Video games are harmless fun right? They give you to experience things you would never have been able to in your own capacity. Sure, some of us know how to use a gun, but how many will ever use it against an invading alien race, or against the Nazi’s in WWII? A lot of us can drive a car, but how many will ever race a Lamborghini Gallardo, or a Bugatti Veyron? Against Michael Schumacher or Colin McRae?

But what if there was something more sinister behind game development?

Enter The Conspiracy.

The plot starts in 2006, but The Conspiracy has been running since the dawn of the videogame. Government officials had been trying to find a way to cut costs in training its elite soldiers, and got news of a then small company, Virtual Technologies, that was privately funding its own programme for training people through simulation... shortening training time, lowering expenses and preventing injuries.

The officials liked the programme, and adopted it, taking over its funding. For a while, results were good. Training time was shortened, and subject's skills of tactical decision making and logic were superior to soldiers with regular training. Due to the controversial nature of the training, all subjects that undertook the training were assigned to a black ops group, which left no paper trail, and was funded unknowingly by the taxpayer.

However, as the desired skills got more complex, the software started becoming more technical.

Smaller and smaller amounts of subjects from a voluntary pool were gaining the desired effects of the programming. It appeared the ultra-sonic signal was getting too complicated for the brain to comprehend, and thereby ignored by the subject. Certain subjects had continued to acquire muscle memory through simulation, but too few to keep the newly formed black ops group at optimum capacity.

VirtuaTech was at risk of losing its funding.

By this time, videogames had become a popular pastime throughout the world, and VirtuaTech execs had made an agreement between various game developers and the government to code its programme into videogames with desired skills. These included basic firearm use and safety, military strategy and technique, along with less practised skills such as advanced driving. More sinister aspects are implemented too, including lowering moral standards, for a truly ruthless killing machine...

Upon finding these new recruits, they are drafted into this black ops group... which is entrusted with only the dirtiest of governments jobs, with little information on who the hit is on, giving all parties involved plausible deniability.

So what happens when some of these recruits rebel? More importantly... what happens when one of them still has a conscience?