.hack//Prequel Project : PROTOTYPE

"(Opinion, feedbacks, recommendation, and ideas are allowed on the comment below)" .hack Prequel Concept: PROTOTYPE is a spin-off series of dothack and direct-prequel to all dothack series, including .hack//Epitaph of Twilight, .hack//SIGN, and .hack//IMOQ as it is a standalone story to main titles of dothack series, which will be the first Open-World with Third-Person Shooter, Beat'em Up, Hacking, and Stealth genre.

The story takes focus in the world set at the beginning of the 21st century which is where the massive cybercrime taking place in the real world as how the internet network was not too advanced, but become the higher-chance of the group hackers doing a massive cybercrime. The story focuses on the college student with an immersive hacking born in the life of cybercrime, Edward Brock comes involved in not just with Cyber network crime, but also the many conspiracies who working in the shadow for their personal goal, money, and popularity.

Its game will be trilogies story which consists about his journey toward other things that bring him involved in the serious dramatical criminal and open-up the connection between PROTOTYPE and dothack series, available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Steam.

Story Concept Theme
The story bringing an entirely new concept which distinctly connected from Halard and Aura's case about The World and its Epitaph of Twilight as how bringing new lore and ideas comes into mind which ties first to the third season of dothack story.

PROTOTYPE is something that not be complete or perfect, but always just beginning of its story goes bringing many ties within the story, environments, and characters with how much development goes as it progress, it becomes stronger, but also quicker & darker as it goes by.

The story development and its setting will bring the concept of the story about Hacker, CyberCrimes, Moneys, and goal that many characters had goals for their own, but every journey and every life which where it lives in this world is not something about being complete but being incomplete is something that needs to move forward and ties them together as a whole new journey of life, but everything in this life needs a trick in order to succeded their life or die.

PROTOTYPE story will not know its story about black or white, with the measures world in control by the largest company and government, however, through its ordeal inside as the conspiracy became a measure active between High-ranking government with hackers who made a deal to do their dirty work and making the public mass for their own personal goals and opportunity to raise their popularity, by the strong always win against the weak.

The protagonist's story is some sort about his life journey, as at the beginning from his low-rank cybercrime to being hired by the largest company to make a deal to do dirty work, but as how story progressing through he will see the other side of how work is Cruel World was as you see something good that will survive in that world, and his story brings his journey and connection that will tie to many things, including how it connected to the online game, hacker, and network.

All parts of the major story are about CyberCriminal, Journey, Cruel World, Unfairness, Personal Goals, Trust, Hacking, Enjoyment, and Conspiracy. The main story of PROTOTYPE series presenting something that very unravels, but also has its own meaning.

Setting
The PROTOTYPE is set at the beginning of the 21st Century where the internet has increased its popularity with increased ranged access to worldwide which is now able to explore never seen which can be found on the internet, but without any network's protection could lead the higher chance for Massive CyberCrime to be increased in rapid times over 40-67% which means is the day where the Hackers has put things in greater activity in criminal ways.

Not just that, many public was relentless over this course of major CyberCrimes with no governments came to help to solve this case, most of what government focus is on how they made cooperation and conspiracies with Hackers, and showing the world's full of criminals lies within a major bigger group & organization as how the story goes.

The Story will set focus in North America, Germany, and Japan which is a bigger depicted focus to the story within the main title, but the most place of its main story set in Japan, Tokyo.

Main Titles

 * PROTOTYPE: The Rising
 * PROTOTYPE 2: The Deadly Flash
 * PROTOTYPE 3: The Genesis of Ultima
 * PROTOTYPE Type-0
 * PROTOTYPE 4: The Close Curtain of Life

The Connection between PROTOTYPE and dothack.

