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Introduction
Spoiler Introduction :
Welcome to Shattered Space, a game of interstellar intrigue. To begin, allow the historical records to get you up to speed on what the galaxy is like these days.
Earth, within star system Sol, is a shadow of the past. When humanity discovered interstellar space travel through the secret of the hypergate, the race spread itself across the stars. Some planets were terraformed and settled, while others engaged in large-scale arcology construction projects. All of the new star systems formed a Federation, with Earth as its capital.
For a time, the Federation flourished. The Agency, an organization of elite police squads and sinister detectives, was the muscle of the Federation government. Rumors began to spread about the Agency's involvement in a campaign of control, and worlds beyond Earth began to hear the cries of cheated traders, murdered activists, and even religious persecution, all conducted by the hands of the Agency.
The Agency feared outright rebellion and the crumbling of the powerful structure that had built fabulous wealth and control. The Federation had a representative government, but this was simply a front. Earth acted more as the grand enforcer of an empire.
Seeking some kind of aid, the Agency's top researchers discovered the fabled system known only as Deva. Hundreds of years ago, telepaths from every area of Earth honed their mental energies and created for themselves "spaceships" which were actually manifestations of their minds acting as shells. They disappeared from Earth, settling into a system called Deva. The Agency, upon having their scholars learn of these secrets, scoured the galaxy in search of Deva. When it was finally found, the Devans had developed a unified, peaceful society based within a single system, that contained a single planet, and several moons. The Agency sent a massive star fleet and conducted large-scale orbital bombardment of the Devan settlements, murdering most of them, and enslaving many. The most powerful Devans manifested themselves into elegant and powerful spaceships (or space creatures of sorts), but they were too late. These manifestations fled, and have not been seen since.
The Agency thus began to conduct genetic and other sinister experiments on the captured Devans, infusing their most evil agents with psychic powers and raising from scratch their own psychic army. The Agency began to obtain the most powerful starfleet in the universe by using these beings as its slaves. The systems in the Federation thus began to cower in fear. They had no choice but to comply to the whims of Earth and its muscle.
These evil plots thus sparked DEIWOS. DEIWOS, a terrorist organization in the viewpoint of the Federation and the Agency, realized that the only way Earth could quickly reach other systems was because of the innovative hypergate technology. A hero of this resistance was a renegade telepath, an agent of the Agency who was genetically mind-merged with a Devan. This hero had dual personalities and two beings lived within his head. The Devan mind prevailed and purged the agent into the nether-psyche. This powerful telepath gained the trust of the Agency by committing horrendous crimes. He gained the codes to all of the galaxy's hypergates and shared them with DEIWOS. Together, they organized the systematic hacking and destruction of the hypergates. Thus, the galaxy was plunged into a Dark Ages. Communications and physical fleets took too long to reach any other members of the Federation.
Earth and the Sol system were left hopelessly alone. The turned Agency agent launched a telepathic war, freeing many of the Devan slaves and creating massive fluctuations in the "energy" of the universe. Every system outside of Sol, realizing how better their lives had become after the destruction of the hypergates, refused to reconstruct them and embraced the Dark Ages. Hundreds of years passed. The hypergates were also the source of interstellar communication. All of that was now gone.
This is where we are now. During these hundreds years, the galaxy is now on the brink of a Renaissance. All systems have discovered the individual faster-than-light-speed drives necessary to send ships from system to system without the use of hypergates. Think of a car driving from point A to point B (our current technology), instead of a whole fleet going from point A to point Z in an instant (hypergate technology, which will never be used again in this galaxy). Hypergate technology requires a powerful resource that only the Agency had control of. As part of their plan, DEIWOS and the Devan agents completely destroyed all of this resource and its mysterious "source moon".
DEIWOS no longer exists, to your knowledge. The Agency no longer exists, to your knowledge. Devans are somewhere out there. Some went insane upon learning of their brainwashing and killed many. Others were bred as slaves and have now become mercenaries. Earth has been completely destroyed, along with all moon and mars colonies. The entire system of Sol is deemed uninhabitable.
The galaxy is not only space travel and spaceships, but also one of great energy and sorcery, the source of which is the human mind. Advanced telepathy has become widely acknowledged by most star systems, as many of the Devans implanted themselves across the galaxy to teach others their ways. This has resulted in many different types of Devans, some more noble than others. Many societies still view these telepaths as evil-doers and are afraid of their power. While it is well-known that Devans exist because of past events, their existence and presence is often hidden and their numbers are small. Many Devans keep themselves anonymous or undercover, while others do not even know they have telepathic abilities. Some know they have telepathic abilities, but have no way to "train" or hone their skills.
