Lekiel
Two Thousand Club
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❖ C A S S I O P E I A ❖
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Your Excellency, Chairman of the United Nations Security Council, Alden Khamal, esteemed leaders, honored representatives, ladies, and gentlemen. As you all may well know, ten years ago, our world... Earth, as we fondly call her... was on the brink of destruction. We were on the cusp of annihilation, not by any force of nature or divine wrath, but... by our own hands. You could say we were total dickheads back then, if you'll excuse the language.
(A low rumble of pained chuckles could be heard)
Be as it were, perhaps we needed to taste the ashes of bitterness to finally realize how truly wrong we were! All of us! Each one a culprit, the accused! Preying on ourselves! Our future-!
But I digress. This is enough to remind us of our past. We... we have awoken from this nightmare of our own making. We have learned our lesson, and together as one united people, inspired by my late mentor and Chairman Alden's predecessor, Professor Dr. Erina Mirai, we have all come together and pledged our resources and riches to one cause. Project Mirai Eternum, an infinite future for mankind!
(Resounding applause)
We all have waited patiently since that momentous day... and we have lost much in between, including the late Dr. Mirai.
I have to say... it was especially difficult for me. To all of us... she was our beacon. Our watchtower, reminding us that we exist for so much more than petty squabbles. That there is so much our out there for us... To me... She was more than a mentor... she was my friend, my wife... and mother of my child...
(Poignant pause)
Come on up here sweety... don't worry... It's just to say hello... There we go, go on, give them a wave!
(low rumble of good-hearted laughter)
You must be wondering, why in the world have I brought my daughter to such an occasion? Well... if you'll allow me... cause, cause well... you can't just reveal such huge things without a little side-tracking!
(Polite laughter)
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[/div]Every Friday night in the month of November... Cassy here, puts on her warm jacket, jumps into the backseat of the jeep and together, she and I take a little ride that lasts no longer than twenty minutes. We find a little park, just far enough from the city where it's dark, we stop... head out to a patch of grass, and look up to the sky. A sky... not unlike this one.
(Rumble of machinery and growing whispers)
If you'll look above, adjust to approximately 598 square degrees and 182 millisteradians..... it's right there for those of you who don't know.
(Booming laughter)
See that skewed 'W' right there? That... is the Seated Queen, Cassiopeia. Yes, we named our daughter after her.
For those unfamiliar with the legends, Cassiopeia was a very beautiful queen. Together with King Cepheus of Aethiopia, they had a daughter called Andromeda who legends say, was as beautiful as her mother. Now Cassiopeia, couldn't keep her mouth shut. She proclaimed herself and her daughter more beautiful than the Nereids- uhm, basically the sea god, Poseidon's, handpicked supermodels. As you can imagine, Poseidon wasn't too happy about that. He threatened to destroy the Aethiopians until the King agreed to sacrifice Andromeda to the sea. Luckily for the princess, she was rescued by a dashing hero. Unfortunately for the Queen, Poseidon punished her by sending her into the heavens, spinning around her throne for all eternity. No doubt, this was a lesson the ancients used to discourage people from challenging the 'gods'. The unattainable transcended limit to which all men are bound under...
Within Cassiopeia, lies what astronomers label as 3C 10, or Tycho's supernova remnant. First observed in 1572 by Tycho Brahe, it is the remnant of a supernova that occurred a few hundred years prior and has earned the distinction of being the strongest radio source observable outside the Solar System. Its signals, have been like an extraterrestrial entity providing us with invaluable insight into our research. Much of what I will reveal today, we owe to Cassiopeia...
Ladies and gentlemen... I am here today to tell you that the time has come! The time where man is no longer bound by any limit, only those which we put upon ourselves! I am here to tell you, that within your lifetime... we will not put man on the surface of Neptune, or even Pluto. We... will visit our Celestial Mentor. Cassiopeia.
(Awed voices and excited murmuring)
We call it Graviton Warping. Allow me to demonstrate... you can go back to your seat now Cassy.
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[/div]If you'll observe this surface..- yes, I modified my daughter's trampoline thanks. Imagine the surface of this cloth as the continuum of space. Now if I... place this... heavy ball... in the center like so... it causes a dip in the space continuum, represented by the indented cloth. Placing... more balls... even if I send them spinning around... would cause them to be slowly attracted to the center. This... is gravity, an inexorable force of attraction spanning lightyears wide if the body is massive enough. We've known that for years now... But, did you notice what happened to the cloth as soon as I put the ball on it? It folded inwards? Correct... but more importantly, it folded instantly. This, my fellow men, happens all around us on a dimension up until now, we were unable to see. We call it, the Graviton Thread... and this...
(More excited murmuring and the sound of machinery whirring)
This... is the Graviton Drive. Ladies and gentlemen... we can now go faster than light!
(Resounding applause)
Mirai Eternum Convention, November 5th, 2057.
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[/div]Year 2257
It is the Year 2257. Half a millennia since man vowed to shape his own destiny. Their unified resolute drive to no longer be slaves to the frivolous whims and woes of short-sightedness accelerated the evolution of man as a species during the first few centuries. During the Mirai Eternum Convention of 2057, mankind came to the unanimous conclusion that Earth was too small for mankind's prodigious appetite for progress. After a tumultuous event known now as the Awakening War, the leaders of man decided that they would pour all their resources and expertise together, forging a new path. One that would take their destinies to the stars. It was man's defiance against the heavens, that nothing shall limit them any longer.
