- It certainly has been awhile, eh? Even the oldest archives no longer have a chapter on the twenty-first century. Though nature has attacked us with all her might, we humans yet persevered, and grew in number. As the landmasses drifted ever closer to each other across the Pacific, our poor planet’s surface became awash in people, people, people. Population bloomed and withered in predictable tides, and it wasn’t until a man could step from California to the Komchofka Peninsula that the old pattern vanished. Up until this point, individual countries had managed to avoid another World War even as their boundary lines blurred. You really can see Russia from your house, even if you live in Mexico City.
Fighting erupted with the Clash of Continents. The crazy militant terrorists came first, and when they were leaping here and there ‘protecting the homeland’ our governments simply couldn’t agree on what to do about them. Real conflict ensued, with the resource-starved nations doing battle much more easily than they ever had before. It became nearly impossible to live to forty in this world.
But thank heaven for evolution, even if that is something of a contradiction. There was no way for humans to bulldoze our challenges like we had done for millennia, so we did what the actual animals do. That is, we evolved. Some of us were born with far enhanced abilities, one trait that we were the absolute Epitome of. And it helped us to survive, even live on this war torn planet. Like all those with too much of a good thing, we became dangerous, both to normal humans and to ourselves. Now from our shoulders hangs a very fragile balance between public hatred and awe, and one move in the wrong direction could set off this powder keg like never before.
But thank heaven for evolution, even if that is something of a contradiction. There was no way for humans to bulldoze our challenges like we had done for millennia, so we did what the actual animals do. That is, we evolved. Some of us were born with far enhanced abilities, one trait that we were the absolute Epitome of. And it helped us to survive, even live on this war torn planet. Like all those with too much of a good thing, we became dangerous, both to normal humans and to ourselves. Now from our shoulders hangs a very fragile balance between public hatred and awe, and one move in the wrong direction could set off this powder keg like never before.
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