Prologue
After the Syntai
arrived, everything changed on Earth - for the better it seemed. The Syntai people had integrated into our
society perfectly, and the planet as a whole became as peaceful as the Syntai seemed. I personally hadn’t ever interacted with
them, but they appeared to be like everyone else on this world. They had families, their children went to
school, the adults went to work, and for the most part they were upstanding
citizens. My father had said that the
Syntai were an extremely intelligent race.
He had told me how they took high ranking positions in the military, the
medical field, and some were even working with the government leaders. Like us humans, some were amazingly gifted,
while the others just lived a life that simply made them happy.
It was after my
sixteenth birthday when history began repeating itself. Through the history of human life every so
many years there would be a war waged against a certain type of people,
claiming that they were dangerous and cruel.
This time, however, the general public was not as quick to jump on
board. We were not going to go up
against a race just because they were different. The media eagerly led us to believe that the
Syntai were attacking our cities, but stories slowly began to leak out about
government paranoids capturing the Syntai and killing them long before the
first attack.
The Global Government
dished out propaganda, and the media all too willingly fed it to us, lacing it
with as much fear as they could. They
began blaming the Syntai for the sudden changes in the atmosphere, the weather,
the growing deserts, the disappearance of people, and even the destruction of
whole cities. They argued that the
Syntai had strategically placed themselves within our society to destroy the
human race. Not all of us bought into it,
especially since we had another feed of information, which took the government several
years to find its source and shut it down.
This illegal feed of information was known as
The Underground. It had been around for
years, but had fallen silent shortly after the awareness of Syntai integration was
peaceful among the nay-sayers. It wasn’t
until the government had begun weaving its web of lies did the Underground
reconnect with the world. According to
the Underground, it was the Global Government behind what had happened, that the
cities that were destroyed - killing practically everyone who lived there - were
actually war zones between the government and the Syntai. The problem was that it was not clear who
struck first.
After The
Underground was silenced, the government began to openly strike down the Syntai
and anyone who tried to help, causing
the human race to divide. Soon
everything was in chaos. No one knew who
to trust. It wasn’t long before people
began trying to take matters into their own hands, and the hope for a peaceful
resolution quickly disappeared.
The Global Government
had lost control and raised its ugly head.
It created fortresses known as Facilities - very few people who were
forced to enter ever came back out. The
Global Government tightened its hold on civilization by sanctioning guidelines
that you were to follow if you wanted to live.
These rules drew a very thin line which stated that if you did not meet
their criteria then you were against them, if you challenged any of their rulings then you were
against them, if you did anything that you were told not to do then you were
against them. Many died in the uprising
that followed.
There are now three
sides you can pick from. First, is the
Iron Fist, formally known as the Global Government. The second is the Syntai, which humans didn’t
join because the Syntai had become impossible to find. There were rumors that they hadn’t left the
planet, but sightings were far and few between.
The third is the Family, a group of individuals that have bonded
together out of necessity. This is the
group that humans who have any individuality and spirit left have accepted to be
a part of - because the Iron Fist would destroy you for those two flaws.
