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BACKGROUND

Two nations, Tarsin and Yierrus, who occupy the planet of Archon have historic tension between them due to do their unwavering desires to be the dominant force on the planet. During their most recent war, Yierrsite Scientists were under the belief that they had confirmed what had long been suspected. There was a strategic resource lying dormant underneath Spire Mountain, located in the borderzone between the two opposing forces. These scientists discovered massive spikes of energy coming from below the mountain, and they deduced that it could only be some vast power source. One that could supercharge Yierrus’s gear to give them an edge over the Tarsinians. The only way to get there in time was to blow through the rock with explosive charges. Tarsinian spies planted within the Yierrsite Science Division caught wind of this plot, and quickly informed their superiors, who planned to use the same method to extract the resource before Yierrus could. The two powers, under the veil of night, unknowingly detonated charges on opposite sides of the mountain, as roughly the same time…
They did not uncover a strategic resource of any kind….
Instead they unearthed something much worse, much more detrimental than any war they could wage. A parasitic network–which would later be known across the continent as “The Blight”– had been feeding away at the decomposing biomass left behind by the victims of war for a very, very long time. The network spanned miles and, as the death toll grew higher and higher, it only expanded more and more. It was only fate that both factions would bomb their way into the heart of the parasite in the name of annihilating the other.
As they watched The Blight eat away at the excavation teams, both nations knew what they had done, and by proxy what needed to be done. It was time to call off all hostility and to put in place a truce so they could figure out how to deal with this threat to society as they knew it. They called themselves “The Coalition For Continued Survival” (CFCS)

OPERATION ARK

The plan they came up with would take minimum of a decade of research. Some of which they collectively already had, but the more crucial components still had yet to be invented. The Ark Project was a colonization effort. The CFCS would build a massive colony ship, one to rival any city on the planet, and they would leave for safer grounds, perhaps one day returning to wipe out the parasite once and for all. Because land travel wasn’t an option and comms towers were constantly being overrun by The Blight, Tarsinian and Yierssite officials elected to meet personally in each other’s major cities to do research and development of the ship, using air travel as their proxy.

THE EFFORT

Years went by and the Ark was nearly complete. The Blight, however, had finally figured out what The CFCS is up to. A new Anti-Air form of the parasite had taken evolved, making air travel more perilous. But The CFCS was too close to give up. They persisted on the project. But The Blight had other plans, it was smarter than they had anticipated. Forms of pure biomass were now taking to the skies, making air travel nigh impossible. The Blight had been occupying the space between the two nations ever since it escaped its tunnel systems. This area, dubbed by the planet’s populace as “No Man’s Land”, was getting bigger and bigger as more and more cities were lost to the parasite. Nowhere to go, The CFCS began doing their research separate from one another at a significantly slower pace. Yierrus realized that The Ark, in its current state, was suitable for short-term space travel. They needed only to finished production of the Slip Space Drive Core. Archon was the only planet in their system, and they had known it for a long time. The plan was always to escape to another system where The Blight could never reach them.

THE BETRAYAL

Yierrus eventually finished the core and placed it in the heart of the Ark, which was docked in their capital city where it was deemed safest from The Blight. Without warning, they began the departure protocol. Acting President Gage, the leader of Tarsin‘s provisional government, however, took notice, and opened up a comms channel with The Ark. He begged them not to leave, and in particular he reasoned with Paragon Steele, Yierrus’s leader, that if they left, they would be condemning the populace of an entire nation to the worst possible fate, one worse than death. Now exiting orbit, it was too late to turn back now. Steele vowed he would return with the means to eradicate The Blight and save Tarsin, and it was then that comms were severed due to a technical fault on the Ark. Gage had lost hope.

THE AFTERMATH

The denizens of Tarsin and those from Yierrus who had been abandoned, now calling themselves “The Condemned” had two options. Survive by the skin of their teeth hoping that Steele’s promise was true, or take the fight directly to The Blight. As the leader of The Condemned, Gage would ultimately have to make that decision. Time was running out, and he didn’t know what to do.