Founded in 2006 by Eldon Cyre, a civil engineer obsessed with subterranean transit, the Bore Company began as an ambitious attempt to carve a new circulatory system beneath Nashvegas. Cyre envisioned a city without traffic — goods, data, and people all moving through sleek, automated tunnels below the streets. Investors flocked in, including a young technologist named Victor Valon, who would later become the infamous face of Cytek. At the time, Valon called Bore “the nervous system of the future.”
But the future cracked. Nashvegas was built on porous limestone and waterlogged caverns. Drills struck veins of groundwater faster than they could seal them, and the early stabilizers — concrete laced with prototype nanytes — began to fail in strange, unpredictable ways. The tunnels warped. Entire sections flooded overnight, forming underground lakes where lights still flicker.
In 2059, a catastrophic collapse known as the Deep Leak buried a quarter of the mainline and several workers alive. The Bore Company dissolved within the year. Valon quietly distanced himself, redirecting his fortune and surviving tech patents into Cytek, which would later dominate the Nanyte revolution.
Officially, the tunnels were sealed and forgotten. Unofficially, they became veins of shadow commerce — smugglers, data couriers, and back-alley surgeons carving out a life in the ruins. Some claim the Bore Control AI still hums deep below, trying to complete its last directive: connect every hub.
To this day, pieces of the old logo — a white spiral drilled into black metal — can still be found painted on tunnel walls. A warning, or an invitation.
The Bore Company failed to connect the city.
But it succeeded in something worse: it connected everything that was never meant to meet.