Month: July 2021

LETTER FROM SHAE TO HER PARENTS

Father, Mother; as much as you insist on denying reality, these are not times of peace.

Our land’s leaders are either gone or have surrendered to the invader forces. The few that still hold some voice and power among us, keep on saying that subjugation is our only option. And, while this happens, we are letting our own planet bleed to death at the hands of impious invaders from beyond the stars, who have stained our fields and people with smoke, bullets and desolation. I can not take this anymore.

I am writing you today in order to tell you I have chosen the path of the warrior. I am leaving to the lands of Shuuk-Neh, where master Nelidas has accepted to take me as his disciple.

I know this news will not please you, and that it will make the name of this unfaithful Custodia Prime be erased from the family memory. Do it without hesitation. My conscience is clear, knowing that my cause is just, and that little Mae will be able to fill the void caused by my absence. Nevertheless, I have to ask you for one last favor: Before forbidding her to pronounce my name ever again, I beg you to tell her that her elder sister will always love her, no matter what. I just pray that one day you will understand my decision.

Learn more about Shae on his in-game UNIVERSE file!

Harec does not at all approve of the character of their people. He hates war and violence, but he will not hesitate to use them against injustice and abuse, no matter where they come from. Deep down, he understands perfectly well that his own people are ultimately responsible for what is happening. But he also believes that his people deserve a second chance, maybe on another planet.

It is only a matter of time until one of the factions obtains the warp drive technology that will enable them to return to Earth. The faction that does so will abandon the others on the Broken Planet and will return with a bigger army, ready to conquer, exterminate and monopolize all of the Aleph. Harec can’t let that happen. He wants all humans off his planet, unable to return ever again. To do that, Harec needs to hinder their plans as much as possible and find the warp drive technology before anyone else does. If Harec and his men also manage to eliminate the leaders of each faction, they may have a chance against the invaders.

Harec knows that he cannot challenge the invaders, with their far superior forces, head-on. He and his men will have to remain in the shadows, choose their targets very carefully and disappear as quickly as they can. The knowledge that Lycus, Alicia and Konstantin have of their respective factions will be crucial to hindering their plans, reaching their leaders and eliminating them.[[CR]]Harec knows that the humans who fight by his side do so for selfish reasons. He doesn’t care too much about that, as long as the work gets done. He won’t try to convince anyone, although he secretly harbors hope that, with time, some of them will join his fight.

Learn more about Harec on his UNIVERSE file!

The collective feeling of guilt was overwhelming and the survivors decided that the only way to continue would be to start over. To do that, they would first give up all philosophy, science and technology that would glorify or enable the expansion and dominion over other cultures, races or lifeforms. Second, applying strict birth control and genetic engineering to the embryos of their species, they would progressively roll back the genes responsible for their territorial nature, the desire to conquer, indifference to the suffering of others, cruelty, etc., until those urges were eradicated in the future. Those who didn’t agree with those principles were exiled from the Planet.

Today, hundreds of thousands of years later, this is widely known by all on the Broken Planet. What only a few know is that a group of scientists and intellectuals from back then thought that The Legacy of the Old World shouldn’t be lost; that one day in the distant future, when civilization was at peace with itself, The Legacy could be used for good. Maybe then everything would be different; maybe then they would use that power with greater care…

The so-called Protectors would be responsible for that work: After gathering all of the knowledge from the Old World, the Protectors encoded it and secretly entered it into the Aleph subatomic structure. The lineage of the Protectors would, over the centuries, guard the keys that would enable them to extract that knowledge one day, in a more favorable future: Three Protectors for Thee Keys.

Today, Harec is one of the few who knows about this. He also knows that the human invaders cannot return to their planet -the mother ship was damaged on its arrival- and that they are probably already aware of the existence of the 3 Protectors. It’s just a matter of time before one of the human factions finds them, figures out how to extract the Old World Legacy and deciphers the Warp Drive Technology that the Legacy contains. The faction that does so will be able to travel to Earth and return with a larger army that will be able to defeat the remaining factions, conquer the Broken Planet and control the only known source of Aleph in the Universe. So Harec must find the Protectors before the humans do…

Are you in the mood for a good read? Check out the Spacelords Lore in the in-game Universe screen!