Hard Light Hologram

For starters

Say goodbye to your body of flesh and blood, shmuck. That one has been stored in the Generation Station space ship orbiting this place, The Dungeon . For safekeeping, they say.

What we are then? We're we. Our consciousness has been copied from our real bodies into these holograms. We're HLH, we're -

Hard Light Holograms.

We're holographic avatars, like game characters - only scentient. Let's say we're projections made out of light, but this light is hard. We're physically here. Structural. Our new bodies are being held together by a strong electrical field conducted through these walls surrounding us. That's why you'll feel it when I can punch you in the gut.

Wayde punches you in the gut, smiling

Don't be such a crybaby. You'll sustain other kinds of injuries in this Dungeon, my friend. Okay back on topic - yes, we're actually here, even though we're just a vessel for our consciousness. We, and that includes your sorry farter, are Galactic Gladiators .

We fight to entertain the masses.

I hope you're ready to die - a lot. And I mean a huge lot. You started off with only 30 Lives, but by winning fights Battle Calls, you'll receive more Lives.

And that means you can die some more. An endless cycle of Lives and death.

— Gabriel Mendez, interrupting gloomily

Yes, thank you Gabriel. Each Arena Battle will be filmed from all angles and streamed back down to Earth. Viewers can even gamble on the outcome of the Battles, and follow our Rankings live.

Don't worry though. Even you will survive each death.

You'll be respawned after each death.

Once you die, your Hard Light body disintegrates. It falls into tiny glass shards and some sort of black bloodlike mucus. Then, the remains evaporate. The electrical grid in the walls catches your consciousness and conducts it back up through tubes and what have you to the Generation Station that I mentioned. Remember?

It passes through your brain, updating everything and then it is brought back in towards the Respawning Chamber as we call it here. Your new HLH body will be generated in there, exactly as it was before. Even your clothes are regenerated exactly the same. You're reconnected with your consciousness, and boom! All good to go - die again! It's a grand system.

Why was this technology created?

The heck if anyone knows. It is said the creator of the technology is now among us here in the Dungeon. They say he created this technology for medical purposes. To equip med bays and ER rooms for training & experimentation purposes. Empty rooms could be edited so one could perform any medical procedure in them. Just load in a Preset and you're golden.

But alas, we're here. In space, shooting, stabbing and lasering each other to death. Only to be respawned again and again. An endless cycle. A vicious technology.

— Gabriel Mendez, killing the mood again

None of us Galactic Gladiators believe that story though. We were sent into space, our bodies were placed in some sort of hibernation inside the Century Spaceship and we were connected to this blood bath with tubes. This Dungeon with its Hard Light Arenas. And so we became HLH fighting machines in our own little "kingdom". So bow for your king, rookie.

So go win and you'll get extra points in this game. You can be a star to the viewers back on Earth if you play your cards right.

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