Since this past June, a small number of people here in Mossgate have been gaining strange memories and abilities not their own - superhuman speed, the ability to breathe underwater, skin of an unnatural gray shade - and also the ability to access this Network through virtually any media you care to name. And no one who lacks a Number can see you use this Network, either.

There's no concrete explanation why, but there seems to be some level of intent - and power that it wouldn't make sense for any one person or government to have - behind it.