Archon: The New Age

Year 21XX

Archon
Novus Aevum

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In the world today, technology has advanced to an extreme degree to that of

our past technology; all beings travel almost entirely by flight, death by medical
insufficiency is less than a three percent chance at best, overall intelligence of the
human race has nearly doubled in the last century, and all life takes place a mile
above the surface of earth. The development of land suspension was not a result of
diligent research, but a desperate attempt to escape from the plague which now
consumed the earth below; what scientists named the devil’s children, or the fiends.
Nine years ago, in the year 21xx, Scientists began to develop a new form of
radar that could detect forms of energy rather than heat or movement. Upon doing
its first real test run, an unusually powerful surge of energy was discovered. At first,
the scientists thought the energy was a bug, but upon testing once more they found
that the energy surge was in fact a true surge, and came from 100 kilometers below
the surface in what was thought to be a solid lithosphere. After much delegation
with the world’s leaders, the scientists constructed a deep drill named ‘Honey Bee’
as their means to extract the ‘honey’ of the earth. Also in high debate, the ultimate
conclusion of where the drill was to be set up in a remote location on the earth for a
harvesting colony to prevent any potential backfires on the main lands. At last, the
earth’s powers, Europa, United States, Japan, and the Chinese Alliance,
commissioned the beginning of the harvest, setting the ‘Honey Bee’ in the center of
the Republic of Congo.
After two days, the first barrel of the new energy surfaced from the Honey
Bee’s line. Research began immediately upon its arrival, the scientists doing test
after test in hopes of being the first to discover the true potential of this new
energy. After only a few hours, the new energy was measured and recalculated; by
rough sketches, the scientists had calculated that the energy could supply power for
entire cities for about a month in all forms of energy with only a liter of the liquid.
The scientists were ecstatic about the discovery, already planning a way to
integrate it into their energy systems at the compound. The best news yet of the
day was that the projected amount of the liquid beneath the surface was more than
100,000 gallons.
The humans believe they had just found their life-time warranty to all things
involving energy, and to some extent that was true.
Everyone knows there’s always a price to pay.
Day Thirty seven of harvesting; a distress signal was sounded from the center
of the harvesting colony, beginning at the gathering unit. Moments later, the lab
sounded the alarm, followed by the gate guard soon after all in one chain reaction.
Reinforcements from one of the nearby cities arrived fifteen minutes later, only to
sound their distress signal as well. In one flurry of signals, the whole world was sent
into confusion; what had caused all of this? Why did it begin in the center rather
than the outside?
The world leaders, scientists, and ambassadors went into a wild fury, blaming
each other, trying to cause someone to come up and take the blame. However, a
small group of scientists rose to demonstrate that, in fact, no human could have
done it; being by the nature of the distress signals, and the difference in time that
the new team of men arriving at the scene depicts that it was no bomb as some had
presumed, and there was no mercenary team capable of such an attack, so
undoubtedly, no human had done it.
Even with evidence before them, the leaders did not hesitate to shut down
the scientists in their claim of ‘outside forces’ imposing an attack. It was utter
nonsense.
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Day Thirty eight of harvesting; an investigation team was dispatched to the