 * PROTOTYPE take a place in the same universe as the dothack franchise, but this game will be prequel story to all series of dothack.
 * The game of PROTOTYPE will be distinctly connected from Epitaph of Twilights, Halard, and Aura's case, as the prequel series will largely focus about the criminal and harsh life about the Criminal Life of Hackers.
 * Online, Communities, network and the internet becomes a major core to the story, but The Gray World setting is the most important core to the story.
 * Twilight is the most beautiful sunset and favorite scenery to the protagonist, thus also bringing tied to how the words of Twilight become the main focus of the dothack series.
 * It might be possibly a ten years before Pluto Again and Second Network Crisis was taking place.
 * CyberConnect Corporation will become a major part of the story, including the organization MAMA was also made a major secret part of the story behind it.
 * World Network Commission (WNC) didn't exist during that time, but it begins with a small group organization known as Network Commission Security (NCS).
 * At those times, the NCS became part of a contract from the government to track down hackers for their personal reason and it didn't receive any recognition from the public.
 * But, as the story progresses through to the end, and soon enough that NCS will be freed from governments contract and getting their own biggest recognition from the public, thus forming the WNC in the process as their own individual groups of police.
 * Few characters from the dothack series, for example, Halard Hoerwick, Emma Wieland, Dominique Mirabeau, Juniichiro Takaoka, David Steinberg, and Veronica Bain will appear to this game.
 * Although Halard Hoerwick will have a bigger role to Edward Brook's story.
 * Several characters from the dothack series, like Ayaka Amagi, Ryo Sakuma, Kiyoteru Yodogawa, Yuri Kaczynski Seto, Jun Bansyoya, Masato Indou, and more will appear in the side-quest event.
 * In the past, hackers have become the biggest part of group activities for major public and society of the world, but their intention had been categorized in different ways, mindset, and goals.
 * One hacker doing some fun by hacking other computers network and sending the virus to stole their works only to satisfied their enjoyment.
 * The other one doing something illegally by stealing money using a network system or hacking private document, or hacking the security for dirty jobs.
 * Another one is being hired by larger companies, or even the government to do their dirty work or stealing their project, or become an assassin in order to reach their personal gain and popularity.
 * But one exceptional hacker spreading a virus to the network causing the disturbance toward the public and bringing the crisis to the world and its society (Deadly Flash and Virgin Kiss was for example).
 * With all records appearing at the same time in different places, the hacker was considered that times as a criminal act to the world and public.
 * But all changes in 10 years later in 2010 A.D. with group hackers have one goal of fixing the network crisis and restoring the abnormalities to the system network, thus sometimes it changed the public opinion that not all hackers doing the criminal act, there are also hackers who doing a good act. (This event referenced from .hack//IMOQ event).
 * The Conspiracies and Crimes in secret Collaborators along with corruption between Government or High-Ranking Companies with hackers and criminals become major activities back in the 2000s but with several years had passed, with the system security increased thus decreasing corruption within government and hackers.
 * But, Cyber Connect Corporation is the only companies who survived and still doing their dirty works along with major crimes & corruptions.
 * The reason how they managed to escape from being suspected because all evidence disappeared and quietly managed into false evidence thanks to the idea from higher-up, including Veronica Bain.
 * But, another reason behind it, due to CC Corp making the biggest name with a release of the massive success of the online game, THE WORLD thus averting their eyes from being suspicious.
 * Ninjato's story of the past is connected through this game story and how both Edward Brook and Hiroyuki Nakita were connected and tied together as the development goes.
 * PROTOTYPE 3 will takes place in 2007 during Halard's disappearance, and his where doubt has been explained in several dothack titles, but this game will explore more fully regarding his disappearance.
 * Regarding Real Digitalization, Doubleware, MAMA, and more will be presented here.
 * The story theme is about Loss and Despair, as this story is part of the presentation as to how Halard's had gone through after Emma's death, this includes Edward as how he will deal his loss toward someone he loves.
 * PROTOTYPE 4 will takes place in 2010 which is set during .hack//IMOQ event, which told about the Morganna incident as well as the second network crisis, along with Lost One's victim which due to their doings, but this take perspective in the real world as it brings ties together as a whole. As the PROTOTYPE Series ends means the beginning of the dothack series.
 * Although the incident only happens in the online game, this game also has shown perspective in the real world with lots of important faces that will be involved in this story which how it leads to dothack series.
 * PROTOTYPE 4 will catch the theme story about hope and redemption as this game story is opposite from the third game.
 * As it brings a conclusion to Edward Brook's story, doesn't mean his character story truly ends, but it is the end of his role as Edward as he was officially dead from the public, but not in personal way and it means that he has returned to his old name as Hiroyuki as he's retired from his CyberCriminal's life as a hacker, with his new job as a Shopkeeper of the Nakita's Game Arcade.
 * Thus his new life as Hiroyuki Nakita (The Character from .hack//LINK -Chrono Link-) truly begins as part of his new journey as Civilian.
 * Another hint that this story will directly lead-up to dothack third season story, including .hack//LINK -Chrono Link-.