“Where flesh met machine, it festered.”
In early 2020, the world was blindsided by a new kind of plague. Dubbed SynFlu, this aggressive bacterial outbreak spread through skin-to-skin contact and quickly earned a deadly reputation for targeting those with synthetic enhancements, medical implants, and cybernetic augmentations.
The infection began as a skin rash around synthetic interfaces but escalated rapidly — causing necrosis, system failure, and septic shock. Fully organic humans weren’t immune either; the bacteria adapted at alarming rates, using even trace levels of synthetic material (from pacemakers to dental fillings) as a foothold.
Governments scrambled. Quarantine zones collapsed. Black clinics burned modded patients alive to contain it. Within three months, SynFlu had killed millions. Some began to fear technology itself.
Salvation came in the form of Nanyte™ therapy — injectable nanobots produced by Cytek Nanodynamics. Though not a cure, the nanites stabilized infected tissue and suppressed bacterial spread. But treatment came at a cost: monthly dependence, corporate oversight, and the rise of Cytek as a global superpower.
The SynFlu Pandemic didn’t just change medicine — it reshaped society. It sparked the biotech crackdown in Europe, led to the Augment Reversal Movement in South America, and created a permanent fear of human-machine integration gone wrong.
Even now, rumors linger that SynFlu wasn’t natural — that it was a test.