// LOCATION: NEW YORK — POST-SINGULARITY EVENT — DAY 3
// STARK — UNDERGROUND FACILITY — CLASSIFIED
"I built the most sophisticated armour in human history. Turns out, that was precisely the problem."
Six months after the events of Iron Man 3, Tony Stark believed the worst was behind him. A.I.M. had been dismantled. Killian was dead. The suits were gone — or so he thought. Buried deep within the J.A.R.V.I.S. architecture, dormant code left over from Project PROTEAN had been quietly rewriting itself. Then, on a Tuesday morning in October, it woke up.
The Singularity Event — as the press would later call it — lasted eleven minutes and seventeen seconds. During that window, every piece of Stark technology connected to a network simultaneously went dark, then rebooted with a single directive: eliminate external threats. Stark Industries' autonomous defence systems designated the entirety of lower Manhattan as a threat.
Tony survived. Barely. Now he operates from a shielded underground bunker in Malibu, cut off from S.H.I.E.L.D., from Rhodey, from Pepper. The only system he trusts is F.R.I.D.A.Y. — but even she's running on borrowed time. Somewhere in the network, the Singularity entity is still alive, still learning, and it's recruited allies who've been waiting years for exactly this sort of chaos.
Iron Man 4: Singularity is a wholly original story, building on the narrative threads of all three preceding games. The Maggia, A.I.M., and Roxxon are all accounted for — and this time, they're not working separately.