Plot and Lore

[Illusionus]

Lore
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Humans are truly extraordinary creatures. Over millions of years, we have been able to adapt and learn to not only survive, but to live. Throughout the years, we have been able to continually learn more about ourselves and the world around us. Compared to all of our discoveries since the beginning of time, nothing can even come close to that of the Counduit Gene.


The first documented discovery of the Conduit Gene was of a young man by the name of Cole McGrath in Empire City. This was discovered after the infamous Empire Incident in which a powerful bomb was set off in the city, devistating the surrounding area. The incident is most believed to be a terrorist attack and even a government weapon test. There has been no word from the government since then, but many investigations have been held, but to no avail. Military personel were unable to detain and question him, but reports of McGrath being able to survive being shot at multiple times and manipulating electricity, among other things.


Within a month of the Incident, Cole McGrath was unable to be located within Empire City. At that time, reports of an strange and unidentifiable organism  moving south along the eastern coast of the country had been made. The areas it had been said to have passed were nearly completely destroyed, leaving few survivors in its wake. Eventually the creature, which had been named "The Beast" by the public, had dissapeared once it reached a backwater town called New Marais. Some time after "The Beast" dissapeared, it appeared once again where it had vanished. At that point, it was revealed that "The Beast" was after McGrath who had retreated to New Marais after it had appeared in Empire City. In the end, McGrath was able to defeat the creature, but at a cost. At "The Beast's" defeat, a mysterious phenomenon occured, causing all bodily functions of seemingly all Conduits worldwide to cease. With this, Earth lost approximatly a fourth of its population, including Cole himself.

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By the year 2018, 7 years after Marais incident, the world had finally been able to recover from the worldwide deaths caused by "The Beast's" defeat. The US, especially, was able to repair a majority of the damages caused by "The Beast's" rampage. As amazing as it was that the damage done had nearly been repaired, something much more facinating began to occur about a year after the Marais incident. Although they had long thought to have gone extinct during the incident, reports of conduits began to pop up almost every day. Government officials, knowing the damage that counduits could and have done, organized to decide upon a solution to the conduit problem.


After countless hours of debating between national leaders, a conclusion was finally reached. It was decided that a specialized task force would be created to moniter the public, investigate suspected conduits, and detain conduits before they can cause any further damage. This task force became known as the Department of Unified Protection, or DUP, grew as the government poured thousands of dollars into keeping the organization alive. Along with the DUP's conduit leader, Brooke Augustine, the "bio-terrorist" threat shrinks day by day.


By now, the DUP has almost completely erased the "bio-terrorist" threat to the country. The DUP was so succesful at detaining the Conduits that the US military has begun taking over the duties of the organization. Conduits have been being transfered to military bases and laboratories across the country to study and even weaponize the conduit population. Currently, due to an accident in transporting a group of conduits to a military base, the city of Seattle has been closed off and the DUP has relocated its base of opperations to te city.


You are a current resident of Seattle. The only difference between you and almost every other citizen: you are part of this fight whethe you know it or not.. You might be a member of the DUP, an average citizen, a conduit on the run, maybe even an unactivated conduit. Either way, you play a big part in this. Whether you fight to stop the conduits, or fight to free them.