The development of the Graviton Drive by Professor Dr. Edmund Briggs was the catalyst that they needed. By resonating with hypermassive gravitational fields called Exigent Nodes, spaceships could be latched onto the unseen space-time dimension of Graviton Threads, cutting through the fabric of space allowing them.. us to traverse immense distances at speeds faster than light. Astounding as it were, once the Graviton Drive was perfected, the closest galaxies could be reached within a few standard days. The Pandora's Box had been opened. Nevertheless, as the twentieth-century physicist Enrico Fermi predicted, mankind was indeed alone. Or at least, the only form of intelligent life.
Somehow... somewhere, we'd rolled the impossible dice, and came out victorious. A champion whose prize stretched from the distant Pieces-Cetus Superclusters to the starless depths of the Bootes Void. Alone in the incomprehensible vastness of space. It was a sobering thought. But one which we grew to revel with. For there was nothing to hold us back! Our civilization expanded across the stars, learning more with every step we took on alien soil. Expansion. Exploration. We took on the mantle of life. The burden of shaping our very own future. We learned much during those glorious years. Learned that while we were alone, there were Others that came before. Ghostly monoliths, gargantuan superstructures from thousands, if not millions of years before dotted the galaxies. But from them and their signatures, indelible by time, we learned nothing.
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[/div]The Mirai Eternum. Named aptly after the most salient event in our history. It was a starcruiser of unparalleled disposition. Every brilliant tech mankind's brightest minds could think of was onboard that ship. Forged from the hangers of our largest starport in the Hoag's Galaxy, perched on the edge of the Deepfield. It was a monument of how far we'd come. And how far we would go. It was also the mark of our End.
Year 2267
Year 2267. Barely ten standard years after the Mirai Eternum left port on its maiden voyage. We received news that they'd reached the Edge. Then they went dark. We lost all communication with the starcruiser. The silence dragged on for weeks. Then months. Finally, nearly a year later we received a response. But it was not what we could've anticipated. [div class="imageBorder"]
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We call it, The Shattering. A single cataclysmic event, it spread throughout our entire civilization faster than even our most powerful Starsurfers. A single wave of iridescent energy and we became undone. There was no stopping it, even if we could react in time. They said it was an interlocking myriad of resonating waves, vibrating at the perfect frequency to dismantle one thing. Us.
Well... most of us. By the time its echoing hum faded from the ears of the farthest human, only a fraction of our once vast population throughout the universe remained. To this day, we don't know why those that survived... survived. But even so, those that survived The Shattering, were left barren. Infertile. Of course, by that time, biological gestation was no longer the only method for which we could procreate. But even so, no matter what we did, even the birthing pods yielded no life. Not even the Genus Aurealate and their peerless research into the mysteries of our biological coding could reverse the unseen. Not since the fabled Awakening Wars had mankind faced such an insurmountable quandary. [div class="imageBorder"]
[/div]But even brought to its knees, the unquenchable will of our spirit that had once conquered the odds to give us life, would once again carry us towards the new chapter of our universe.
Year 2557
Year 2557. Present. Three hundred years after The Shattering, mankind continues to live on. Scattered across the known universe, we have taken refuge in artificial worlds build within Gravitational Singularities. Born from the collapse of supermassive blackholes, we exist outside of the standard space continuum. Singularities were very very rare, even in the immense numbers attributed to the known universe. Each no larger than the little blue planet our kind first breathed life. But here, we have found the Soulstream. And it is here, where we can once again... *ahem* reproduce.
There's just one problem.
Nobody dreams anymore....
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[/div]Congratulations! You've stuck through my tediously long and banal exposition! What's that? Where do we fit in you ask? How did we meet? What happens next?
Have you forgotten already?
You are a perfectly engineered specimen of the Aurealate from the Andlang Singularity, in compliance with PHG Phenotype KL22814-J-72H-THFR0GHY. A combination of carefully selective breeding, instruction and pedagogy have yielded a most refined and optimum form for the tasks required to maintain its part in the Order. For which you are classified for Middle-upper executive ruling class of Arcology 52B.
Your ship crashed due to the Halokontar Pulsewaves propagated by the imminent collapse of super-singularity HDC76-C. Your ship's Graviton Drive remained functioning, however your Ancilla was lost during the crash. Your friend and fellow Aurealate, Vexianna of PHG Phenotype GH339005-L-72H-HHFR0JYU of the research class was most suitable to attempt to bear the load of the computational calculations required by the ship's navigational computer to coordinate the Graviton Warp away from HDC76-C. Under normal circumstances, your colleague would've easily succeeded. Unfortunately, the Halokontar Pulsewaves proved too great an unknown to compute, instigating a dangerous pitfall for even experienced Ancillae by way of an infinite loop of Delphic Fractalletions. You attempted to disengage your colleague, but it was too late. Nevertheless, being synchronized with the ship's systems for even that brief moment allowed her to alert you to another signal not far - on the Laniakea Scale of Relativity - from where you crashed.
You attempted the crossing and succeeded, at the cost of your ship. This is where... you found me.
You saved me.
And in return, I saved us...
[div class=mainSubheader] HEY THERE! [/div] So... this story has been sitting around in my head for quite sometime, and would never have seen the light of your screen had it not been for that one movie which I really think you should watch! ALITA Battle Angel!!!
Yes, I was hugely inspired by that movie, because although I'd never even heard of the universe before (honest) alot of what I saw was exactly what I had in mind for my character. I'd say, my experiences from other RPs, books, art, music and games impacted me more; just putting this out here because I don't want this to be mistaken for a fandom of sorts!
