 Sol Cutter is a former corporate operative and current small-time data-thief in an unnamed metropolis who acts as a courier for stolen data using a surgically implanted data drive in his brain.As the game opens Cutter is on a job, breaking and entering a corporate office of SoftTech, his former employers, when a shock blasts him across the room.Cutter realizes his mind has been infected with a virus called Burn Cycle which will completely delete his brain, effectively killing him in two hours.