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Defiance AU Meme-ish...thing.
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In the year 2013, a group of large space ships known as Arks arrived on Earth. They were carrying thousands upon thousands of various alien races, collectively known as Votan. Their solar system had perished in a stellar collision. Their technology detected no signs of life on Earth, so they planned on terraforming it. However, five thousand years after leaving home, the Votan discovered that Earth was in fact inhabited. The humans regarded the Votan with hostility and suspicion, but still tried to get some sort of agreement met so the Votan had a place to stay.
It never happened. Years spent trying to form treaties and laws and the like were filled with growing tension until finally, right when things were getting settled, a Votan leader was assassinated on live television on the steps of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
This kicked off the Pale Wars in 2023.
At the culmination of the wars in 2030, the remaining Arks mysteriously exploded in an event called The Arkfall. It's not known whether the perpetrators were human or Votan. What is known is this set off a series of catastrophic events that changed the face of the Earth and the way of things permanently, for humans and Votans alike.
First, the deaths of thousands upon thousands of Votans that remained in stasis above.
Second, the terraforming technology on the Arks went wild. While they were meant to be used in carefully planned stages, the chaos of them activating so violently radically and horrifically changed the biosphere and even the geology of earth.
Whole towns, whole cities, even whole states and countries were destroyed, lost in chasms that ripped open or mountains that suddenly appeared. The animals on the Arks and the animals on earth mutated horrifically, creating new and dangerous breeds of creatures like the giant crustacean-like Hellbugs, creatures that act as ants and destroy anything they set their minds to. It also created hybrids of other animals like cows and pigs, and turned them into very useful and mildly delicious animals called 'pows.'
Not the finest dining ever, but fuck it. Food is food.
It also destroyed communication and long distance travel by air, the electromagnetic distortion caused by the terraformers creating too much of a dangerous mess to fly through.
The Pale Wars ended when Votan and Human alike realized they needed each other to survive the new Earth.
Small towns and city-states started forming, inhabited by Votan and human alike and one such town is Defiance.
It is now 2046, fifteen years after the Pale Wars ended. humans and votans are struggling to rebuild. Everythings been reduced to a more savage, dark-ages-ish state. Long distance travel is still fucked, so is long-distance telecommunication. At most, text relays can be sent but it's more an electronic and heavily unreliable pony express. Messages take weeks to deliver from one radio station to another.
Welcome to Defiance.
Votan Races:
Castithan.
Irathient.
Indogene.
Liberata.
Sensoth.
Here's how this works: Post below in any of the starters with a brief AU history of who your character is and what they're doing. Tag around. Have a blast!
The NeedWant:
On the streets:
Arkfall! Arkfall! Get to it!
Hellbugs!
There's a hellbug swarm and you're stuck in it, or at least too close to it for comfort. They're mean, violent and voracious fuckers about the size of a rottweiler, and they want to eat you whole.
Will you fight them off? Will you get in your roller and flee?
Who knows! Good luck.
Forecast calls for Razor Rain and a chance of more bodily harm.
This is when bits of Ark fall from the sky. Not the good bits as mentioned above. This is essentially shrapnel. Razor sharp pieces of metal that hurtle to the ground at intense velocities. Your only bet to survive it is get inside and wait it out.