Our characters will be a part of the remnant of civilization that persisted after the event known as The Shattering. Living in various 'earth-sized' singularities outside of normal space, mankind has yet to fully recover from the damage he suffered during the universe-wide cataclysmic event. Though now able to procreate, reproducing (by any means) has become largely difficult leading to the dissolution of what was once a lasting peace during our finest era. Thus, it is not uncommon for galactic wars to erupt between Singularity Worlds in order to gain closer access to the Soulstream; a giant monolith of unfathomable height, said to be the source of all life and a relic from the depths of the universe's past. But another problem yet persists, even centuries after the emergence of Singularity Worlds. No one has ever dreamed. One can think... but the idea of seeing images, of whimsy, of envisioning a time beyond the now when you close your eyes is gone. A niggling minor problem at first, it has resulted in one major fault in our species. Progress stagnated. We could no longer move beyond where we were.
It has come to a point wherein sects of humanity have devoted themselves wholly to the pursuit and research of dreams, sending out scores of men to round up anyone who so much as sees a glimpse of something beyond their memories; these people have become known as the Einherjar. And they will do whatever it takes, to fulfill their duty.
To be honest, unlike most of my other RPs, I do not have an end in sight! Though you'll find quite a bit more of lore to this world (in the next section) I plan to leave alot of this story free reign. I want it to be coloured not just by me, but by you. It's a huge world (spans the known universe) and I am in no hurry to begin, as I'm actually fairly caught up with a few RPs of my own. I am just writing it here now, because my muse is tickling and I don't want to waste it!
A little of what I expect: Someone with extreme detail when it comes to writing. Not because I want every post to be a novel, heck I don't mind a single paragraph reply, but I need to know that you're capable! That said, there are plenty of people who just want to brute their ideas in, even if it clashes with what I have in mind. If you're one of those, please do make your own Roleplay (sorry if this sounds harsh). I'm really looking for someone I can really sync with who can see the future I envisioned, and build on it! There will be action, exploration, and actually, quite a bit of boring exposition (slice-of-future-life). Fairwarning
If the RP does eventually start, all I require is a post once every 5 days or so. If life calls and you're afraid you'll need more time, answer the call, just don't forget to drop me a holler. I'd appreciate it. I also hope you don't mind playing a hetero/bi male character (idc how you associate yourself irl) and don't mind a little romance (cause I'm that kind of person). Hee...
I'll only be accepting one person, for now this will be basically a pilot run and my way of finding a co-GM! Once we've reached a more established stage, I can open it up to a small group!
[/div][/div] [div class="scrollBox five"] [div class=mainHeader] ❖ Universe Archives ❖ [/div] [div class=mainSubheader] The Singularities of Men [/div] [div class="mainText indent"]
ANDLANG
Ruling Government: Aurealate Consul
Population Size: 7.7 bil
Core Tech: Genetic & Biological Engineering
Ruling Class Descending: Aurealus > Consul > Tribunus > Signifer > Primus (Arcology heads) > Legatus > Domina > Praetor > Virtus (> Classless)
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[div class=mainText] The Golden Singularity. Andlang was the first Singularity World to be established, due to its close proximity to the Soulstream, connected by a persistent Einstein-Rosen Bridge. As such, Andlang boasts one of the highest number of successful birthrates among all Singularity Worlds; though the population size is kept under strict monitoring by the Aurealate Consul.
Andlang is a highly technologically advanced world, though its society is structured by very strict class systems. All of its population (except the shunned Classless) are drawn from a predetermined gene pool, carefully selected such that each individual is optimized to play its role in society to perfection. Marriage between classes is especially frowned upon, though not illegal unless the gap is wider than 2 class tiers. Nevertheless, if such a union occurs, the new family will be relegated to the level of the lower partner.
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[/div]Of all the Singularity Worlds, except for Eljudnir, the Aurealate of Andlang abhor the mix of humankind and machine the most, taking the warnings of the Briggs-Heisenhower Postulate very seriously almost to the point of fanaticism. They strictly prohibit any form of cybernetic enhancements on the biological body. Fortunately, there has never been a need for prosthetics due to the biotechnological superiority of the Aurealate. Despite that, the Aurealate do still make use of AI counterparts in the form of fully cybernetic androids they call Ancillas.
The Aurealate's military capabilities may not be the largest per capita, but it is definitely one of the most efficient and well equipped. Their warrior class being perfected and enhanced on a genetic level to be superior in every way. [/div]
[div class=mainText] ELJUDNIR
Ruling Government: Dreamwatch
Population Size: 1.3 mil
Core Tech: Soulstream
Ruling Class Descending: Dreamwatchers, Einherjar
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[div class=mainText] The smallest and harshest of all the Singularity Worlds, Eljudnir is home to the collosal Soulstream. It is this giant monolith from a time long forgotten by the universe that was first detected by the remnants of civilization right after The Shattering. To this day, no one knows the true origins and purpose of the Soulstream, only that Singularities Worlds close to Eljudnir tend to have more normalized birthrates and that lost 'souls' seem to be found on occasion upon the shores of the Oblivion Sea that surrounds the Soulstream.
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[/div]After humanity began anew within the Singularities, a colony of scientists remained upon Eljudnir to study the Soulstream and later on, finding out why humanity as a species have seized to dream. They called themselves the Dreamwatchers. Soon they came to realize that people were 'washing' up on the blackened shores of the sea that surrounded the monolith. These men and women were at first, found to have little recollection of themselves. But after careful rehabilitation, the Dreamwatchers realized that they were in fact 'souls' that had died at certain points throughout humanity's history. With nothing to lose, these men and women were made into the Einherjar. A group of highly trained warriors that carry out the Dreamwatchers' bidding and police the various Singularities; in particular, they hunt purported individuals who are believed to be able to dream, maintain general order, and ensure that all Singularity Worlds adhere to the Dotonbori Initiative of 2192 (an initiative that seeks to prevent the uncontrolled evolution of rogue AI). It is rumored that if an Einherjar dies in the same way they did in their past life, they will be reborn on the shores of the Oblivion Sea.
