ManicMuse
I ax-o-lotl questions.
HAVEN
In the year 2020, the world turned its eyes to the skies. Humankind was faced with an event that threatened the future of Earth it's self. Several comets were on a direct course for Earth. The world's most advanced programs and companies came together to carry out plans, to eradicate the threat. To everyone's astonishment, the comets seemed to have intelligence. Even the ability to evade attempts to destroy them before entering the worlds outer atmosphere. Finally, in Earth's last hour, Genesis became the saving grace of mankind; when they released a new weapon with nanotechnology, able to safely capture this rogue threat. For Genesis, destroying such a rare find was unthinkable.
Trillions of dollars were poured into creating a space center on the moon. There they could experiment on the organisms without fear of contaminating earth, or so they thought.
Six years after the successful capture of the organism, a catastrophic event occurred on the lunar surface. The aggressive nature of the plant like organism was made clear. The globe structure of the space center was dotted with various plants, which had been spliced with the alien organism. At the point of failure, all of the plants became hostile and grew at mind boggling rates, sending their root systems deep into the moon's crust. The roots grew at such an astonishing rate, that the sheer force split the moon, fracturing it into pieces. Much of the moon stayed in place, more or less, small asteroids from the event burst out in every direction. Using the rubble from the fracturing of the moon, the alien organisms and rubble came raining down to earth.
Billions of lives were lost in the years that followed. It was not the impact of the dozens of comets across the world that created the most destruction. No, it was the organisms themselves, which survived entry. It only took a few months for the organisms to adapt. Then the reports started to pour in from around the already crippled world. Something was happening to the flora and fauna around the contamination sites. They were mutating, growing contiguous and mobile. After that everything collapsed, it was the beginning of the end. Massive creatures ripped through cities as people fled for their lives, with no where to go.
In the United States, United Kingdom, China and Japan, branches of Genesis had already taken steps. Having the foresight few had and almost a decades head start. Taking all the intel they had gathered over the years, as the destruction began, Genesis began finalizing their Havens. Four massive bowl like structures were built. Gigantic walls, with built in structures for living quarters within. They towered over skyscrapers and were put into place, as raw resources were loaded into each bowl like city. Pure seeds were acquired from the last uncontaminated regions and apocalypse bunkers. As Genesis prepared and gathered, governments and armies all fell in the years of battles between humankind and the creatures now named, Origins.
Then finally, as the last of the power grids and colony holds were collapsing, a call was put out that any and all survivors must come to the Havens for salvation. Once people started to flood into the compounds, they finished the construction of their last defense systems and sealed all but one hanger to the outside in each Haven. The tips of the walls were topped with a rounded force field to protect the uncontaminated plant life within each city, so it would not cross breed with the pollen of the contaminated Origin plants outside the Havens.
CURRENT HAVEN
The U.S. Haven has now been standing for 20 years and people have forgotten the true horror of Origins; the havoc they wreaked. The reality of the threat dimmed and washed way into memory. Conspiracy theories circulate that the government has exaggerating the threat. Some feel that dangers beyond Haven have dissipated in the 20 years that have passed since the Haven was created. Whispers of speculation, suggest that Genesis is keeping the people out of the outside world for the sake of control and for their own sick experiment.
Drones, bots and primitive robots are not an uncommon sight with in Haven. Genesis keeps the most advanced tech for themselves and their peacekeepers. Some rumors suggest that Genesis is on the verge of creating cyborgs with prosthetic bodies, to which people's very minds would be uploaded into. However, such a feat would be difficult without access to more resources. It would not be unheard of for Genesis personal to have access to the few nanobots they have left. Though, should that level of tech fall into the hands of a common resident and they were caught, that could be grounds for expulsion into the outside jungles.
Average citizens of Haven may receive cybernetic implants, in fact, such a thing is encouraged, so long you can pay the credits required. Due to the delicate nature of the surgeries, surgical robotic systems are used to perform the procedures. This makes them quick and offers a faster healing time, especially for those that use Cymalt. Still in the back alleyways and less than respectable corners and nooks of Havens, the butchery of surgery without robotic systems still takes place. However, they are much less successful and often lead to poor cybernetic implants and awful scarring. Not to mention the parts such parties use, are normally second hand and self retrieved. Peacekeepers nor Genesis support such upgrades and severely punish those practicing such things, if they catch them.
- People of higher class live higher up in the city in penthouses on the upper floors of tall buildings, the lower the class you are the closer you live to the ground.
- In order to enter certain areas of the city you need to present your hand print for identification (i.e. no lower class people in upper class areas).
- Sometimes people will have illegal laser surgery to get their handprints to match that of a particular upper class citizen in order to get access to restricted areas.
- Many upper class citizens employ people of lower class as servants, which is one of the few ways they can legally get access to upper class-only areas.
- The main mode of transportation is through a series of underground tubes below the city. You grab hold of a hand hold, step onto a small platform, and it it shoots you through a small dark tunnel until you emerge at your destination.
- Sometimes people disappear during transport, potentially due to criminals hiding in their own tunnels and abducting people
- The buildings are crowded close together, meaning the ground level consists mostly of narrow alleys between buildings winding into a convoluted maze of sorts.
- Due to the danger of the ground level, many females/feminine people masquerade as being male/masculine when going outside in order to avoid trouble. Large bulky coats have become a universal necessity for people of slender build
- Controversially, people of upper class tend to wear extremely form-fitting attire, and instead have servants to protect them when on the ground level. These servants are specially hired and contracted to have an excess of cyborg parts installed in order to make them the ideal bodyguards
- A single cyborg eye is a fashion trend, along with cyborg hair.
- If there are any homeless children they will often be taken in by families renting an apartment together. If they are not taken in, they tend to disappear off the streets. Nobody knows where they go.
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