Notes on Marianus
After the First Empire War Aten meets a geneticist with whom he forms a relationship, together as a crowd control measure they create a series of under water cities, or at least that was the plan.
Marianus
Oceanus
Aquirianus
But they only managed to create Marianus before plague and infertility issues begin to affect all three empires. Tiamat his partner created a special race of slaves from the three landape subspecies of homosapien and themselves (another homosapien subspecies) inorder to have a race of slaves that could cope with being surrounded by water – an issue they had had.
It quickly becomes apparent that the new land/aquatic apes are much better than the other slaves and are harnessed by the Empires as their own population crashes due to environmental pollution and inbreeding.
The city is designed to be self sufficient but is not quiet finished when plague strikes and kills the daughter Aten and Taimat have. In her anguish, Tiamat comes up with the placenta trees as the years roll by and it becomes obvious that having another natural child is just not going to happen. The placenta trees where designed for her hybrid slaves and she realises they do not have much time so she hacks her existing technology but it means there is a high failure rate.
She creates her and Aten’s son Morlock, as he grows up she becomes more and more desperate to have her daughter back, as does Aten. They both become obsessed with the long term survival issues and the purity of the race but in different ways.
A skism of the Empires occurs and Taimat goes home leaving Aten with Morklock who is a sociopath. Aten continues to try and send supplies to the under water city but get embroiled in various schemes to save his people including making sure that the empires continue to speak enough that the forth optronic core at Babel is allowed to take back ups of their systems.
One Empire becomes increasingly more seperatist but due to Tiamat, Aten keeps a vague connection and manages to organise a life saving genetic manipulation within it so that they do not all die from plague. But Tiamat is becoming steadily more believing of the dogma surrounding her.
Aten is becoming more obsessed with making sure there is actually a life eternal here on Earth. He realises that the Empires are heading for another war – one he fears they will not survive so he arranges for the Tower of Babel (a super computer) to be dismanteled and sent down to Marianus. With plans of building another one, which get underway straight away.
The three ocean empires are destroyed in a second Empire War and Aten looses contact with the under water city and thinks it’s destroyed. Tiamat has engineered this but has her own issues to deal with and thinks that it is also lost.
So the city has been left at the edge of survival for millenia, but knowledge of it still exists and so every now and then explorers head out to find it and often meet with a sticky end but not always.
This means that new blood goes in and old knowledge leaks out. It has ended up covered in a thick layer of foram ooze and looks like a creater or large sump hole type structure. There are versions and distortions of the placenta trees and wetware super computers which are great ancient tentical creatures that can jack into your brain.
The people know of the outside world and wish to remain safe so can be heavy handed with intruders.
Posted: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:16 pm
Categories: Inspiration, The Punks World.
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