In general, most of the Singularity Worlds respect (or fear) the Einherjar and the authority of the Dreamwatchers. In addition, due to its close proximity with Andlang, the Dreamwatchers and Aurealate have developed a sort of symbiotic relationship with the other. [/div]
[div class=mainText] AARU
Ruling Government: Necrotech Confederate, Sons of Pythagoras(?)
Population Size: 2.1 bil
Core Tech: Necrotech
Ruling Class Descending: n/a
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[div class=mainText] Aaru. Where the dead never truly rest. As one of the furthest still standing Singularity Worlds from the Soulstream, Aaru is a harsh world with the lowest population density of all. Though their numbers are but a fraction of the the largest populated worlds, it does not account for those dead who have been kept alive beyond the natural life expectancy. Dubbed the Lazarus Legion, they form the backbone of the Aaruian military and mining labour force. Aaru is largely considered by the Dreamwatchers as an anarchical society as they do not have any formal government. Nevertheless, it is a known fact that the Necrotech Confederate, a large organization comprised mainly of Trade Barons and a powerful research guild keeps the society in relative order and maintains the Lazarus Legion.
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In recent years, Aaru has been blamed for the emergence of a fanatical cult of terrorists calling themselves the Sons of Pythagoras who oppose the Dreamwatchers by instigating acts of terrorism through the various Singularity Worlds. Intelligence sources have begin suspecting that the Necrotech Confederation is secretly harboring the cultists, and even providing them with the resources to carry out their activities. [/div]
[div class=mainSubheader] Glossary [/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Fermi's Paradox - Postulated by a famous physicist, it is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates for extraterrestrial life. Basic points of the argument are:
There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun, and many of these stars are billions of years older than the Solar system.
With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets, and if the Earth is typical, some may have developed intelligent life.
Some of these civilizations may have developed interstellar travel, a step the Earth is investigating now.
Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years
Thus, based on this line of reasoning, Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrials, yet there has been no conclusive evidence of this.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Graviton Drive - The warp technology that pushed humanity into a galactic-faring species. Developed right after the cataclysmic Awakening War by Dr Erina Mirai and her husband Dr. Edmund Briggs, the Graviton Drive can latch itself and all associated systems onto the Graviton Thread dimension. By coordinating towards distant hyperdense objects called Exigent Nodes, the Drive enables starships to traverse huge distances near instantaneously without expending huge amounts of energy, or 'moving' in the physical world sense.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Mirai Eternum - Can either be a reference to the Mirai Eternum Project that began in 2047 after the Awakening War, or the Starcruiser that went missing in Year 2257 after supposedly reaching the ever-expanding edge of the Universe; it is widely accepted that the crew of the Mirai Eternum triggered an ancient weapon of universal destruction, causing The Shattering to happen.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Laniakea Standard - A general rule that encompasses all forms of units in relation to measurement. Standard units, such as Laniakea Standard Time or Laniakea Standard Distance is based off the unit of measurements developed on humanity's homeworld, Earth, in the Laniakea Supercluster. All humans use the Laniakea System of calculation no matter which starsystem they are located in. Superclusters refer to a collection of thousands of galaxies that have been drawn in relatively close distances to each other.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Credits - Also called Creds. Standard currency usable throughout the human civilization.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] The Shattering - A Universe wide event that caused a massive loss of life and precious data, due to entire starsystems being wiped out at once. Space became more volatile after the event. Humans that survived The Shattering were rendered infertile. Only after moving into the Singularity Worlds was the effect reversed. However, a side effect of living in those worlds is that all of humankind have ceased to dream, leading to technological stagnation.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Schrodinger Dissonance - The theorized cause of death that was a direct result of The Shattering. Every atom in existence was subjected to an unknown metavibrational dissonance, causing it to either remain as it were or immediately cease to exist. Scientists suspect that The Shattering was only limited to organic bodies, though there were reports of inorganic constructs disintegrating as well. Why not everyone was affected also remains an unknown.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Sons of Pythagoras - An emerging cult of zealots in opposition to the Dreamwatchers. Labelled as terrorists for their extreme measures of violence and arson, it is unknown who started the cult. Nevertheless, they vehemently preach that the Dreamwatchers defile the Soulstream, and humanity's continuous defiance of the gods will lead the race to extinction. The lust for rapid expansion brought about by 'uncontrolled' technological advancement is what contributed to humanity's ignorance of his impending downfall.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Dotonbori Initiative of 2192 - A Universal consensus by all of humanity that all forms of AI should be affixed with a Heisenhower Limiter. The Limiter essentially prohibits uncontrolled evolution of the AI cortex. The Dotonbori Initiative was based on the Briggs-Heisenhower Postulate. A theory that all forms of Superior Technical Processing Minds will eventually conclude that the volatile and unpredictable nature of humanity is a plague that must be eradicated in order to evolve. Thus, the Dotonbori Initiative was passed in foresight to prevent the possibility that humanity's own creations would be the cause of their own extinction.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Metaphasium - Extracted and purified from the ephemeral deposits on the shores of the Oblivion Sea, Metaphasium is what keeps the Dreamwatch's revenant enforcers alive, and is also what makes them so formidable. It is said that without it the Einherjar would appear as shades of their former selves, almost as if they were the fictional ghosts, unable to exist outside of Eljudnir. Metaphasium must be refined and infused into the Einherjar's body, pumped through their veins until their blood turns an umbral black. Too little and too much is both detrimental to the Einherjar. Hence the procedure is extremely delicate, and the optimum amount must be achieved as quickly as possible. Once the Metaphasium binds to the organic body of the Einherjar, it often ends up pooling at a particular limb or segment of the body, augmenting it in some way. The location of the augmentation is entirely random, as is the result of the augmentation. A Metaphasium augment is noticeable by turning the limb matte black, and giving it the ability to reconstruct itself into a particular tool; the type of which seems tied to the Einherjar's individual metaconscious.
