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The planet was once known as Nexus. It's first discoverrers were rogue humans seeking an independent colony far from their home planet. No one knew they had left and no one followwed them. They were all alone
THey thought Nexus was un-inhabitted. The only sign of civilization that they could find was a large Marble tablet that contained the lexicon of a long-dead language. Because the planet was pleasent for humans to live and rich in resources, it was colonized by the humans. They studied this "Rosetta Stone" and began to decipher the ancient language. One of the scientiests, after figuring out the grammatical key, decided to test it by pronouncing the name of his home planet, "Earth".
Upon saying the word, space in front of him began to tear apart. A portal openned up into the empty space above Earth. The scientist was sucked in and killed.
Lab technitions reviewed the tapes and recreated the experiment, this time specifying "Mount Everest". A portal openned and a scientist stepped from a world on the opposite side of the galaxy from Earth onto the very peak of Mount Everest.
It was soon discoverred that portals could be openned from this planet to anywhere else in the universe, as long as it's name was utterred in the ancient forgotten language written on the marble tablet. Soon they discoverred more then that. The portals could lead to any place that existed or could potentially exist, allowing travel to alternate dimensions.
The planet soon became a flash-point of inter-stellar war and inter-dimensional war, as any power that controlled Nexus could send their armies anywhere instantaneously. And as portals were openned up to more alternate dimensions, the balance became more precarious as science and technology began to clash against magick and the supernatural.
People came from all over the multi-verse to Nexus.
Then one day, the portals stopped openning.
With the greatest treasure ever known seemingly gone, those with the ability to leave Nexus left. However many who had arrived at Nexus via Portal were now stranded there. Humans, aliens, sorcerers, furries, creatures known only to exist in myth, and even those who had been plucked out of the fabric of time by the portals. They were now all trapped on this planet with no way off.
Thus began the Dark Ages of Nexus. It lasted about 300 years. Because little infrastructure existed on the planet before, this period was a dog eat dog time where only the strong survived. It was a brutal age marked by death, starvation, and famine.
Over time, people realized that in order to survive on this new Nexus, they would need to band together. People of similar species, background, race, and religion began to bind together into clans. They began to set up territories where they could live in relative peace. They built villages and towns and farmed the land. This period, known as the interregnum, lasted about 200 years and is known as the Interregnum.
It wasn't long before the clans began to conflict with each other over things like land, food, weapons, religion, race, etc. It looked like the world was about to be plunged into another dark age, except this one would be worse, since it would have organized warfare.
On the brink of a major conflict, a congress of the clans was called on the site of the original Tablet that allowwed those first human settlers to travel wherever they wished. Whatever the thoughts of the clans against each other, or their desire for war, they agreed that they did not want another dark age. So, they agreed that from now on, every nine years, there would be a year-long cease-fire to give the sides time to re-coup. In order to maintain this cease-fire, the clan leaders would all send their children to the very spot they sat at. At the first sign of one of the sides breaking the cease-fire, all of the children would be summarily executed.
That was 500 years ago, when the War of the Clans began. Since then, there has been great pain and suffering on the planet of Nexus, but every nine years there is a break, giving the war-torn populace hope for peace.
It is now the 1000th year since the world of Nexus ceased to be the Gateway World, and time for the 50th year of peace since the clans began fighting each other. The children of the clan's leaders are now being brought to the neutral fortress of Rosetta...little do they know that Nexus is about to change forever.
OOC: Okay, I created this RP, because it seems like a lot of RP's have heavy restrictions on character creation. Not so here. If you can explain why a character is on Nexus and how their clan survived 1000 years, I don't care if they're a living breathing guitar pick. They're okay.
Here's the rules for now. Create your character, their clan, and their backstory, and describe their arrival at the fortress of Rosetta. Rosetta has one great gate as an entrance that leads to the site of the ancient tablet, then it leads off into various wings for each of the individual clans. Because each clan designed their own wing, you can make up what it is for your character and their clan.
So for now, just post a bio, and a post describing your character's arrival, and we'll take it from there.
I'll post my character after class. Final exam now =P
