As the Von Neumann Revolution swept across the Earth, the already blurred ontological boundary between the real and the unreal became completely non-existent. There was no difference between a human being and an AI, since both types of entities existed in the same infosphere, influencing the physical world with the same nanotechnological devices. Creating physical forms, copying personalities, or transferring consciousness beame as natural as breathing, and therefore most technological artifacts became meaningless. Since there was no more need for most citizens to physically live in cities, they were only synthesised from nanotechnology when needed; one type of such a synthetised "body" was the Autowar. The Autowars worked on the frontier of the late 26th century, being completely physical and only remotely connected to their Nanospheres. Their job was to bring the transhumanity back into the physical Earth and master it - be it natural landscape or enemy forces - as needed by the system. In a way, the history had come full circle.