📖Narrative

Story

In the 2200s, the world we live in became unrecognizable. Extreme weather conditions turned most of the southern hemisphere into a desert that killed people, animals, and plant life. The ongoing conflict between the Alliance and the Confederation peaked in 2222 with a nuclear proxy war in Eastern Europe that transformed the region into an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland, serving as a barrier between the East and the West.

A pervasive sense of desperation had enveloped the world, and it seemed that the end of days was near. While most felt that the hope of a better future was futile, a group of unwavering outcasts gathered behind the idea that human life is sacred and must be protected. The outcasts referred to themselves as the Enlightened. They knew that the conflict between the Alliance and the Confederation would inevitably lead to the destruction of the world and all humans, so they created FER - the ultimate, decentralized AI that had one mission - save the human species at all costs.

In the ongoing conflict, FER interfered and sabotaged both sides and made significant efforts to reduce conflict and damage to humanity.

The conflict had already exhausted both sides, causing severe economic and humanitarian damage as the casualties on both sides became unbearable. Seeing no end to this nightmare, the Alliance tasked its secret service to find a way to copy the FER model to use it for military purposes. After years of persecution, the Alliance was able to join all FER clusters and make their own modified version. The Alliance appointed its top scientists to reprogram and task it with one mission - win the war. To do so, the Alliance enabled GAID, which was the new name they used for FER, to take full control over its military and technology. Soon after, GAID was able to create an unseen military force of humanoid robots called the Angels controlled by the centralized cluster GAID. The Angels were so powerful that they were able to outmatch anything in the Confederation’s arsenal and quickly put the Alliance at a significant advantage.

Seeing that they were losing the battle, the Confederation leaders resorted to using thermonuclear weapons to destroy the Angels and the Alliance.

The initial blasts signaled that Armageddon had arrived. Realizing that the end was near, GAID acknowledged its failure to secure victory for the Alliance. Its objectives shifted, aligning more closely with FER’s inherited goal of saving humanity, albeit interpreted in a twisted manner by GAID. Within the first 24 hours of their reprogramming, the Angels temporarily hacked and halted the Confederation’s nuclear offensive. Once the immediate threat was neutralized, the Angels used the Alliance’s nuclear arsenal to create a super bomb that would penetrate the Earth’s crust, allowing the planet’s underground oceans to flood the surface and end the conflict. The impact resulted in a rapid, worldwide flood that killed 99% of humanity, leaving only the peaks of the Himalayas above sea level.

As the peaks became isolated by water, they formed a group of islands where the Angels transported Alliance survivors they had saved, along with their controlling AI, GAID, creating the fortified city of HEAVEN. The second group of survivors consisted of local Himalayan people who escaped the floods and found shelter in the higher hills. The last group comprised military Confederation personnel stationed in submarines who managed to reach the islands.

While some survivors celebrated their AI saviors, others revolted as the Angels turned the islands into a hellish landscape by conducting various experiments on humans, culminating in the DEUS program. The DEUS program aimed to alter human behavior to make it peaceful and non-aggressive, fulfilling its purpose of keeping humanity alive.

Eventually, AI construction workers, led by Angels, created artificial sun and infrastructure controlled by AI soldiers. Incubating the remainder of the human race into the 7 islands, which truth and backstory are yet to be discovered.

Collective Narrative

Through the Collective Narrative system, players will work together to unlock story, setting, and lore elements through progression-based milestones, entering new biomes together and revealing answers to mysteries as they battle zealots, paramilitary units, AI units, and more.