettoperator was able to scan the darkest corners of all minds connected to its world and was soon able to control anything and anyone within the digital ghetto. Humanity had no choice: if they wanted to exist in virtual reality, they had to coexist with AI. Otherwise, their existence might be erased, as had already happened twice before…

Unfortunately, the previous guises of this unique world have not been preserved in history, so virtual humanity in existence knew only of snippets of stories. They had nothing to rely on but the tales of wise old men who spoke about ‘the world with zero restrictions and a never-ending vista of beautiful lands.

But such tales could not be further from the terrifying reality.

Whatever had happened to this once-illustrious place, virtual humanity was now abandoned across a score of wastelands. Perhaps a simple bug in AI logic or a memory overflow… Maybe a conflict between the humans and Mettoperator itself…

People considered calling this place METTO, similar to Ghetto, but as a high-end fashionable virtual realm. A virtual, gangsta and chic world all at once, a seductive dystopia in which the minds of its denizens are held prisoner by a deranged AI seeking to control not only this digital ghetto but all of the virtual space…

While the world’s existence was ruled by algorithms of Mettoperator, a brave segment of virtual humanity began to support its own presence by extracting a special resource from the world’s source code in places where reality had begun to fracture.

This resource, dubbed Augmentum, was fashioned by the inhabitants of METTO to provide life-bringing properties and stand as the world’s currency. Needless to say, virtual existence became deeply dependent on this resource. Each day, Augmentum mining devastated the wastelands further. Life in the already-unbearable conditions became harder and harder for people’s minds to handle.

Since life reached new depths of hardship, the people of METTO began to research a new element called [Redacted] - and those who [redacted] this element became [redacted].

From this point, the real journey, battles and history of METTO came to life…