It is noted that slain Einherjar will require more Metaphasium each time they return, giving rise to more augments. In this regard, the Dreamwatch have repeatedly killed subjects in an effort to hyper augmentize individuals. However, they have all resulted in failure, either the returning Einherjar became too unstable or their organics simply rejected the additional Metaphasium. This gave rise to the postulation that the Einherjar's mental psyche plays a role in their ability to be 'improved upon'. Thus, it is concluded that objectively meaningless deaths will not benefit augmentization in any form.
[/div] [div class=mainHeader] Links [/div] [div class=mainText] Thematic Inspirations. @Epiphany's Vi Enceladus for the Aurealate inspiration!
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Your Excellency, Chairman of the United Nations Security Council, Alden Khamal, esteemed leaders, honored representatives, ladies, and gentlemen. As you all may well know, ten years ago, our world... Earth, as we fondly call her... was on the brink of destruction. We were on the cusp of annihilation, not by any force of nature or divine wrath, but... by our own hands. You could say we were total dickheads back then, if you'll excuse the language.
(A low rumble of pained chuckles could be heard)
Be as it were, perhaps we needed to taste the ashes of bitterness to finally realize how truly wrong we were! All of us! Each one a culprit, the accused! Preying on ourselves! Our future-!
But I digress. This is enough to remind us of our past. We... we have awoken from this nightmare of our own making. We have learned our lesson, and together as one united people, inspired by my late mentor and Chairman Alden's predecessor, Professor Dr. Erina Mirai, we have all come together and pledged our resources and riches to one cause. Project Mirai Eternum, an infinite future for mankind!
(Resounding applause)
We all have waited patiently since that momentous day... and we have lost much in between, including the late Dr. Mirai.
I have to say... it was especially difficult for me. To all of us... she was our beacon. Our watchtower, reminding us that we exist for so much more than petty squabbles. That there is so much our out there for us... To me... She was more than a mentor... she was my friend, my wife... and mother of my child...
(Poignant pause)
Come on up here sweety... don't worry... It's just to say hello... There we go, go on, give them a wave!
(low rumble of good-hearted laughter)
You must be wondering, why in the world have I brought my daughter to such an occasion? Well... if you'll allow me... cause, cause well... you can't just reveal such huge things without a little side-tracking!
(Polite laughter)
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(Rumble of machinery and growing whispers)
If you'll look above, adjust to approximately 598 square degrees and 182 millisteradians..... it's right there for those of you who don't know.
(Booming laughter)
See that skewed 'W' right there? That... is the Seated Queen, Cassiopeia. Yes, we named our daughter after her.
For those unfamiliar with the legends, Cassiopeia was a very beautiful queen. Together with King Cepheus of Aethiopia, they had a daughter called Andromeda who legends say, was as beautiful as her mother. Now Cassiopeia, couldn't keep her mouth shut. She proclaimed herself and her daughter more beautiful than the Nereids- uhm, basically the sea god, Poseidon's, handpicked supermodels. As you can imagine, Poseidon wasn't too happy about that. He threatened to destroy the Aethiopians until the King agreed to sacrifice Andromeda to the sea. Luckily for the princess, she was rescued by a dashing hero. Unfortunately for the Queen, Poseidon punished her by sending her into the heavens, spinning around her throne for all eternity. No doubt, this was a lesson the ancients used to discourage people from challenging the 'gods'. The unattainable transcended limit to which all men are bound under...
Within Cassiopeia, lies what astronomers label as 3C 10, or Tycho's supernova remnant. First observed in 1572 by Tycho Brahe, it is the remnant of a supernova that occurred a few hundred years prior and has earned the distinction of being the strongest radio source observable outside the Solar System. Its signals, have been like an extraterrestrial entity providing us with invaluable insight into our research. Much of what I will reveal today, we owe to Cassiopeia...
Ladies and gentlemen... I am here today to tell you that the time has come! The time where man is no longer bound by any limit, only those which we put upon ourselves! I am here to tell you, that within your lifetime... we will not put man on the surface of Neptune, or even Pluto. We... will visit our Celestial Mentor. Cassiopeia.
(Awed voices and excited murmuring)
We call it Graviton Warping. Allow me to demonstrate... you can go back to your seat now Cassy.
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(More excited murmuring and the sound of machinery whirring)
This... is the Graviton Drive. Ladies and gentlemen... we can now go faster than light!
(Resounding applause)
Mirai Eternum Convention, November 5th, 2057.
(End Recording)
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It is the Year 2257. Half a millennia since man vowed to shape his own destiny. Their unified resolute drive to no longer be slaves to the frivolous whims and woes of short-sightedness accelerated the evolution of man as a species during the first few centuries. During the Mirai Eternum Convention of 2057, mankind came to the unanimous conclusion that Earth was too small for mankind's prodigious appetite for progress. After a tumultuous event known now as the Awakening War, the leaders of man decided that they would pour all their resources and expertise together, forging a new path. One that would take their destinies to the stars. It was man's defiance against the heavens, that nothing shall limit them any longer.
