Post by SHADOWMASTER89 on Jan 7, 2012 15:09:15 GMT -5
(OOC: This is a private rp between myself and a friend and since this is really the first rp i'm opening myself its kind of an experiment, however, if it goes well future installments of the storyline may be open to everyone, but for now it is invite only.)
The Back Story
In the year 2020 on June 22nd, a massive, unidentified crystalline meteor passed through the Earth's atmosphere and slammed into Angel Island, just off the California coastline, about a mile or so above Ayala Cove, sending crystalline meteor fragments flying for miles in all directions. Over the next ten years the United Nations funded in depth research of the alien mineral, dubbed Catalystanite, due to its astounding ability to warp and manipulate the very fabric of time and space. It was also discovered that the mineral had the ability to channel and amplify energy from outside sources, including the human mind, which could be used in countless ways, giving rise to magnificent new technologies as well as a "magic like" ability that came to be known as flux shifting.
By the year 2035, the United Nations had become drunk on its new found power and the organization began to secure its dominance with technology and new political policies that forced less desirable nations to give up everything or be cast out. By the year 2037 every nation on Earth was in the iron grip of the United Nations either willingly or without choice.
Eventually the exploration of what new technologies the alien Catalystanite mineral could yield took a turn for the worst. On October 15th, 2040 at approximately 8:24pm, a top secret wormhole project taking place beneath the streets of Manhattan Island went horribly awry when severe mis-calibrations of a dimensional portal device caused the massive Catalystanite crystal powering the portal to become highly unstable, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion that tore the facility apart and leveled most of the city, transforming the island into an inhospitable wasteland plagued by random bouts of radiation as well as unpredictable seismic and temporal disturbances. The most horrific affect, however, was the rapid destabilization of dimensional barriers across the globe in the wake of the string of dimensional shock waves that flew out from the blast and swept across the planet, exposing the surface to random unstable wormholes and dimensional fractures connected to unknown regions of the universe.
Worldwide panic ensued immediately proceeding the Manhattan Incident as the Earth's surface descended into complete chaos from the eruption of both natural and man made disasters across the globe and the unleashing of horrific extra-dimensional apparitions. As the United Nations struggled to respond to the global crisis and restore order, they were met with failure after failure as surface conditions quickly deteriorated in a matter of weeks as aftershock disasters erupted; veracious extra-terrestrial life forms and unexplained phenomena plagued the ruined landscapes of the world and the remaining surface population turned to riots and bloody skirmishes over basic necessities just to survive. In a matter of months the United Nations began to collapse around moral and political debates and power mongering among the leader nations. As the debate raged on, multiple opposing factions splintered off from the whole of the United Nations. Most of the splinter factions returned to the surface to exert their influence over different regions, hoping to somehow restore order, while the most powerful factions remained in orbit on Elysium, the massive capital city of the United Nations, and formed the Earth Reclamation Force.
Now, one hundred years later in the year 2140, the Earth's surface has been further twisted by time, environments have been altered, humanity has splintered, veracious creatures stalk the ruins of the past and bizarre phenomena plague the world.
This, is Catalyst Earth.
The Back Story
In the year 2020 on June 22nd, a massive, unidentified crystalline meteor passed through the Earth's atmosphere and slammed into Angel Island, just off the California coastline, about a mile or so above Ayala Cove, sending crystalline meteor fragments flying for miles in all directions. Over the next ten years the United Nations funded in depth research of the alien mineral, dubbed Catalystanite, due to its astounding ability to warp and manipulate the very fabric of time and space. It was also discovered that the mineral had the ability to channel and amplify energy from outside sources, including the human mind, which could be used in countless ways, giving rise to magnificent new technologies as well as a "magic like" ability that came to be known as flux shifting.
By the year 2035, the United Nations had become drunk on its new found power and the organization began to secure its dominance with technology and new political policies that forced less desirable nations to give up everything or be cast out. By the year 2037 every nation on Earth was in the iron grip of the United Nations either willingly or without choice.
Eventually the exploration of what new technologies the alien Catalystanite mineral could yield took a turn for the worst. On October 15th, 2040 at approximately 8:24pm, a top secret wormhole project taking place beneath the streets of Manhattan Island went horribly awry when severe mis-calibrations of a dimensional portal device caused the massive Catalystanite crystal powering the portal to become highly unstable, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion that tore the facility apart and leveled most of the city, transforming the island into an inhospitable wasteland plagued by random bouts of radiation as well as unpredictable seismic and temporal disturbances. The most horrific affect, however, was the rapid destabilization of dimensional barriers across the globe in the wake of the string of dimensional shock waves that flew out from the blast and swept across the planet, exposing the surface to random unstable wormholes and dimensional fractures connected to unknown regions of the universe.
Worldwide panic ensued immediately proceeding the Manhattan Incident as the Earth's surface descended into complete chaos from the eruption of both natural and man made disasters across the globe and the unleashing of horrific extra-dimensional apparitions. As the United Nations struggled to respond to the global crisis and restore order, they were met with failure after failure as surface conditions quickly deteriorated in a matter of weeks as aftershock disasters erupted; veracious extra-terrestrial life forms and unexplained phenomena plagued the ruined landscapes of the world and the remaining surface population turned to riots and bloody skirmishes over basic necessities just to survive. In a matter of months the United Nations began to collapse around moral and political debates and power mongering among the leader nations. As the debate raged on, multiple opposing factions splintered off from the whole of the United Nations. Most of the splinter factions returned to the surface to exert their influence over different regions, hoping to somehow restore order, while the most powerful factions remained in orbit on Elysium, the massive capital city of the United Nations, and formed the Earth Reclamation Force.
Now, one hundred years later in the year 2140, the Earth's surface has been further twisted by time, environments have been altered, humanity has splintered, veracious creatures stalk the ruins of the past and bizarre phenomena plague the world.
This, is Catalyst Earth.