Vigil: Inferno Season

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After the Cataclysm nearly wiped out humanity, the remnants survived in Havens: city-sized constructs built to reboot society and usher in a new age of mankind.

However, the new age was not the type the architects had envisioned. The same greed and lust for power that existed before the Cataclysm resurfaced, and the Havens quickly became quagmires of political and economic conflict that threatened to destroy the future envisioned by the Haven's founders.

This is the world of Jett Wolfe, a man awakened from a grim past to a darker future. A man without a purpose. But when a masked vigilante dies saving his life, Jett becomes a man with a mission. He takes up the mantle of a cyber knight in a city without hope. When your life is on the line, and there is no one to call, look to the skyline. You just might see a new breed of hero.

Jett Wolfe is…

Good evening, Neo-Yorkers. You're with Cam Danvers on another NYN Fast Break. It has been nearly six months since the riots of last winter, but the city still feels like it's reeling from the aftereffects. And the current conditions aren't helping. The forecast is more record-breaking heat with no relief in sight, which will undoubtedly only worsen conditions for a city on edge. Violent crime has exploded in the Five Districts with turf war battles between rival syndicates, and vigilante activity continues to rise as common citizens are inspired by the reported reappearance of Vigil, Neo York's self-appointed protector. It has been nearly twenty years since his last reported sighting, which means either a senior citizen is beating criminals senseless, or the person currently in the cyber-suit is a copycat who adopted the mantle.

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