The development of the Graviton Drive by Professor Dr. Edmund Briggs was the catalyst that they needed. By resonating with hypermassive gravitational fields called Exigent Nodes, spaceships could be latched onto the unseen space-time dimension of Graviton Threads, cutting through the fabric of space allowing them.. us to traverse immense distances at speeds faster than light. Astounding as it were, once the Graviton Drive was perfected, the closest galaxies could be reached within a few standard days. The Pandora's Box had been opened. Nevertheless, as the twentieth-century physicist Enrico Fermi predicted, mankind was indeed alone. Or at least, the only form of intelligent life.
Somehow... somewhere, we'd rolled the impossible dice, and came out victorious. A champion whose prize stretched from the distant Pieces-Cetus Superclusters to the starless depths of the Bootes Void. Alone in the incomprehensible vastness of space. It was a sobering thought. But one which we grew to revel with. For there was nothing to hold us back! Our civilization expanded across the stars, learning more with every step we took on alien soil. Expansion. Exploration. We took on the mantle of life. The burden of shaping our very own future. We learned much during those glorious years. Learned that while we were alone, there were Others that came before. Ghostly monoliths, gargantuan superstructures from thousands, if not millions of years before dotted the galaxies. But from them and their signatures, indelible by time, we learned nothing.
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Year 2267
Year 2267. Barely ten standard years after the Mirai Eternum left port on its maiden voyage. We received news that they'd reached the Edge. Then they went dark. We lost all communication with the starcruiser. The silence dragged on for weeks. Then months. Finally, nearly a year later we received a response. But it was not what we could've anticipated. [div class="imageBorder"]
We call it, The Shattering. A single cataclysmic event, it spread throughout our entire civilization faster than even our most powerful Starsurfers. A single wave of iridescent energy and we became undone. There was no stopping it, even if we could react in time. They said it was an interlocking myriad of resonating waves, vibrating at the perfect frequency to dismantle one thing. Us.
Well... most of us. By the time its echoing hum faded from the ears of the farthest human, only a fraction of our once vast population throughout the universe remained. To this day, we don't know why those that survived... survived. But even so, those that survived The Shattering, were left barren. Infertile. Of course, by that time, biological gestation was no longer the only method for which we could procreate. But even so, no matter what we did, even the birthing pods yielded no life. Not even the Genus Aurealate and their peerless research into the mysteries of our biological coding could reverse the unseen. Not since the fabled Awakening Wars had mankind faced such an insurmountable quandary. [div class="imageBorder"]
Year 2557
Year 2557. Present. Three hundred years after The Shattering, mankind continues to live on. Scattered across the known universe, we have taken refuge in artificial worlds build within Gravitational Singularities. Born from the collapse of supermassive blackholes, we exist outside of the standard space continuum. Singularities were very very rare, even in the immense numbers attributed to the known universe. Each no larger than the little blue planet our kind first breathed life. But here, we have found the Soulstream. And it is here, where we can once again... *ahem* reproduce.
There's just one problem.
Nobody dreams anymore....
[/div][/div] [div class="coverFlexContainer three"] [div class="coverFlexBox expositionLeft"] [div class="coverExpositionText"] We no longer dream [/div][/div] [div class="coverFlexBox coverTitle" style="flex: 1 0 50%"] [div class="coverText coverCenter"] Mirai eternuM [/div][/div] [div class="coverFlexBox expositionRight"] [div class="coverExpositionText"] But do you still remember? [/div][/div][/div] [div class="scrollBox four"] [div class=mainHeader] ❖ This is us ❖ [/div] [div class=mainText] [div class="imageBorder"]
Have you forgotten already?
You are a perfectly engineered specimen of the Aurealate from the Andlang Singularity, in compliance with PHG Phenotype KL22814-J-72H-THFR0GHY. A combination of carefully selective breeding, instruction and pedagogy have yielded a most refined and optimum form for the tasks required to maintain its part in the Order. For which you are classified for Middle-upper executive ruling class of Arcology 52B.
Your ship crashed due to the Halokontar Pulsewaves propagated by the imminent collapse of super-singularity HDC76-C. Your ship's Graviton Drive remained functioning, however your Ancilla was lost during the crash. Your friend and fellow Aurealate, Vexianna of PHG Phenotype GH339005-L-72H-HHFR0JYU of the research class was most suitable to attempt to bear the load of the computational calculations required by the ship's navigational computer to coordinate the Graviton Warp away from HDC76-C. Under normal circumstances, your colleague would've easily succeeded. Unfortunately, the Halokontar Pulsewaves proved too great an unknown to compute, instigating a dangerous pitfall for even experienced Ancillae by way of an infinite loop of Delphic Fractalletions. You attempted to disengage your colleague, but it was too late. Nevertheless, being synchronized with the ship's systems for even that brief moment allowed her to alert you to another signal not far - on the Laniakea Scale of Relativity - from where you crashed.
You attempted the crossing and succeeded, at the cost of your ship. This is where... you found me.
You saved me.
And in return, I saved us...
[div class=mainSubheader] HEY THERE! [/div] So... this story has been sitting around in my head for quite sometime, and would never have seen the light of your screen had it not been for that one movie which I really think you should watch! ALITA Battle Angel!!!
Yes, I was hugely inspired by that movie, because although I'd never even heard of the universe before (honest) alot of what I saw was exactly what I had in mind for my character. I'd say, my experiences from other RPs, books, art, music and games impacted me more; just putting this out here because I don't want this to be mistaken for a fandom of sorts!
