The Genesis

By the more accurate version apparently, this place is Earth. Or was.

But legend being legend; what can you trust of so much verbal account? Especially since each culture have their own variance of the story.

Rumor has it that long ago the ones they called the Ancestors or the pre-builders had spread around throughout the Heavens and the stars. There, they had colonies very similar to here, with settlements, but somehow they lost contact in between them.

Around the time when a second sun emerged in the sky, there were great tribulations. So a part of the Ancestor went underground.

Their secluded civilization progressed in proper balance, working with nature as well as technologies. Technologies that would, for the most part, been labeled of “magic” in the present time. But back then, it was basic technology, simply. They were highly developed, wise and nonviolent. They used mechanic men (humanoid and robots, probably) to compensate for the weak of their number.

Till one day, suddenly, everything changed!

That ambiguous part made no unanimity around.

One thing correlates in between every story heard: all came from one single individual: A man.

All the goods that endured and was preserved for a great deal of time, as the legends recall, cease by the deed of one single man.

Illness of the spirit gets upon him and by him, all the breathing being in the cities where render non-existent.

Was it a biological war that wiped them all out? It is more likely since nothing that was biologic or partly biological live to tell the tale passed that date back in time.

It left those mechanic men to themselves, seconded by the robots. So they believed.

The surface was long forgotten if they ever knew it existed.

Other legends speaks of chaos, hate, terrible pestilence, weathers challenged, mutation, exile for who ever not in the Eden underground city. And hope. Hope of the return of a savior of some sort that seemed to never came.

Eventually, in the underground city: mechanic men starts to mal-function and one after the others, they stop.

Sparse, but in steady binary communication with each others, four of the mechanic men became aware of the surface. They spy a moment and fell upon humans beings.

Following the report, they were sent in mission to discover if these could repair all the mechanic men.

They got there in order to finds Creators among them. All they found out, to their despair, was human reduce to mediaeval ways of life.

So they divide among them to educate elite of them, in order to make them able of what they were before.

One of their practices was to create a new generation of android. Those were only an apprenticing, but despite the mechanic men were wises, that experiment turn awry. The new generation of mechanic men tried to destroy the Four and to dominate the weak humans.

One of the old mechanic men takes a few humans with him and made a floating city to protect them and him, . He wanted to continue his setup assignment as far as he could, undisturbed.

Another fled over the mountain, and by the time the army of man and the new generation of mechanic men have reached her, she had raised a force field to protect what she called her territory. Few that tried to pass ended up reduce to a black mark on the ground.

The Four didn’t want to make war; they wanted only to save the “plan”. That’s one of the major contentious point in the legend as one describe the old mechanic men as cunning and wanting to preserve mankind in ignorance so they could be the domination over them, and others saw them as the saviors that were announced would come, persecuted and misunderstood benevolent being.

The two remaining mechanic men stayed in communication and took some times in the to conceive a supra-human that would have the capability to be amphibian. They split those and settle under water. For a time, it was save. was by then a sea too deep for anyone would dive from above. The new generation of mechanic men were not waterproof. They could sustain rain, not bath. So two settlements were established: One in the East, the other farther in the north. They continue as well to work and transmit as much knowledge they could so those supra-human will eventually take the place of the creator. But above the water, though now totally in control of the remnant of humans and enjoying sort of power, the new generation of mechanic men coveted what ever was below or over that they could not get. So periodically, they were trying anything they could. They could little.

At that time, legends went that the saviors fell asleep and that they would come back again in some part of this world.

Years passed and most reasonable people would tell you that this is just but legend. That there is nothing outside the known and conquered territory around . That everything of this is but a child tales to coerce weak minds to obey and behave.

Both world were separate and disinterest one of the others. Ignoring their existences. Only dirt-standing leaders after leader kept yearning for revenge. There is quite an amount of record of this in the political annals. They were brewing something.

The old mechanic men tried all to be but forgotten and never prepared for what was to come, not hostile. They only strove to fulfill their goal. They knew that the new generation had a major flaw in their program, so time was on their side!

And time passes, indeed, has the number of mechanic men second generation decreased, but their madness and cruelty toward human increased.

Soon everyone was equipped with an implant, control was total upon one living on the ground. was fortified to protect the Gods, because the last mechanic men second generation self-proclaimed themselves as being gods to venerate and obey.

Genocides became something current; there were frequent inspection of the humans and cleansing. Defective humans were sent out, founding settlement to survive in between them and by themselves. Scavenging upon left-over. The one old mechanic men that fled and made a floating city, like a big island in the air, mingled more in the matter because of those rejected humans. The men of this mobile city developed a keen sense of traders and saw a real potential into circulation of goods between all the settlements. No one had to know where it came from, as long as they needed it, they would exchange for it.

That’s how a crystal coming from under the sea was introduced to the humans above the sea line: Blue water. Potent and helpful for the supra human, it sow but slavery and addiction above. It suppressed the need to sleep and in such, the government enforced every one to take of it so to be considered serviceable for the city. Or it was the exile.

It has a lot of side effect, but they were showing only after a relatively long period and in such, it was socially acceptable, then wish-able to do so. The side effects will be discussed later on, but this gave a very efficient work force.

Finally, this gave an opportunity for The Masters of , after so many centuries, to find a suitable idea and achieve the conquest of what they could not prior: to reach one of the Four under water.

The tactic is not known to this time, but basically, it emptied a sea and created two bogs.

And so death touched the peaceful aquatic inhabitant. A War burst.

Attacked from above by the floating city, the army dispersed and lot of the once under water inhabitant found refuge in the Valley protected by the force field as other adapted to desert live and become the .

Unfortunately, their protective mentor perished in the skirmish and her lost felt terribly wrong.

Time flew after that, the implant switch gradually from a control to a useful tool under the help of the still powerful old mechanic man of the floating city and his legions of merchants.

But also gradually, the other three of the Four and the last evil android fell "asleep". Abandoned, the men continued to live till now.

They differ by their beliefs, their vocabulary, their politic positions, their ritual and their views of life cycle. One await the awakening of the Gods, the other life has they can and are revolted because the Gods forgets them.

What was learn give birth to government, clan. They commerce in between them more openly and they managed to survive in Bitterland without too many wars. Though the cauldron is always boiling somewhere. Somehow, someone never forget something it should have forgotten and no paper or treaty can stop a new conflict to erupt, be it for a simple fence in a field or two haleck more in your flock than you should.

Secluded and never spoken about stays the valley over the mountain. Although some echo can be heard over the force field of the Goddess there that should be still alive. But it is it just a hearsay?

Rewritten – 2007-08-23

Author: Allan Cargan from the Third Little Rock near the sun