I love your sci-fi description and all, cool. Its impressive for a writer to describe a situation precisley like you've been there.
when life gets too brutal for a human to survive, you either become less human or you perish.
Actually, some do get transformed like a phoenix from it.
If i may ask, what crime did the main character commit that is so popular. Am curious about that.
That was in Metal Fever 1, the story that just ended today after 11 chapters. He stole an entire seafloor data center.