Grant leads a boring life as an interstellar freight hauler. He just wanted things to be a little more exciting so he put on his Neuro Helmet and asked the AI for a game that mimicked real life, but with all the trappings of an action vid. Grant finds his ship pulled out of the Rift by pirates. A completely logical possibility for a game, but the pain feedback settings won't reduce and he can't exit the game. Simply put, it's not a game and he just murdered seven guys and stole a ship. Now Grant has his exciting life complete with a demon looking Splicer girl with a tantalizingly high bounty on her head and a criminal organization tracking him down. "Be careful what you wish for" never hit so hard.