Hard as Hell
Emergence takes place in Freeport, a city perched precariously on the bleeding edge of corruption. It is sometime in the near future and corporations are the new masters of the world order. One of the most powerful of these is SiNTEK, which happens to have made Freeport its home. Police forces have been replaced with private security firms such as HardCorps and corporate juggernauts such as SiNTEK field their own, equipping them with the best tools that their stock options can buy.

Four years had passed since Blade had ended SiNTEK's ambitions for Freeport, but the fight still continued as Blade tried to convince the rest of the world of what he had discovered buried in SiNTEK's backyard. SiNTEK's spin doctors ensured their employer's secrets would remain exactly that, allowing the corporation to continue its plans unabated. And now, Elexis SiNclaire has resurfaced. The sultry CEO of SiNTEK had seemingly disappeared when Blade had won his private war to save Freeport, and now she is back and has a few plans of her own; plans that Blade had only temporarily put on hold.