THE EARTH IS DYING,
HUMANS ARE OBSOLETE
Our world is dying. Burned by nuclear wars, and devastated by natural disasters. Betrayed by the infinite greed of humanity.
The new world now does not need muscle power or decent service. It just needs the best engineers, scientists, managers, and entertainers. None of them can be provided by humans anymore. They are obsolete.
EITHER LIVE A LIE
OR DIE FOR THE TRUTH
After the second dark age, states all collapsed and the planet was dominated by multinational mega-corporations. There is no citizenship anymore. You are born as an employee of a corporation or try to survive on your own.
In other words, you shut your eyes and live a life of propaganda or die quickly as a true rebel. In any case, all options are dark.
WE CREATE,
ONLY TO DESTROY AGAIN
In 2507, when Angelicon introduced the first Neo-human, “Iset the Transcendent,” that came out of their much debated project, the world as we know it began its irreversible transformation.
Transcending from the fragile human body to an immortal Neo-human shell with immense capabilities was introduced as the next step in human evolution and a way to adapt to space. Elevating people to synthetic superhumans was something corporations found dangerous to their dominion, however.
Later, as Charles Isambard Drake, the last CEO of Angelicon puts it,
“Men felt weak when they saw my angels started to descend from our skyscrapers to their streets with all their beauty, dread and glory. Weakness pave way for fear, and fear made them cruel.
So many miracles could have been crafted. Alas, what we have engineered was too much to grasp for their little ape brains. Thus, once again, we created only to destroy.”
— Excerpt from his last interview before the Interhuman War ended and he was captured by the Supreme Cartel.
HOPE IS A DANGEROUS THING,
EVEN FOR THE HOPEFUL ONES
Earth is devastated by overpopulation, fallout and radioactive contamination, climate crisis, food and water shortages, scavengers, cannibals and ghouls. Hundreds of millions of desparate and unemployed people, often referred to the Ronins, saw the space colonization as a massive opportunity.
They were trying to avoid the same fate with the billions of hopeless people who live in undercities or poisonous lands, the Forsaken Ones, and and volunteered to populate the stations and buildings, despite the risks.
The mainstream corpo-oriented press called the first wave of colonizers as “the braves” or “the hopeful ones”. Initially the expansion was a success, until they found something... terrorizing.
In 2702 the humanity made its first contact with the infestation. It was phenomenally fast to spread, and entire colonies and spaceports went dark within days. The nightmare was just beginning.
Afterall, hope is a dangerous thing, even for the hopeful ones.
YOU ARE DEAD AND
YOUR STORY IS JUST BEGINNING
Tired of all the deceit, abuse and bullsh*t of the corporations, Phoenix, Aurora and Xander decided to leave the Nexus and settled to “the Hive” in 2715. That starbase was a famous human forward operations station in Cygnus Constellation with a robust Warpdrive network. They built a new life for themselves there, and finally found their much needed peace, only to lose it again.
In 2720 the infestation found its way to the Hive and spread rapidly, annihilated not just the star base but also closeby colonies in days. After losing everything they had and built, Phoenix and his friends were turned to scavengers to survive and ventured deeper sections of Cygnus.
And one day they received a peculiar signal, and after following the source they found something majestic. Daeva, an infamous archangel, was also investigating the beacon and she was accompanied by two infested beings: Odile and Rumbrogon. After a brief skirmish between the parties, Daeva killed them mercilessly.
It turned out that the signal was coming from Iset the Mother’s monumental angel core building. Iset, after waking up from her two centuries long sleep, brought the bodies of Phoenix, Aurora and Xander to her mothership Osiris. The Goddess did not allow their story to be over.
In fact, their story, your story, was just beginning.
THE SIGNAL HAS BEEN FOUND