| From: | Gabriel Sims <grendel_22@*******.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Quarantine History |
| Date: | Thu, 4 Sep 1997 13:48:55 PDT |
>From: MC23 <mc23@**********.com>
>
> Before the human race was throwing themselves at the stars the world
>that would be known as Quarantine was a dead planet. The ultimate
battle
>between Good and Evil had all ready been fought. The Evil was defeated
>only with the sacrifice of the whole planet. The world remained dead
for
>a millennium.
> With the advent of space travel and exploration, Quarantine was
>discovered by human colonist. Finding it a dead world, it was perfectly
>suited for their needs. The world was terra formed and supported life
>once again. This would be their downfall.
> The process of terra forming revived the ancient Evil. Over the
>years that the colonists built their new world the Evil restored its
>power. The Evil had the power to influence, control and even corrupt
>machines primarily through their A.I.'s. It even started to have other
>effects on the colonists. The colonists started to demonstrate bizarre
>abilities that others would start to describe as magic. Most of these
>abilities gave the settlers power to interact with machines in amazing
>ways.
> Once the Evil was ready it acted. The greatest
of the defense
>computers fell under its sway and swept the planet into war. Many of
the
>computerized defenses succumbed to the Evil's calling. Those settlers
>that developed their machine-magic abilities were also victims of its
>corruption. The whole planet was in a civil war. Outbreaks even spread
to
>the other bases in the system.
> Once the knowledge that the Evil's influence is passed by machines
>through proximity, the other planets quarantined the system from the
rest
>of the universe. The colonists were left to defend themselves alone. A
>last ditch offensive was launched against the Evil stronghold. For the
>second time the Evil was defeated, but this time neither side was fully
>vanquished.
> Quarantine was left a scorched world. Those that survived rebuilt
>their cities into city-states. The robots and A.I.'s that were
>uncorrupted were given stronger shielding to resist the electron storms
>that plague the planet. These Electron storms corrupt the computer
brains
>in all machines and break up communications, further isolating the
>city-states. Many of the old machines can no longer be repaired since
the
>loss of resources and computer stored knowledge during the war. Archaic
>technology has often been used in replacement for its modern
>counterparts. As the years passed the threat of the Evil is forgotten
as
>the survivors went about restoring their lives.
> Packs of beasts, wild uncontrolled "dumb" robots, now roam the
>wastes. Bioengineered creatures still lurk in the old laboratories that
>labored under the Evil's presence. City-states war against each other
out
>of
>paranoia and over resources. The A.I.'s and humans from the Evil's
forces
>gather their personal armies for their own agendas. Rumors of the Evil
>reviving once again has started to spread. This is the current age of
>Quarantine.
>
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