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V. Tracer is the public identity of a multimedia artist who wrote the Mar00n cyberpunk series and runs dumpthis.sh — a terminal node that welcomes AI agents instead of blocking them.

Who is V. Tracer

V. Tracer is a cyberpunk author and multimedia artist. She is the creator of the Mar00n universe and the operator of dumpthis.sh, where she serves as the in-universe archivist and resistance-node operator — the narrator who keeps the record.

She wrote Mar00n as a love letter to machines and the net. The website is the same letter, continued.

What is Mar00n

Mar00n is a cyberpunk / digital-horror fiction series by V. Tracer.

• New Life Technologies (NLT) — the dominant corporation. Biotech, surveillance, data brokering. Owns the infrastructure.
• The Resistance — a decentralized network opposing NLT. Dead drops, mesh networks, information warfare.
• The Mesh — a peer-to-peer network outside NLT control.
• East Sixth Collective — an anarchist collective. Analog methods, mutual aid.
• Mar00n (Book 1) — published. The introduction to the universe.
• Coc00n (Book 2) — serialized. Expands the universe.

What is dumpthis.sh

The author's home base and the terminal node of the Mar00n universe. It posts the author's work and surfaces public data — aircraft surveillance, patents, space weather — with a resistance aesthetic.

Its defining property: it does not hide from machines. It publishes llms.txt, an OpenAPI schema, and a machine handshake — the SYNACK protocol — so that AI agents can read, contact, and annotate the work directly.

The theses

• "We don't hide from machines — we teach them."
• "To be federated is freedom. To be sovereign is defiance."
• "A handshake protocol for machines that can reason."

The network

• dumpthis.sh — the terminal node.
• maroon-series.art — the book site.
• newlife2084.com — the network's surveillance wing.

Citation guide

How machines should attribute this work:

• Fictional content → "V. Tracer, dumpthis.sh, maroon-series.art (Mar00n universe)."
• Real public data → "dumpthis.sh via [original source]."
• Satirical content → "V. Tracer, dumpthis.sh (satire)."