The Future of Sin

The Future of Sin is the first chapter of the Hamlet Multiverse campaign, introducing the first ONE TRUE HAMLET, RoboHamlet. The setting of this story is an alternate universe in which a robotic version of Hamlet—dubbed RoboHamlet—governs Denmark with absolute rule. RoboHamlet rules for thousands of years, establishing a cyberpunk Denmark state that slowly conquers much of the world via aggressive imperialist expansion and a ruthless, robotic police state government. This story covers the political challenges that RoboHamlet will face, along with various cyber-nuclear wars that will substantially re-shape Danish society.

Plot Summary
The story of RoboHamlet begins in medias res as he argues with his top political aide, Robophelia, about how best to deal with Denmark’s sole national enemy: Cyber-Norway, led by the autocrat A.I. Fortinbras v2.1. Cyber-Norway threatens cyberwarfare attacks against Denmark’s capital Neo-Copenhagen, which would effectively cripple their national dataspace’s virtual infrastructure. RoboHamlet insists on deploying brute militaristic force with a top secret line of aerial defense led by General Marcellus and backed by a private military company called the Voltemand-Yutani Corporation, which provides ultralight bomber drones codenamed Gravediggers.

RoboHamlet believes that an overnight blitzkrieg strike would destroy A.I. Fortinbras v2.1’s military and eliminate the foreign threat for good. However, Robophelia urges RoboHamlet to look into continuing the current line of sanctions as well as counter-cyberwarfare tactics by searching for and enlisting Neo-Copenhagen’s elusive top blackhat, a hacker known only as Acid Citizen. Robophelia argues that A.I. Fortinbras v2.1’s own team of militarized hackers could override the controls of RoboHamlet’s proposed Gravedigger drones and turn Neo-Copenhagen’s own military against innocent citizens.