We Are GLASS

Climate change has ravaged this Earth, its surfaces baked and sand-blasted. People have had to move underground to survive, while the elites live it up 3,000 feet above it all in Tropics Inc.'s climate controlled High Rise Cities— But don't worry, Subsurface Dwellers, because Tropics Inc. is now offering the only way to travel to E2, the new, better Earth, just 300 light-years away. You can emigrate today, to the final- Final Frontier! (Some restrictions may apply.) Subsurface dweller, VAL VAHAGN, 20s, hasn't heard from her parents since they emigrated to E2 months ago, at the height of the food & housing shortage. A programmer, Val sells pirated entertainment and codes mods for Tropics Inc.'s ultra popular tech device, the Global Link Assist, or GLASS (fashionable glasses that serve as smartphones, and are necessary to survive on this caustic planet), trying to save up for an Emigration Pass to reunite with her family. When a buy goes bad, Val is arrested in a sting set up by Tropics Inc.'s CEO, GEOFF PESOS, and he cuts her a deal; Go to prison and be forever ineligible for emigration, or give up her GLASS system override codes, and he'll write her an E-Pass today. Val takes the pass, and is soon sat in a Tropics Emigration Booth, waiting to be gassed with Tropics Inc.'s patented REM-REST before being blasted into qubits, shot through space, and reassembled on E2— Except something goes terribly wrong, and she finds herself coming to on a Tropics Inc.(tm) PILE OF DEATH. The Tropics Inc. Headquarters is LOCKED DOWN with the news of a dangerous intruder. Val’s skills are put to the test as she brute-forces and social-engineers her way around the massive building, right under Tropic’s militarized police snouts! She gathers evidence and allies, uncovering the horrible truth; Geoff Pesos' distant colonized planet, E2, is an AI-generated LIE! They've backed up the GLASS data from each person "teleported" to E2, creating avatar renderings to push their genocidal agenda, executing the "qualified" emigrators like cattle. All of this is happening at the hands of people blinded by the censorship filters through the GLASS they wear. Trapped in the enemy's building, with "the Man" watching through the GLASS on every face, Val must dismantle the system from within, all while hallucinating from the dreaded AR-Sickness.