Post by aszhra on Apr 9, 2006 15:43:55 GMT -4
Ana hails from an orbital terradome (pocket plane). An experiment of the Marae a millenia ago, to take one of the lesser races, in this case a tribe of gnomes, that already exhibited a propensity for ingenuity, and see how they would adapt and evolve in a created environment. Not much is known about why the Marae chose Ana's people, but somehow the Marae managed to copy every aspect of her tribes terrain and home. Ana's people are naturally isolationists, leaving the world even before the Marae knew of them. Perhaps it was for this reason the Marae chose them.
Centuries past, without so much as anyone even noticing, they were another races experiment. But something happened. The false ecosystem had begun to break down, the artificial environment had begun to exhibit signs that there was no one at the helm.
When her people started to question the world in which they lived, those that were chosen to go out and find out what was happening to the world that they knew. Many did not come back, but those that did spoke of a great wall hidden by vegetation. Some did climb these great walls only to find the heavens that they knew, was a clear translucent material.
More questions than answers, but Ana's people are naturally curious about all things, especially when given a riddle and the need to understand very quickly before the world they knew was destroyed.
Over the course of a few centuries, Ana's people were beginning to understand what was going on and had gone from a people of hunter and gatherers to the age of discovery in a very short time. Kites to Ornithopters, plants for weaving and wood for making gears and screws, their technology although advance had started going into a totally different direction. All their technology was naturally based.
Symbiants, Synkinetics, Crystallurgy, Psychic Manifestation, Bioenergy.
It was not until they found some five centuries after their intial discovery that their world was synthetic that they discovered the first of many Marae observation facilities. They then began to explore the within the great metal wall which was half a mile thick. There existed many denizens within that had called the wall home. Although many were hostile, some were friendly, but no where was the Marae to be found.
For some unknown reason, all the Marae had vanished. Did they die or did they simply leave?
This was the question not only asked by Ana's people but also their allies. Then her peoples technology entered an age of exploration and cooperation.
Three allies assisted their understanding, one was unlike a plant (Memory Moss), it could not move but had a perpensity to store great amounts of information and the first patch had many of Ana's people become dumb over time. Eventually, a symbiotic relationship developed and soon the moss was assisting rather than taking.
Another ally, was a strange encounter, at first, they were thought to be a crystal formation. The intial encounter was one, where many a person came away dazed or blind, but had a smile on their faces. It would seem the crystals could reveal emotions and sensation by the bending of light. These crystals were very unusual, they understood emotion but not the spoken word. It was not without understanding of synkinetics and bioenergy that Ana's people learned that if they focused their thoughts, the cystals good give thoughts form, thus enabling holographic and virtual imaging.
The third ally, was one Ana's people created, by the introduction of the moss with the crystals. A living computer. Unfortunately, these living computers are fragile and can not withstand the energies of the portal system to be found by Ana herself. Ana stepped through the portal and found herself in Trasa.
Her only companion is MX and it does not have the perpensity yet for self-guidance or a will of its own. More as a pet and a guardian.
Ana is unsure as to how to get home and tell the others where she had gone and what she has found. Her crystal computer having been destroyed by the portal and her only means to call home.
She would like so much to tell them that she found the Marae.
Centuries past, without so much as anyone even noticing, they were another races experiment. But something happened. The false ecosystem had begun to break down, the artificial environment had begun to exhibit signs that there was no one at the helm.
When her people started to question the world in which they lived, those that were chosen to go out and find out what was happening to the world that they knew. Many did not come back, but those that did spoke of a great wall hidden by vegetation. Some did climb these great walls only to find the heavens that they knew, was a clear translucent material.
More questions than answers, but Ana's people are naturally curious about all things, especially when given a riddle and the need to understand very quickly before the world they knew was destroyed.
Over the course of a few centuries, Ana's people were beginning to understand what was going on and had gone from a people of hunter and gatherers to the age of discovery in a very short time. Kites to Ornithopters, plants for weaving and wood for making gears and screws, their technology although advance had started going into a totally different direction. All their technology was naturally based.
Symbiants, Synkinetics, Crystallurgy, Psychic Manifestation, Bioenergy.
It was not until they found some five centuries after their intial discovery that their world was synthetic that they discovered the first of many Marae observation facilities. They then began to explore the within the great metal wall which was half a mile thick. There existed many denizens within that had called the wall home. Although many were hostile, some were friendly, but no where was the Marae to be found.
For some unknown reason, all the Marae had vanished. Did they die or did they simply leave?
This was the question not only asked by Ana's people but also their allies. Then her peoples technology entered an age of exploration and cooperation.
Three allies assisted their understanding, one was unlike a plant (Memory Moss), it could not move but had a perpensity to store great amounts of information and the first patch had many of Ana's people become dumb over time. Eventually, a symbiotic relationship developed and soon the moss was assisting rather than taking.
Another ally, was a strange encounter, at first, they were thought to be a crystal formation. The intial encounter was one, where many a person came away dazed or blind, but had a smile on their faces. It would seem the crystals could reveal emotions and sensation by the bending of light. These crystals were very unusual, they understood emotion but not the spoken word. It was not without understanding of synkinetics and bioenergy that Ana's people learned that if they focused their thoughts, the cystals good give thoughts form, thus enabling holographic and virtual imaging.
The third ally, was one Ana's people created, by the introduction of the moss with the crystals. A living computer. Unfortunately, these living computers are fragile and can not withstand the energies of the portal system to be found by Ana herself. Ana stepped through the portal and found herself in Trasa.
Her only companion is MX and it does not have the perpensity yet for self-guidance or a will of its own. More as a pet and a guardian.
Ana is unsure as to how to get home and tell the others where she had gone and what she has found. Her crystal computer having been destroyed by the portal and her only means to call home.
She would like so much to tell them that she found the Marae.