World history

The Divergence
In 2037, the world changed with the development of forcefield technology. These forcefields were quickly developed to be able to take any shape, colour, or design. As a result, there was a major shift in technological developments over the next three decades, with cars being entirely converted into a mixture of a nanotechnological endoskeleton and a forcefield exterior. The roads became safer, and parking became a matter of carrying your car’s design in your pocket to be reproduced at a later time.

Androids and the creation of Artificial Intelligence
In 2039, androids were released onto the market for consumers to purchase to assist them in their life. Whether it be walking the dog or aiding the sick, no task was too big or small for a household android. These androids were serviced every few months, and provided new software and, in some cases, new hardware.

In 2055, the announcement was made that Humans had successfully developed an Artificial Intelligence that was developing through the stages of adolescence through the upgrade system. The world panicked trying to find this robot, and it eventually chose to destroy itself rather than live in fear of the Humans on the planet. Artificial intelligence got pushed back twenty years with the loss of Adam, the first AI. However, the development of androids continued with upgrades, and eventually they were almost to the point of sentience, but they lacked some distinct features such as dreams, feelings, and self-awareness.

The Plague
In 2086, as humanity prepared itself for the 25th Giant Robotic Championships – a popular worldwide multi-corporation sporting league – tragedy struck as a plague destroyed a third of the world’s population. Those who were left either showed persistent illness, or were completely immune. During the following year, the sick no longer showed many signs of illness at all, and were set up in special Quarantine Zones where they could live under the care of the immune. For those in the Quarantine Zones, life could only ever be what they made it from that point on. They started dating amongst themselves, and for the very first time in three years a man walked through the plague-sensitive gates of the Quarantine Zone completely cured. Nine months later, his wife and newborn son could pass through the gates and leave as well. A new population boom began, and for the first time in five years the world’s population was rising faster than it was falling.

The first Super
In 2103, approximately 14 years to the date since his birthday, the first child of the generation – Adam – was travelling home from school with his parents, when a man appeared out of the alley, grabbing Adam and holding a knife to his neck. His parents pleaded with the man to let him go, promising him anything they could pay. The thief refused, and plunged the knife deep into the neck of Adam, before a shot from a police officer killed the thief. As the parents held their dead, bleeding child and waited for help, a miracle happened. Adam breathed in a deep breath and coughed, and held his mother’s hand. As the paramedics arrived, he rose to his feet with no wounds on his neck to explain the massive amount of blood lost. In a moment, the world had changed from one with Humans, androids, and forcefields, to one where some Humans could disobey the very laws of physics without consequence. These powered individuals were investigated medically and found to be a subspecies of Human, and were named Supers. The Supers were widely feared. In fact, any of the generation that had come from inside the Quarantine Zones were publicly feared – some hadn’t even developed powers yet, and were taken to be used.

A world at war
By the time Adam reached the age of 18, he had grown to despise Humans and felt that they didn’t deserve to be the dominant species anymore. In 2110, the Human-Super World War broke out, during which the Supers quickly and easily dominated the Humans in terms of power and strength. The war was over quickly, and Adam declared himself the ruler of the free world from that point on, quelling any rebellion that came up against him. The final battle for the future of humanity was fought 10 years after the start of the Human-Super World War on a grassy field in the west of Sydney, Australia. A group calling themselves Humanity had stolen a very valuable Super, and Adam had gone to get her back himself. He took his strike force, and the Humans were brutally destroyed, with only Adam and his crew, the leader of the Humanity, and the girl left in the field.

The war turned on one word, uttered by the 13-year-old girl: “Now.” All at once, Adam and his team lost their powers, and Humanity took back their planet, killing the strike force and stringing Adam up in the centre of Sydney for everyone to watch him die. A peace was brokered in the time it took Adam to die, and the war was over. However, the world was not the same.

The New World
The war had destroyed all the governments, and all bureaucracy had been lost to time, and so began the process of rebuilding. As per the treaty, the Supers moved to the least populated areas, such as Australia, Africa, and Europe. These three continents formed the United Superhuman Cities of Earth country, known as the USCE, and the cities were renamed as Lestigue, Dayncam, and Bairol. Shortly after the rebuilding, tragedy struck as a Cryokinetic manifested their abilities in Dayncam and froze the entire continent in a night, killing almost everyone on the continent and affecting the climate worldwide. Rising tides resulted in the construction of giant walls around the continents to keep the water from encroaching on the land. The Dayncam disaster sent the world into a new dark age, and a new anti-Superhuman sentiment swept across the globe. The Humans at the time were more prepared, this time on the offensive.

The Superhuman Registration and Nullification Act
The previous war had given the Humans good guidelines on powers and how to combat them, and eventually, the Supers were overcome. Subsequently, the 2149 Superhuman Registration and Nullification Act was introduced. This act detailed the process of registering a Super’s abilities, how to measure their powers, and processes of nullifying the powers. The majority of the powers were able to be controlled via a chip implant or regular inoculations, and the world had become less superhuman and seemingly a more peaceful place to be a Human. The Supers were intimidated into obedience by the Human forces, and obey they did. They lived under the oppressive government regimes for almost 30 years before a revolution took place, and the nullification section of the act was removed.

The registration remained – a compromise Supers were willing to make in return for not being denied their natural powers. Earth finally adjusted to a happy medium between Supers and Humans. On the 100th anniversary of the start of the Human-Super World War of 2110, they stood united at the site of the final battle, now a large monument to Humanity, and signed the declaration of official peace and acceptance between Human society and Supers – a sentiment not everyone agreed with but accepted as the norm. Traven City was not present at the ceremony, preferring to not make the truce official law and not enforcing acceptance, an act that resulted in a mass Superhuman migration out of the city as more and more anti-Super movements continued in the city.

Legacy's revelation
Over the next 60 years, Lestigue became a bastion of science, engineering, and technological advancement. Six of the top ten technology companies in the world set up shop in Lestigue. Global upset occurred in the year 2271 when one of the companies, Legacy Technology, was exposed as a centuries-old shadow organisation with their own paramilitary force and espionage ties, found responsible for mass anti-Super sentiments and the wars they profited from. In the course of one week, everything to do with Legacy Technology’s espionage hit the internet and was circulated to all the news outlets and governments.

Traven government officials, including the president, were arrested for corruption and treason, and Traven seemed to move towards signing the declaration of peace. On the day of the signing, the remaining officials and employees of Legacy, who were apprised of the situation, were all teleported to police stations and prisons around the globe. The resulting vacuum of technological advancement that occurred in Legacy’s downfall left room for a young genius with a wife and twin children to get a foot in the door. Over the next few years, the young genius, named Jackson Carmichael, built his technology empire to a fifty-billion-dollar empire, and acquired all of the Lestigue-based competitor companies. He had also grown his family, with two more sets of twins and, lastly, a non-twinned girl.