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Archon: The New AgeYear 21XX

Archon

Novus Aevum

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Archon: The New AgeYear 21XX

In the world today, technology has advanced to an extreme degree to that of our past technology; all beings travel almost entirely by flight, death by medicalinsufficiency is less than a three percent chance at best, overall intelligence of thehuman race has nearly doubled in the last century, and all life takes place a mileabove the surface of earth. The development of land suspension was not a result of diligent research, but a desperate attempt to escape from the plague which nowconsumed the earth below; what scientists named the devil’s children, or the fiends.Nine years ago, in the year 21xx, Scientists began to develop a new form of radar that could detect forms of energy rather than heat or movement. Upon doingits first real test run, an unusually powerful surge of energy was discovered. At first,the scientists thought the energy was a bug, but upon testing once more they foundthat the energy surge was in fact a true surge, and came from 100 kilometers belowthe surface in what was thought to be a solid lithosphere. After much delegationwith the world’s leaders, the scientists constructed a deep drill named ‘Honey Bee’as their means to extract the ‘honey’ of the earth. Also in high debate, the ultimateconclusion of where the drill was to be set up in a remote location on the earth for aharvesting colony to prevent any potential backfires on the main lands. At last, theearth’s powers, Europa, United States, Japan, and the Chinese Alliance,commissioned the beginning of the harvest, setting the ‘Honey Bee’ in the center of the Republic of Congo.After two days, the first barrel of the new energy surfaced from the HoneyBee’s line. Research began immediately upon its arrival, the scientists doing testafter test in hopes of being the first to discover the true potential of this newenergy. After only a few hours, the new energy was measured and recalculated; byrough sketches, the scientists had calculated that the energy could supply power forentire cities for about a month in all forms of energy with only a liter of the liquid. The scientists were ecstatic about the discovery, already planning a way tointegrate it into their energy systems at the compound. The best news yet of theday was that the projected amount of the liquid beneath the surface was more than100,000 gallons. The humans believe they had just found their life-time warranty to all thingsinvolving energy, and to some extent that was true.Everyone knows there’s always a price to pay.Day Thirty seven of harvesting; a distress signal was sounded from the centerof the harvesting colony, beginning at the gathering unit. Moments later, the labsounded the alarm, followed by the gate guard soon after all in one chain reaction.Reinforcements from one of the nearby cities arrived fifteen minutes later, only tosound their distress signal as well. In one flurry of signals, the whole world was sentinto confusion; what had caused all of this? Why did it begin in the center ratherthan the outside? The world leaders, scientists, and ambassadors went into a wild fury, blamingeach other, trying to cause someone to come up and take the blame. However, asmall group of scientists rose to demonstrate that, in fact, no human could havedone it; being by the nature of the distress signals, and the difference in time thatthe new team of men arriving at the scene depicts that it was no bomb as some hadpresumed, and there was no mercenary team capable of such an attack, soundoubtedly, no human had done it.Even with evidence before them, the leaders did not hesitate to shut downthe scientists in their claim of ‘outside forces’ imposing an attack. It was utternonsense.

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Archon: The New AgeYear 21XX

Day Thirty eight of harvesting; an investigation team was dispatched to thecolony. All were expertly trained, and armed with the best of the world’s weaponryfor such an occasion. As they neared the gates, the men began to whispercomplaints to each other about how the air stank of death and decomposition as if athousand bodies lie dead around them. Commander Barrows, leader of theinvestigation, was a master tactician, and as such, had his team spread out beforearriving to the gates, to split up his twenty men into five toons of four. As theyneared the gate, the men tried to spot the cause of the distress calls the day before. They did.As Commander Barrows and his three men neared another entrance, theypeered into the colony to see horrific creatures stalking the grounds. They lookedlike deformed abominations, and appeared to be feeding on the dead bodies; it wasa disgusting sight. As the men prepared to fire their guns, Barrows turned on hisshoulder camera. Almost as soon as the camera turned on, a shriek more cringingthan anything human pierced the air; the creatures knew they were there.At this point, the video that Barrows was recording was being fed live to theentire world, displayed for the human population to witness the greatest threat everto arrive in history. The entire world watched in horror at the freakish creatures thatwalked ominously through the grounds, even crying in silence of the men who wereabout to die in the name of their country. Even their families watched, truly cryingwith the knowledge of their impending doom, even the commander’s only childwatched. The young Ethan Barrows was only seven years of age since a few days ago,yet he understood what was happening on the television screen, or at least what itwould mean for him; dad wasn’t coming home. As the boy watched the screen withhis intense, non-emotional expression, the female teachers of his school came tohim, trying to comfort him, make him feel better, though they did all the crying forhim. In his mind he tried to justify things; he had no reason to cry right? His fatherwas going to go down in history as a hero, the man who revealed the earth’sgreatest threat; he had to be proud of his father. Not to mention, Ethan was now thecarrier of the Barrows name, and his father’s legacy; this was no time for crying. The world had its eyes focused on every move that Commander Barrows andhis team made, watching as a horrendous giant arose from a crater within thecompound and busted down the front gate. For what seemed like only a fewminutes, rapid gunfire and screams sang through the world, striking fear into thehearts of the whole world. The people watched as creatures died, and soldiers fell,and could only pray to whatever god they had for salvation from these creatures.Day one of new grounds; the energy gathered in the thirty-eight days of harvest has fueled the discovery of an abundance of new technologies; theapplication of archon energy to the blood stream supplies an adrenaline rush thatallows a single human to exude strength to that of one-thousand percent of his orher original strength. In the medical field, archon energy can provide a stimulant toallow one to remain alive for an extended period during a heart or brain transplant,reducing the death rate to a mere two percent. However, these discoveries werepushed aside as the most crucial discovery was the ability to levitate large masseshigh above sea level. Almost immediately, the leaders of the global economy putthis new technology into effect, issuing a global evacuation. With the main citieshigh above the earth, they had escaped the fangs of the beast, but it was still closebehind.

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