The Past Five Years
A lot has changed in five years. By and large, the public knows the story as follows: Throughout the world, entire regions seem to have been swallowed up whole, collapsing into the Earth itself. Great cities were now rubbles in the Rift as the world barreled towards apocalypse. Strange creatures – known as youma – emerge from these pits of destruction and have posed a threat throughout the world. Media attention and fingers have been pointed at the terrorist group centered in Destiny City known as the Senshi, with their “knightly” allies. Thankfully, the group known as the Negaverse has risen to full power and began to save the world like modern day superheroes.
The public and the collapsing governments of the world have embraced them, and public officials are proud to declare themselves as members. Members of the Negaverse are enjoying seats of power, and citizens are eager to become members and join the ranks to do their part. The world seems to be at peace, almost utopia (particularly in comparison to the years of utter dystopia where the apocalypse seemed to be omnipresent), with an illusion of democracy, freedom and justice.
The Negaverse’s influence on the world isn’t without resistance, however, as the Senshi and Knights have rebelled against them, declaring that everything that has happened was a conspiracy and ruse set up by the Negaverse to sway public opinion to allow for world domination.
The Negaverse are not heroes, the scattered fragments of Order cry, they are villains - when they get the chance to speak at all. They are hunted by the Negaverse and its followers, causing members of Order and their sympathizers to flee into refugee camps outside of the city, living a life on the run in the open wilderness. There, they are hunted by youma, and some say they plan a grand revolt to overthrow what they say is an evil dictatorship.
Order, of course, is right - the Negaverse is not benevolent, its General-Kings and General-Queens are not saviors. The Negaverse rules Earth with an iron fist. Those who speak against them and who are not Order tend to disappear. Sometimes they turn up broken. Sometimes they don’t turn up at all. Citizens are required to donate energy to the Negaverse’s cause, and those who do not also tend to disappear. There are reports of torture and murder, especially on those who are suspected Senshi or Knights.
Some of those who remain on the side of Order want to see diplomacy. Some just want to stay safe. Others fight back with acts that the media argues proves themselves to be the terrorists that the Negaverse says they are.
One thing is for sure: five years on, the world is nothing like it was.
