Post by Leon on Jan 31, 2018 19:03:42 GMT -8
The World The Qi Users Came From
Before the War
Before the War
The world was normal: governments, money, huge super powers, guns, missiles, nuclear ragnarok. In what was known as the year 1989, people had begun to unlock hidden potential in humans. discovering ancient writings and teachings on how it was used, controlled, and strengthened. It went by many names; Chakra, Ki, Qi, Energy. What they found was a pure and true meaning of one’s self, a power beyond anything that could be produced before in the modern world. As time went on, others began to unlock and master this new ability, showing more and more power as each iteration or generation perfected it. However, it still was no match for the almighty firearm.
The Start of the War and The War for Power
It's said the epicenter of the beginning of the War for Power began somewhere in Northern California. First, a huge blackout hit on a global scale and governments were dismantled over night, as if everything was targeted. Every contingency plan failed, was defeated or destroyed. The precision of the Old World’s demise was that of a seasoned doctor doing microsurgery. No detail was over looked, except that something went wrong. Whoever planned it, and it has been established that it had to be someone's plan, lost complete control of the aftermath. The world plunged into total chaos. Guns no longer worked, explosives proved docile and disarmed. Even electricity and power sources no longer had any function.
Factions rose and fell in the span of the ten year conflict. It became obvious whoever had the most and most powerful Qi users would be the usual winner of battles between factions. However, there also seemed to be a huge demand for some sort of underground drug that made even normal people powerful. A strange economy grew out of this war. Trade flourished and people grew powerful in new ways. Drugs, services, and money became another way to rise up. However, years of constant war weakened the world, even when the new technologies became abundant. People were living in fear, seeing almost constant death filling their roads and abandoned cities. The world population was assumed to have been halved in just the first five years.
The end of the War for Power : "The Attrition Accords"
With new technologies and power sources came new means of communication between the great factions that had spawned. Using this, a man known by the name Zack Asiv put out the call in the ninth year of the conflict:
"I come to you all. Every man, woman, and child - every human being on this planet that can hear me. We have seen and lived through loss, felt pain and fear on unimaginable scales. Family, friends, brothers in arms, sword sisters. Sons and daughters...
Some know me as the leader of one of these countless factions trying to cut off a piece of this world to feel safe in. We call ourselves Cabal. We are based in what was once California, Washington state, Oregon, and some of Nevada. For one year, we will not expand; we will only defend ourselves if attacked. The fighting must end somewhere. Let it end here and now. I invite all other factions to meet and discuss an end to this war, this power grab. The world will not survive ten more years of this. It won't be us that suffers. It won't be your friends, or your soldiers that suffer. It will be your children, those that follow us, those who learn this world through us.
“That's all."
The broadcast cut out as abruptly as it began, but almost exactly one year later, two hundred and sixty factions met in a small territory that would be known as Territory 57, isllands once known as The Bahamas. After weeks of discussion, arguing, breakdowns and recesses, each faction finally signed an agreement:
- Territories 14, 112, 157, and 259 will be the worlds Leading Territories.
- These Leading Territories are not to take military action against any smaller neighboring territory without major repercussions from the other large territories.
- Differences between the large territories are to be settled in small skirmish warfare, tournaments, or exams judged by other territories.
- Smaller territories, henceforth referred to as "The Remains" are to sign allegiances to the large territories nearest them for safety and stability.
- Problems between The Remains are considered problems between the Leading Territories.
- The Remains who do not sign allegiance are not protected by the laws of the Accords.
- Each Leading Territory will have an Academy to teach people how to use their power to benefit themselves and others for safety and stability.
- Civilians are expected to learn to control their powers, or be subject to the Leading Territories personal laws.
Each Leading Territory was then given ample time to write their own laws and have them approved by a joint counsel of Leading Territory Presidents to make sure they were humane, and not breaking Accord laws.
New Advances and Current Life
With no technology from the Pre-War era still functioning, or having any real hope of reuse or repurpose, the Leading Territories met together to come up with a solution. Based loosely on Qi energy itself, they figured out how to harness a pure energy, cleaner than any other previous power source and more productive. Needing very little attention or maintenance to keep up, one or two facilities could power entire Large Territories. Vehicles were repaired and fashioned to run off of this new energy, allowing the Leading Territories to not only regain the technological advancements of old, but surpass them by many generations.
That is not to say Technology is easy or easily come by. Qi Engines, Crystal energy, People Batteries. There is no extent that wasn't tried to bring power and infrastructure back to the world. There exist Vehicles that run on clean Qi engines, there are cell phones that feed through crystals on residual qi energy in the air around us. Radio's and Television. They exist, they are a part of life, however... Not every territory is so lucky for it to be available to them. Some territories have a single central town with a single TV for information. Or one running vehicle to support agriculture. A lot of places are still experiencing a Dark or Medieval ages level of technology.
Some territories are even further advanced than the rest, with computer like devices, scanners, drones, robots, and other technological qi advances.
Current Life is fairly simple. People hunt, forage, manufacture and invent much like they used to. They barter, buy, and sell with the worlds new products and commodities are about as the rest. Phones, eye wear, personal computers, clothes, and a very limited amount of things have not benefited from this new technology.
The bad of current life is fairly bad. A Feral existence haunts the world, leaving animals exposed, awoken to, or even drugged into obtaining powers like humans. Referred to as “Qi Beasts,” they are highly aggressive and territorial. They came in a variety of forms, from giant scorpions capable to demolishing entire buildings to some sort of mythological mutations capable of leveling entire mountain ranges. Or so the tales would have you believe.
Not everyone benefits from the new tech or power sources, either. The Leading Territories are not always completely open or generous with what they have so as to maintain whatever advantages they can. Leaders from the War maintain that type of thought, even in this long standing time of peace.