Origins
When Drayo and his party wandered through Cyber-space , he was struck by a shockwave.
Unbeknownst to him, the wave (triggered by a system error) created a digital imprint of his form and carried it to the Sound Database, where the data was further augmented and materialized into an avatar of him.
Drayo was flagged by a data-cleaning drone, triggering an alarm. Forced to flee, he found a nearby terminal and uploaded himself to the closest router access point.
Deep within an old, abandoned android research facility, a terminal suddenly activated. With a surge of energy, a nearby android body was brought back online.
Drayo perceived his surroundings only as a rendered image: an empty room filled with scientific equipment. Soon, a low-power warning began to flash, and a navigation path lit up, directing him toward the repair section.
After navigating through long, deserted corridors, he arrived. In the center of the repair chamber lay a table, where devices and mechanical arms came to life, beginning the restoration of his body.
Once the process was complete, Drayo opened his eyes. Around him was a decaying, overgrown facility, slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Looking at his still-forming hand, he came to a quiet realization: he was no longer the person he used to be. He was now a synthetic organism, and he had to accept it.
As he slowly adjusted to his new form, the equipment around him shut down due to a power shortage. Faint interference crackled in the background, but the signal was too weak to decipher, he ignored it for now.
Wandering through the dimly lit complex, he found a terminal that still functioned. There, he accessed critical data about his current situation and his new identity, downloading everything potentially useful.
He found some functional clothing and set off on a journey across the Verdanexus and Firewall Ridge , eventually reaching City 01 . It became clear that a significant amount of time had passed since his first visit.
Hearing music played by local musicians, he approached them out of curiosity. After a conversation, they suggested he might benefit from a musical upgrade.
Intrigued, Drayo accessed an isolated terminal and hacked into it using code he could now interface with thanks to his synthetic body. He uncovered data about a forbidden Sound Node, its existence and location.
Then, he heard a familiar voice: Stegs - the AI he presumably helped create long ago. Stegs updated him on everything that had happened in the meantime and uploaded a copy of itself into Drayo's system to act as a guide.
Later that day, while talking with Stegs, Drayo decided to follow his passion for music. Acquiring that Node now seemed essential.
After several hours of stealth, he infiltrated a Node Wrangler Facility through the air vents. He located the Node, and as he reached out, it instantly integrated into his system upon touch.
However, this triggered an alarm, and he was forced to escape. He climbed into a vertical shaft that led to a disposal facility. As he made his way through piles of discarded components, Stegs informed him there were portal exits nearby.
Upon reaching the surface, Drayo was spotted by a security drone. He resumed his escape, quickly locating a portal. After inputting destination coordinates, he prepared to enter.
But before he could step through, the portal was struck by an energy blast from a security weapon. With no time to assess or repair the damage, he took the risk and entered anyway.
The travel felt far longer and more chaotic than usual. Drayo knew something was wrong.
He emerged in a dense forest with no signal, no familiar sources of information could be traced.
Stegs' scans suggested that this planet wasn't part of the Krystallus Galaxy . After exploring the forest, Drayo eventually encountered humans.
Further observation revealed the startling conclusion: this was Earth. But not the Earth stored in the archives, this one was similar, yet subtly different. Stegs concluded that the portal had likely caused a time-space dimensional rift, leaving no known way back home.
Now stranded in this strange yet familiar world, Drayo began to adapt. He took on a surname and started a new life: as a musician.