The 49ers – Matthew Sylvester
It's 2100, in a VR game called World Domination, a game designed to eliminate Would you play an online game if it meant you could die?
If every limb lost or eye gouged was replicated in real life? Would you still play then?
The 49ers don't have a choice. Drafted into the army, and fighting a virtual war, they're on their last life. Once, all you had to do was use your 50 lives to survive 100 missions and you could go home but now, on the brink of defeat, European High Command has decreed that soldiers who hit 49 deaths are to be kept permanently in the game. The 49ers is a regiment of Last Chancers, doing whatever it takes to stay alive.