Wednesday, March 9, 2016
First Draft
I said that I would post the basic description of the world I am building when it was more polished. Here it is. Its not perfect and only gives a basic overview of the background of the world, but I think it at least gives the flavor I am looking to convey.
400
years ago Earth was invaded by aliens, they were both inscrutable and
capricious. These alien conquerors did all the thing that alien conquers always
do. They enslaved a large portion of the human population. They forced these slaves
to destroy the great cities of the past and build cities of soaring crystal
that no one lived in. They changed, modified, destroyed and rebuilt almost
everything and everyone. They were cruel seemingly for cruelty’s sake alone.
Then,
one day 100 years ago the aliens and most of their technology disappeared. They
did not return to their great warships, they did not travel across the planet
and meet to depart, they were simply not there one day.
This
departure left all the humans that had been workers or slaves abandoned with
nothing. People began to die without the support networks that the aliens had
put in place. Cyborg slaves succumb to rejection syndrome, farmers that grew
exclusively alien crops died from starvation with full storehouses.
The
aliens had experimented on their slaves modifying their DNA to create
abominations. Many of these twisted creatures died without their masters to care
for them. Many others moved out of their cells and hid themselves in holes or
wherever they could find. A few, monstrous beings raged across the land, feeling
nothing but hunger and rage, killing to satisfy both. Still others had become
hateful of the un-mutated and skulked around the edges of burgeoning societies
to take the straggler or the stray child.
As the aliens enslaved mankind
they likewise enslaved animals. Teaching them to talk and reason just make them
more effective in the gladiatorial games the aliens never tired of. Some
developed psionic powers that made them even more interesting to the aliens. Most
of these animals have now returned to the wild though some live with humans. It
is now impossible to tell if that dog can talk or a crow can use a gun or if
that squirrel can read you mind.
They awakened machines giving
them emotions and a desire to be real lifeforms, only for the amusement of watching
the failure. Now robots roam the world looking for purpose. Advanced AI live on
the remaining computer systems ruling over small data nodes that no longer
connect to anything. Living appliances with no movement capabilities hope to be
found and allowed to fulfill their function.
The
aliens had used their advanced technology to keep one group of humans from communicating
with another by changing the language spoken by different communities of slaves.
This created little nations of humans that were goaded into wars that were not
of their desire, but could not be avoided.
Clouds of nanite robots
were unleashed. They destroyed and rebuilt buildings, towns, people, animals, even
geological features, at random. These nanites lingered in pockets across the
earth and some people learned to use them. Now wizards of nanotechnology cast
fire and death at will. Some have the power of healing and some have even been
rumored to bring people back from the dead.
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