Like Mega Man (Classic) and Mega Man X before it, Battle Network would receive a Compilation Rerelease, announced in 2022 with a release in 2023.

It spawned a sequel series focusing on radio waves and set 200 years in the future, Mega Man Star Force. The series lasted for six main games with a few side games before ending, and is the second series in the Mega Man franchise to reach a proper conclusion. Lan and MegaMan, naturally, have to face these forces off. Viruses are monsters that must be destroyed, and hackers are able to control all of the things mentioned above that the Internet is connected to - even the Mafia is Internet-based.

Since power in this universe is through the Internet, public enemies are those who would conquer or destroy it.

The stars of the series are the initially 10-year-old Lan Hikari and his NetNavi partner, MegaMan.EXE. So they've created helper Artificial Intelligences, called Network Navigators ('NetNavis' or 'Navis' for short). The programming required to run society has gotten so complicated that humans cannot comprehend it by themselves. Everything - cars, refrigerators, toliets, schools, the weather - literally Everything Is Online.

Set 20 Minutes into the Future relative to the early 2000s, everything is completely run by the Internet and life is more-or-less peaceful. Mega Man Battle Network (Rockman.EXE) is a Spin-Off/reimagining of the Mega Man series. Light went into computer networking instead of robotics?

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