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History; How Earth Fell Into Shadow
Topic Started: May 26 2011, 10:12 PM (7 Views)
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Human civilization was at it's pinnacle of advancement. Most major worldwide problems had solutions within grasp. Disease was nearly eradicated. War was neutralized. Humans lived longer and more unified with nature than ever. But all of the major institutions that had brought civilization to this point had no solution for the large asteroid that was hurdling toward Earth. In the small amount of time given, the brightest minds from all over the World, now known as the Under Leaders, oversaw the construction of a massive survival facility built deep within the Earth's crust. With enough energy, food and water stored, the Under Earth became the only safe place on the planet when the Asteroid struck.

Scientists had predicted that the Asteroid would wipe out all life on the surface within a few months. Not only would the Asteroid along with thousands of smaller meteoroids do colossal damage, but the dust cloud resulting from the impacts would cover the sun long enough to shut down every ecosystem on the planet, killing everything.

But the scientists hadn't counted on what was riding on the Asteroid. Samples gathered from short treks to the surface shortly after the disaster showed something very intriguing to the scientists. The pieces of meteoroids were highly radiated. But they also contained a type of energy never seen or theorized before. The scientists dubbed it Shadow Energy because it's primary affect was mutating all forms of life on the surface in ways that allowed the ecosystems to survive, if in vastly different ways, in the darkness.

A few human subjects were taken below for study and were reintegrated into society but conditions above soon became hostile. The Shadow Energy seemed to grow and fill every niche that the sun had when it shone. Scientists came back with radiation poisoning and horrible deforming mutations. At the same time, the adventurers began to encounter mutated creatures that were much more hostile and harder to predict, if slightly similar to common animals in Earth that was.

That was nearly 25 years ago. Scientists speculate that the Shadow Energy has been fully integrated into every ecosystem and essentially recreated every creature and landscape on Earth. But they are running out of time. Resources were only supposed to last a few decades. They need to reclaim the Earth that was theirs. But to do so, they need to send a group of people to the surface who can survive in the harsh environment above and fight back. They've chosen their candidates. Those chosen are as of yet unaware of their assignment or their qualifications for which. But soon after they are sent to the surface, they'll find out that the Earth that now is, is more like home than they expected.
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