Pacificus The Man-Made Island
History of the island--
(Beginning)
--> "Way back when", a large group of scientists (around 50) were part of an expansive, elite and exclusive, laboratory. They were the top of their class, investigating many new and original ideas, even designing practical applications of impractical ideas, fashioning new technology, synthesizing food and other items... But then, they felt restricted by the bindings placed on them by society, so under the cover of their 'accepted' laboratory, they began to experiment in secret. The scientists delved into artificial intelligence, cloning, and robots. When the science world caught a whiff of the true natures of the experiments, they were placed under close watch. Discovered, the scientists were placed under a ban and exiled on the basis of "unethical experimentation".
Conveniently, however, some of the scientists had their hands into the steel industry, and a couple decades back, when they first began the new experiments, they bought out a couple factories and controlled them, creating this new floating steel, "Aeolium". After the exile, the group took this aeolium out to sea and began building their personal island. The decades of aeolium served them well and they had about a 50 mile diameter of an island. They fashioned aeolium trees and parks and buildings and grids, forming their own utopia.
(A couple generations later)
--> Soon conflict came to a head and trouble was brewing on the island. A division in the scientists separated, and then another... It all maximized and in an attempt to control it, they built a room. The room held the power to the island. It could control every aspect of their life. One of the scientists fashioned a chip and it was surgically implanted into the bodies of two people, near the heart. The chip held half of the password to the room, a manual over-ride to the computer system. Only the people with the chip can reprogram the computer, but they don't know the password. The people with the chip can only activate it under extreme duress, when they are completely convinced the world will end if the computer isn't stopped. Well, essentially. If the chip is removed before their death, it is deactivated. Also, the people with the chip must die a natural death ("old age"). Once again, if not, the chip is deactivated. With this first implant, the chip touched a gene code and will now only work in people with that specific gene code.
(Many generations later..."now")
--> Over the years, the island has expanded to a 150 mile diameter and 5 separate cities. The island is essentially self-serving. They have cities, factories, homes, warehouses, laboratories... They synthesize food and clothing... (They fish, too.) There are aeolium gardens; it's like the world they came from, with all the "green space", just everything is fashioned of aeolium. There is very little sickness as the environment is so controlled. There is an electrical shield to prevent detection. A group of scientists are working on a way to completely submerge the island, too. The control room now controls the power, the new robots, transportation (hover cars and boards, and the like), all the experiments, the laboratories, the technology which is their life... Everything.
A round table government controls the island. The two people with the chips are protected. Only those who perform the surgeries and those being trained to perform the next surgeries know their identity. A few select others might too. It's preventive measures. The chips have little to no interaction between themselves. It has been forgotten that the chips only hold half the password; everyone thinks it's the whole password, just two people to guard it. (A man from one of the early generations learned how to escape death, and has hidden away in one of the secret spots on the island. No one knows he exists. He is the sole living person who knows that the chips only contain half the password.)
Violence is illegal. It is strictly prohibited because the chip's identity is secret, and those-in-power and those-who-want-power are terrified that the chips will accidentally be harmed and the chip itself will deactivate, so they've gone to the extreme and violence is illegal. (That's not to say it doesn't occur...)
Two factions on the islands, the "royal" descendants of the original settlers, have decided to build a robot army. The descendents of the steel plant owners wish to storm Italy, returning to their rightful places in the world, where they have faded into unknown (Group A "SFL"). The descendents of the experimental scientists wish to protect the island, keeping everyone on it, forbidding leaving, they want to keep their little haven (Group B "The Association"). The two groups don't get along.
When our story begins, the government has just declared that making a robot army is illegal. Group A and Group B are enraged, and individually decided it would be best if they took over their government, and are making plans to kidnap one of the chip-men to override the system. They fight the government. They fight the opposing group. They're not peaceful lots. Neither want the other in control, but both don't want the current government in power.
History of the island--
(Beginning)
--> "Way back when", a large group of scientists (around 50) were part of an expansive, elite and exclusive, laboratory. They were the top of their class, investigating many new and original ideas, even designing practical applications of impractical ideas, fashioning new technology, synthesizing food and other items... But then, they felt restricted by the bindings placed on them by society, so under the cover of their 'accepted' laboratory, they began to experiment in secret. The scientists delved into artificial intelligence, cloning, and robots. When the science world caught a whiff of the true natures of the experiments, they were placed under close watch. Discovered, the scientists were placed under a ban and exiled on the basis of "unethical experimentation".
Conveniently, however, some of the scientists had their hands into the steel industry, and a couple decades back, when they first began the new experiments, they bought out a couple factories and controlled them, creating this new floating steel, "Aeolium". After the exile, the group took this aeolium out to sea and began building their personal island. The decades of aeolium served them well and they had about a 50 mile diameter of an island. They fashioned aeolium trees and parks and buildings and grids, forming their own utopia.
(A couple generations later)
--> Soon conflict came to a head and trouble was brewing on the island. A division in the scientists separated, and then another... It all maximized and in an attempt to control it, they built a room. The room held the power to the island. It could control every aspect of their life. One of the scientists fashioned a chip and it was surgically implanted into the bodies of two people, near the heart. The chip held half of the password to the room, a manual over-ride to the computer system. Only the people with the chip can reprogram the computer, but they don't know the password. The people with the chip can only activate it under extreme duress, when they are completely convinced the world will end if the computer isn't stopped. Well, essentially. If the chip is removed before their death, it is deactivated. Also, the people with the chip must die a natural death ("old age"). Once again, if not, the chip is deactivated. With this first implant, the chip touched a gene code and will now only work in people with that specific gene code.
(Many generations later..."now")
--> Over the years, the island has expanded to a 150 mile diameter and 5 separate cities. The island is essentially self-serving. They have cities, factories, homes, warehouses, laboratories... They synthesize food and clothing... (They fish, too.) There are aeolium gardens; it's like the world they came from, with all the "green space", just everything is fashioned of aeolium. There is very little sickness as the environment is so controlled. There is an electrical shield to prevent detection. A group of scientists are working on a way to completely submerge the island, too. The control room now controls the power, the new robots, transportation (hover cars and boards, and the like), all the experiments, the laboratories, the technology which is their life... Everything.
A round table government controls the island. The two people with the chips are protected. Only those who perform the surgeries and those being trained to perform the next surgeries know their identity. A few select others might too. It's preventive measures. The chips have little to no interaction between themselves. It has been forgotten that the chips only hold half the password; everyone thinks it's the whole password, just two people to guard it. (A man from one of the early generations learned how to escape death, and has hidden away in one of the secret spots on the island. No one knows he exists. He is the sole living person who knows that the chips only contain half the password.)
Violence is illegal. It is strictly prohibited because the chip's identity is secret, and those-in-power and those-who-want-power are terrified that the chips will accidentally be harmed and the chip itself will deactivate, so they've gone to the extreme and violence is illegal. (That's not to say it doesn't occur...)
Two factions on the islands, the "royal" descendants of the original settlers, have decided to build a robot army. The descendents of the steel plant owners wish to storm Italy, returning to their rightful places in the world, where they have faded into unknown (Group A "SFL"). The descendents of the experimental scientists wish to protect the island, keeping everyone on it, forbidding leaving, they want to keep their little haven (Group B "The Association"). The two groups don't get along.
When our story begins, the government has just declared that making a robot army is illegal. Group A and Group B are enraged, and individually decided it would be best if they took over their government, and are making plans to kidnap one of the chip-men to override the system. They fight the government. They fight the opposing group. They're not peaceful lots. Neither want the other in control, but both don't want the current government in power.
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