E-ghosts

 Before the Coalescing took place, and merged many an alternate reality together, virtual reality was a major aspect of daily life in your baseline reality. Nearly every household had some brand of Virt-Mask or HoloPod. Besides using these devices to enjoy an escapism that transcends our base senses, the technology played a major roll in the life of the Cubicle Heroes. Cubicle Heroes were the titles of the human workers who constituted the massive communication networks and technical support of the Corps. A popular way to perform this job was called E-commuting. Cubicle Heroes who used a HoloPod to project an E-Form of themselves into the Mega Offices were called E-Commuters, or E-Coms. An E-form is a perfect digital recreation of the user in a HoloPod, and is projected into real space through entangling specific reacurring quantum positions of atoms in pure air, making the atoms glow a soft green in the exact shape of the HoloPod user. These E-forms, aside from being an easier way to toil in a Corp building, were also seen as a better way to experience life in general, to some. E-forms were present in daily life. Anywhere you'd find a normal human enjoying what the world has to offer, you could also find a normal human piloting an E-form from the half alive slumber of a Holo-nap.

Yet, this world doesn't exist anymore. This is The Hyper now. The vast, ever-changing wastelands don't have the old Corps to maintain their mountainous buildings. Yet, E-forms still exist. An oddity of The Hyper, things from different pasts were carried over, and still exist as they had existed. HoloPods were one of these remnants. Some are buried Underground, some lost in the tomb like structures of collapsed Mega Offices and living complexes, others lost in some corner of the new reality. And these HoloPods still function, projecting their contents onto the screen of reality. They're called E-ghosts now. Pale green, vaguely glowing, and varrying greatly in personality and temperament. They roam The Hyper, rarely aware of their real fate, having a body wasting away in some mechanical pod. When the body of these E-ghosts do finally give way to time, the E-ghosts themselves lose what little of themselves they clung to. A wandering digital shell smeared across the atoms of a different reality.