colony. All were expertly trained, and armed with the best of the world’s weaponry
for such an occasion. As they neared the gates, the men began to whisper
complaints to each other about how the air stank of death and decomposition as if a
thousand bodies lie dead around them. Commander Barrows, leader of the
investigation, was a master tactician, and as such, had his team spread out before
arriving to the gates, to split up his twenty men into five toons of four. As they
neared the gate, the men tried to spot the cause of the distress calls the day before.
They did.
As Commander Barrows and his three men neared another entrance, they
peered into the colony to see horrific creatures stalking the grounds. They looked
like deformed abominations, and appeared to be feeding on the dead bodies; it was
a disgusting sight. As the men prepared to fire their guns, Barrows turned on his
shoulder camera. Almost as soon as the camera turned on, a shriek more cringing
than anything human pierced the air; the creatures knew they were there.
At this point, the video that Barrows was recording was being fed live to the
entire world, displayed for the human population to witness the greatest threat ever
to arrive in history. The entire world watched in horror at the freakish creatures that
walked ominously through the grounds, even crying in silence of the men who were
about to die in the name of their country. Even their families watched, truly crying
with the knowledge of their impending doom, even the commander’s only child
watched.
The young Ethan Barrows was only seven years of age since a few days ago,
yet he understood what was happening on the television screen, or at least what it
would mean for him; dad wasn’t coming home. As the boy watched the screen with
his intense, non-emotional expression, the female teachers of his school came to
him, trying to comfort him, make him feel better, though they did all the crying for
him. In his mind he tried to justify things; he had no reason to cry right? His father
was going to go down in history as a hero, the man who revealed the earth’s
greatest threat; he had to be proud of his father. Not to mention, Ethan was now the
carrier of the Barrows name, and his father’s legacy; this was no time for crying.
The world had its eyes focused on every move that Commander Barrows and
his team made, watching as a horrendous giant arose from a crater within the
compound and busted down the front gate. For what seemed like only a few
minutes, rapid gunfire and screams sang through the world, striking fear into the
hearts of the whole world. The people watched as creatures died, and soldiers fell,
and could only pray to whatever god they had for salvation from these creatures.
Day one of new grounds; the energy gathered in the thirty-eight days of
harvest has fueled the discovery of an abundance of new technologies; the
application of archon energy to the blood stream supplies an adrenaline rush that
allows a single human to exude strength to that of one-thousand percent of his or
her original strength. In the medical field, archon energy can provide a stimulant to
allow one to remain alive for an extended period during a heart or brain transplant,
reducing the death rate to a mere two percent. However, these discoveries were
pushed aside as the most crucial discovery was the ability to levitate large masses
high above sea level. Almost immediately, the leaders of the global economy put
this new technology into effect, issuing a global evacuation. With the main cities
high above the earth, they had escaped the fangs of the beast, but it was still close
behind.

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Twenty-one days later marked the first day of the Alien Alliance. After
discovering the energy signature surging from planet earth, a number of alien
forces began their conquest on recovering or inheriting the earth in turn with the
energy. To the luck of the human race, these conquerors of space and time were of a
peaceful kind, coming to assist the very future of the people. They arrived by the
millions with many still in tow; multiple races of sentient life, all willing to share their
knowledge and adaptations with the peoples of earth. They were truly the next step
of mankind.
At the third annual Alien Alliance conference, the leaders announced the new
age. Three years have passed since the forming of the Alien Alliance with the
addition of the human race. Planet earth has become just one of the many colonies,
another living space for the Alien Alliance. Across seven galaxies, over a hundred
planets, fifty-six asteroids, and twenty-three moons have been colonized for living
quarters for the forty-three races of sentient beings. September 15th had been
forever marked as the day that the many races of the Alien Alliance banded
together to create a single reigning government.
On that day the many representatives and leaders came together to create
the Galactic Federation in the name of all the colonies and races of the people. In all
the excitement of the unveiling, the people of earth had forgotten the blood-
scourged shadow that had loomed a mile beneath them on the surface world…
Ethan hadn’t.
He was the son of a hero, the heir to a true voice in the world, and within his
young mind he had set himself on the idea of making a real difference in the world
before him. However, those around him never really knew of his family history,
where his birthplace really was. He and his father were not human inhabitants, but
escapees from the planet Raikuhn, who crash landed on earth in an accidental
miscalculation. The two were of the mighty Sohren race, warriors at heart. They
were a very prideful race, yet, with the absence of any Sohren influence, the natural
pride tends to diminish to nonexistence.
Third year of the Galactic Federation, Ethan had grown up living with a
relatively good friend of his father, Julian, who was well informed of Ethan and his
father’s true blood and heritage, keeping it a secret from the world as well. Ethan
has continued his studies, staying with the human curriculum, and yet after all was
said and done; Ethan would return to his Sohren roots and train his body until he
could barely move.
Ethan was now a boy of sixteen years old, very social in the world around
him, anxious to make the step into real societal debates, ever strong in withholding
the secret in his blood, all the while entirely forgetting the manhood ritual of his
people. The day that it took place was very soon, and without a doubt, Ethan was
not ready.

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