This is the galaxy we are plunged into. Welcome to Shattered Space.
Earth, within star system Sol, is a shadow of the past. When humanity discovered interstellar space travel through the secret of the hypergate, the race spread itself across the stars. Some planets were terraformed and settled, while others engaged in large-scale arcology construction projects. All of the new star systems formed a Federation, with Earth as its capital.
For a time, the Federation flourished. The Agency, an organization of elite police squads and sinister detectives, was the muscle of the Federation government. Rumors began to spread about the Agency's involvement in a campaign of control, and worlds beyond Earth began to hear the cries of cheated traders, murdered activists, and even religious persecution, all conducted by the hands of the Agency.
The Agency feared outright rebellion and the crumbling of the powerful structure that had built fabulous wealth and control. The Federation had a representative government, but this was simply a front. Earth acted more as the grand enforcer of an empire.
Seeking some kind of aid, the Agency's top researchers discovered the fabled system known only as Deva. Hundreds of years ago, telepaths from every area of Earth honed their mental energies and created for themselves "spaceships" which were actually manifestations of their minds acting as shells. They disappeared from Earth, settling into a system called Deva. The Agency, upon having their scholars learn of these secrets, scoured the galaxy in search of Deva. When it was finally found, the Devans had developed a unified, peaceful society based within a single system, that contained a single planet, and several moons. The Agency sent a massive star fleet and conducted large-scale orbital bombardment of the Devan settlements, murdering most of them, and enslaving many. The most powerful Devans manifested themselves into elegant and powerful spaceships (or space creatures of sorts), but they were too late. These manifestations fled, and have not been seen since.
The Agency thus began to conduct genetic and other sinister experiments on the captured Devans, infusing their most evil agents with psychic powers and raising from scratch their own psychic army. The Agency began to obtain the most powerful starfleet in the universe by using these beings as its slaves. The systems in the Federation thus began to cower in fear. They had no choice but to comply to the whims of Earth and its muscle.
These evil plots thus sparked DEIWOS. DEIWOS, a terrorist organization in the viewpoint of the Federation and the Agency, realized that the only way Earth could quickly reach other systems was because of the innovative hypergate technology. A hero of this resistance was a renegade telepath, an agent of the Agency who was genetically mind-merged with a Devan. This hero had dual personalities and two beings lived within his head. The Devan mind prevailed and purged the agent into the nether-psyche. This powerful telepath gained the trust of the Agency by committing horrendous crimes. He gained the codes to all of the galaxy's hypergates and shared them with DEIWOS. Together, they organized the systematic hacking and destruction of the hypergates. Thus, the galaxy was plunged into a Dark Ages. Communications and physical fleets took too long to reach any other members of the Federation.
Earth and the Sol system were left hopelessly alone. The turned Agency agent launched a telepathic war, freeing many of the Devan slaves and creating massive fluctuations in the "energy" of the universe. Every system outside of Sol, realizing how better their lives had become after the destruction of the hypergates, refused to reconstruct them and embraced the Dark Ages. Hundreds of years passed. The hypergates were also the source of interstellar communication. All of that was now gone.
This is where we are now. During these hundreds years, the galaxy is now on the brink of a Renaissance. All systems have discovered the individual faster-than-light-speed drives necessary to send ships from system to system without the use of hypergates. Think of a car driving from point A to point B (our current technology), instead of a whole fleet going from point A to point Z in an instant (hypergate technology, which will never be used again in this galaxy). Hypergate technology requires a powerful resource that only the Agency had control of. As part of their plan, DEIWOS and the Devan agents completely destroyed all of this resource and its mysterious "source moon".
DEIWOS no longer exists, to your knowledge. The Agency no longer exists, to your knowledge. Devans are somewhere out there. Some went insane upon learning of their brainwashing and killed many. Others were bred as slaves and have now become mercenaries. Earth has been completely destroyed, along with all moon and mars colonies. The entire system of Sol is deemed uninhabitable.
The galaxy is not only space travel and spaceships, but also one of great energy and sorcery, the source of which is the human mind. Advanced telepathy has become widely acknowledged by most star systems, as many of the Devans implanted themselves across the galaxy to teach others their ways. This has resulted in many different types of Devans, some more noble than others. Many societies still view these telepaths as evil-doers and are afraid of their power. While it is well-known that Devans exist because of past events, their existence and presence is often hidden and their numbers are small. Many Devans keep themselves anonymous or undercover, while others do not even know they have telepathic abilities. Some know they have telepathic abilities, but have no way to "train" or hone their skills.
This is the galaxy we are plunged into. Welcome to Shattered Space.
