“For how long this state of War and misery Has lasted we can not know. So much of our history is lost. We do not even know the names of some of the countries that were at the start of the war but we do know how it came to an end.” Speech by Chairwoman Cassanda of Khan Industries on the eve of entering the wormhole.
In the not too distant future mankind has achieved many miraculous things. The most notable is advanced genetic enhancements and modifications, and cybernetic modifications.
At first experimentation into these fields was closely controlled with government safeguards in place to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands and to insure the highest morals were used. The hope for these were to improve peoples lives and help create a better world for all. New limbs for those who had lost them, immunity from disease and abundant food for all.
But as the advancements came faster and faster the ability to keep them from the wrong hands became harder and harder and movements opposed to the technology it self began.
The true horrors started when terrorists and vicious dictators somehow go a hold of the technology. How we can not say for sure but many suspect greedy corporations. Others hackers. But what we know for sure it that once the technology was out in the public domain there was no stopping what happened next.
With super powered terrorists causing mayhem and dictators cybernetically upgrading their soldiers The first Great War of the Future age began. With massive parts of the Middle East, Africa and South America experiencing first hand the full impact of the new technology in war fare. The war was vicious and bloody, especially for the civilians trapped between the tyrants forces and the invading armies. Thousands of refugees fled the land or hid in the wilderness. Many more were forced into warlords forces and became living weapons.Eventually the cities were emptied and any resemblance of order. Even the cruel order of a tyrannical regime, disappeared leaving only the bloodshed.Victory came to the Allied forces but at a terrible cost in lives and resources. All the nations became suspicious of each other and an arms race for the new technology began. Old Friendships evaporated and new grudges arose.With the heightened tensions of a true world war 3 braking out the populous panicked and movements that started during what became known as The Tyrant Wars became powerful forces.
There were those that believed in maintaining the “purity of the human form” treating anyone with enhancements or modifications as less then human.
There were those that believed in transcending humans physical frailty ether through genetic enhancements or cybernetic modifications whether people wanted them or not.
Others such as big businesses wanted to use it all for their own purpose.
Such powerful and more often then not violent groups caused their governments to crack down on them helping the cycle of violence and chaos further
In the end these unstable elements and the inability for the nations to unify together caused the 3rd World War. This war was not only between the worlds nations but also civil wars inside them as well. As the oppressed group declared open warfare on any that didn’t join them.
With total anarchy many people went with whom ever would except them and offer them protection. These poor souls fed the more extreme fractions and often became little more then slaves in a cult.
As the War carried on and the nations resorted to using everything they had at their disposal including nuclear weaponry a small group of scientist from all around the world joined up and in secret devised a way to end the War and save the world.
The Eden project as their hopes and after countless years they succeeded. Sending an invitation to representatives of all the world fractions they managed to broker a cease-fire while they explained their plan.
They had discovered a way to create stable worm holes to other dimensions and they had found a near infinite universes that contained Earths that had not been ruined by humans. Earths that had in fact not evolved humans or sentient life forms at all but were perfect Edens.
The plan was for every fractions to move to their own Earth leaving the Scientist group as the only ones on Earth prime. They would maintain the worm holes and repair the damage done to earth prime while acting as intermediaries to the other fractions.
How ever the fractions were too distrustful and instead a compromise was made. To see if the worlds would be habitable and that the worm holes could be maintained. The first few worlds would be populated by an expedition from several different fractions. (five per world was the final agreement)they would explore and live in the new world for a couple of years and if everything worked out then they would move the entirety of their forces to a new world.
“We are part of one of these expeditions. The Enclave of the Bear. The Imperial Balkania, The Saharan Republic , Die Mechaniker and Khan Industries. We travel to this new World together. This new world symbolising a new start for all of us. A new hope for redemption from the sins of the past. And the beginning of a new age of peace” Chairwoman Cassanda of The Khan Industries on the eve of entering the wormhole. Six months before she declared War.
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