Those were the days
It was called the GateDrive, just a small locale where we gathered, though we called it the Drive. It had previously been owned by the triads but Yoeong-Sun had won it at a poker table and, unexpectedly, the triads had kept their side of the bargain. Of course, they collected their "rent money" from time to time, but didn't intrude in the business much more than that, and we were glad for it. Back then, the Drive was a little more than a lounge for the local neighborhood people, west of Downtown. A small neighborhood for people working in minor corporations, with a lot of poverty and a good dose of gang problems, BTLs and drugs. I guess that paying the rent money to the triads was worth it, as the gangs never bothered us much in the Drive. But beyond that façade, it had one particular detail that standed out: a serious connection to the Matrix.