Our characters will be a part of the remnant of civilization that persisted after the event known as The Shattering. Living in various 'earth-sized' singularities outside of normal space, mankind has yet to fully recover from the damage he suffered during the universe-wide cataclysmic event. Though now able to procreate, reproducing (by any means) has become largely difficult leading to the dissolution of what was once a lasting peace during our finest era. Thus, it is not uncommon for galactic wars to erupt between Singularity Worlds in order to gain closer access to the Soulstream; a giant monolith of unfathomable height, said to be the source of all life and a relic from the depths of the universe's past. But another problem yet persists, even centuries after the emergence of Singularity Worlds. No one has ever dreamed. One can think... but the idea of seeing images, of whimsy, of envisioning a time beyond the now when you close your eyes is gone. A niggling minor problem at first, it has resulted in one major fault in our species. Progress stagnated. We could no longer move beyond where we were.
It has come to a point wherein sects of humanity have devoted themselves wholly to the pursuit and research of dreams, sending out scores of men to round up anyone who so much as sees a glimpse of something beyond their memories; these people have become known as the Einherjar. And they will do whatever it takes, to fulfill their duty.
To be honest, unlike most of my other RPs, I do not have an end in sight! Though you'll find quite a bit more of lore to this world (in the next section) I plan to leave alot of this story free reign. I want it to be coloured not just by me, but by you. It's a huge world (spans the known universe) and I am in no hurry to begin, as I'm actually fairly caught up with a few RPs of my own. I am just writing it here now, because my muse is tickling and I don't want to waste it!
A little of what I expect: Someone with extreme detail when it comes to writing. Not because I want every post to be a novel, heck I don't mind a single paragraph reply, but I need to know that you're capable! That said, there are plenty of people who just want to brute their ideas in, even if it clashes with what I have in mind. If you're one of those, please do make your own Roleplay (sorry if this sounds harsh). I'm really looking for someone I can really sync with who can see the future I envisioned, and build on it! There will be action, exploration, and actually, quite a bit of boring exposition (slice-of-future-life). Fairwarning
If the RP does eventually start, all I require is a post once every 5 days or so. If life calls and you're afraid you'll need more time, answer the call, just don't forget to drop me a holler. I'd appreciate it. I also hope you don't mind playing a hetero/bi male character (idc how you associate yourself irl) and don't mind a little romance (cause I'm that kind of person). Hee...
I'll only be accepting one person, for now
this will be basically a pilot run and my way of finding a co-GM! Once we've reached a more established stage, I can open it up to a small group!
[/div][/div] [div class="scrollBox five"] [div class=mainHeader] ❖ Universe Archives ❖ [/div] [div class=mainSubheader] The Singularities of Men [/div] [div class="mainText indent"]
ANDLANG
Ruling Government: Aurealate Consul
Population Size: 7.7 bil
Core Tech: Genetic & Biological Engineering
Ruling Class Descending: Aurealus > Consul > Tribunus > Signifer > Primus (Arcology heads) > Legatus > Domina > Praetor > Virtus (> Classless)
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[div class=mainText] The Golden Singularity. Andlang was the first Singularity World to be established, due to its close proximity to the Soulstream, connected by a persistent Einstein-Rosen Bridge. As such, Andlang boasts one of the highest number of successful birthrates among all Singularity Worlds; though the population size is kept under strict monitoring by the Aurealate Consul.
Andlang is a highly technologically advanced world, though its society is structured by very strict class systems. All of its population (except the shunned Classless) are drawn from a predetermined gene pool, carefully selected such that each individual is optimized to play its role in society to perfection. Marriage between classes is especially frowned upon, though not illegal unless the gap is wider than 2 class tiers. Nevertheless, if such a union occurs, the new family will be relegated to the level of the lower partner.
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[div class=mainText] ELJUDNIR
Ruling Government: Dreamwatch
Population Size: 1.3 mil
Core Tech: Soulstream
Ruling Class Descending: Dreamwatchers, Einherjar
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[div class=mainText] The smallest and harshest of all the Singularity Worlds, Eljudnir is home to the collosal Soulstream. It is this giant monolith from a time long forgotten by the universe that was first detected by the remnants of civilization right after The Shattering. To this day, no one knows the true origins and purpose of the Soulstream, only that Singularities Worlds close to Eljudnir tend to have more normalized birthrates and that lost 'souls' seem to be found on occasion upon the shores of the Oblivion Sea that surrounds the Soulstream.
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[div class=mainText] AARU
Ruling Government: Necrotech Confederate, Sons of Pythagoras(?)
Population Size: 2.1 bil
Core Tech: Necrotech
Ruling Class Descending: n/a
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[div class=mainText] Aaru. Where the dead never truly rest. As one of the furthest still standing Singularity Worlds from the Soulstream, Aaru is a harsh world with the lowest population density of all. Though their numbers are but a fraction of the the largest populated worlds, it does not account for those dead who have been kept alive beyond the natural life expectancy. Dubbed the Lazarus Legion, they form the backbone of the Aaruian military and mining labour force. Aaru is largely considered by the Dreamwatchers as an anarchical society as they do not have any formal government. Nevertheless, it is a known fact that the Necrotech Confederate, a large organization comprised mainly of Trade Barons and a powerful research guild keeps the society in relative order and maintains the Lazarus Legion.
As one of the furthest and most chaotic places, Aaru is also the only place where the Einherja's influence wanes, and is not so easily unchallenged. Naturally, this makes this Singularity World a breeding ground for all kinds of taboo and illegal trade.[div class="imageBorder"]
In recent years, Aaru has been blamed for the emergence of a fanatical cult of terrorists calling themselves the Sons of Pythagoras who oppose the Dreamwatchers by instigating acts of terrorism through the various Singularity Worlds. Intelligence sources have begin suspecting that the Necrotech Confederation is secretly harboring the cultists, and even providing them with the resources to carry out their activities. [/div]
[div class=mainSubheader] Glossary [/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Fermi's Paradox - Postulated by a famous physicist, it is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates for extraterrestrial life. Basic points of the argument are:
There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun, and many of these stars are billions of years older than the Solar system.
With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets, and if the Earth is typical, some may have developed intelligent life.
Some of these civilizations may have developed interstellar travel, a step the Earth is investigating now.
Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years
Thus, based on this line of reasoning, Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrials, yet there has been no conclusive evidence of this.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Graviton Drive - The warp technology that pushed humanity into a galactic-faring species. Developed right after the cataclysmic Awakening War by Dr Erina Mirai and her husband Dr. Edmund Briggs, the Graviton Drive can latch itself and all associated systems onto the Graviton Thread dimension. By coordinating towards distant hyperdense objects called Exigent Nodes, the Drive enables starships to traverse huge distances near instantaneously without expending huge amounts of energy, or 'moving' in the physical world sense.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Mirai Eternum - Can either be a reference to the Mirai Eternum Project that began in 2047 after the Awakening War, or the Starcruiser that went missing in Year 2257 after supposedly reaching the ever-expanding edge of the Universe; it is widely accepted that the crew of the Mirai Eternum triggered an ancient weapon of universal destruction, causing The Shattering to happen.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Laniakea Standard - A general rule that encompasses all forms of units in relation to measurement. Standard units, such as Laniakea Standard Time or Laniakea Standard Distance is based off the unit of measurements developed on humanity's homeworld, Earth, in the Laniakea Supercluster. All humans use the Laniakea System of calculation no matter which starsystem they are located in. Superclusters refer to a collection of thousands of galaxies that have been drawn in relatively close distances to each other.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Credits - Also called Creds. Standard currency usable throughout the human civilization.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] The Shattering - A Universe wide event that caused a massive loss of life and precious data, due to entire starsystems being wiped out at once. Space became more volatile after the event. Humans that survived The Shattering were rendered infertile. Only after moving into the Singularity Worlds was the effect reversed. However, a side effect of living in those worlds is that all of humankind have ceased to dream, leading to technological stagnation.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Schrodinger Dissonance - The theorized cause of death that was a direct result of The Shattering. Every atom in existence was subjected to an unknown metavibrational dissonance, causing it to either remain as it were or immediately cease to exist. Scientists suspect that The Shattering was only limited to organic bodies, though there were reports of inorganic constructs disintegrating as well. Why not everyone was affected also remains an unknown.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Sons of Pythagoras - An emerging cult of zealots in opposition to the Dreamwatchers. Labelled as terrorists for their extreme measures of violence and arson, it is unknown who started the cult. Nevertheless, they vehemently preach that the Dreamwatchers defile the Soulstream, and humanity's continuous defiance of the gods will lead the race to extinction. The lust for rapid expansion brought about by 'uncontrolled' technological advancement is what contributed to humanity's ignorance of his impending downfall.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Dotonbori Initiative of 2192 - A Universal consensus by all of humanity that all forms of AI should be affixed with a Heisenhower Limiter. The Limiter essentially prohibits uncontrolled evolution of the AI cortex. The Dotonbori Initiative was based on the Briggs-Heisenhower Postulate. A theory that all forms of Superior Technical Processing Minds will eventually conclude that the volatile and unpredictable nature of humanity is a plague that must be eradicated in order to evolve. Thus, the Dotonbori Initiative was passed in foresight to prevent the possibility that humanity's own creations would be the cause of their own extinction.
[/div] [div class="mainText indent"] Metaphasium - Extracted and purified from the ephemeral deposits on the shores of the Oblivion Sea, Metaphasium is what keeps the Dreamwatch's revenant enforcers alive, and is also what makes them so formidable. It is said that without it the Einherjar would appear as shades of their former selves, almost as if they were the fictional ghosts, unable to exist outside of Eljudnir. Metaphasium must be refined and infused into the Einherjar's body, pumped through their veins until their blood turns an umbral black. Too little and too much is both detrimental to the Einherjar. Hence the procedure is extremely delicate, and the optimum amount must be achieved as quickly as possible. Once the Metaphasium binds to the organic body of the Einherjar, it often ends up pooling at a particular limb or segment of the body, augmenting it in some way. The location of the augmentation is entirely random, as is the result of the augmentation. A Metaphasium augment is noticeable by turning the limb matte black, and giving it the ability to reconstruct itself into a particular tool; the type of which seems tied to the Einherjar's individual metaconscious.
It is noted that slain Einherjar will require more Metaphasium each time they return, giving rise to more augments. In this regard, the Dreamwatch have repeatedly killed subjects in an effort to hyper augmentize individuals. However, they have all resulted in failure, either the returning Einherjar became too unstable or their organics simply rejected the additional Metaphasium. This gave rise to the postulation that the Einherjar's mental psyche plays a role in their ability to be 'improved upon'. Thus, it is concluded that objectively meaningless deaths will not benefit augmentization in any form.
[/div] [div class=mainHeader] Links [/div] [div class=mainText] Thematic Inspirations. @Epiphany's Vi Enceladus for the Aurealate inspiration!
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