obi
06-20-2002, 05:55 AM
GATE OF DESTINY
A dark cloud hovered over the horizon, followed by icy winds it was imminent that a snowstorm would break out soon.
“Come on man, if you want to see it, I suppose you hurry up, that is if you want to reach the summit in time”
“Yeah well, Jakie, your not the carrying all the supplies eh? So cut me some slack okay?”
“Hey, the challenge was that we get to the top of the crater and take a image of the riff before Sundown”
“And who was the one who accepted it? Who, was the one who dragged me into this mess eh? Why do I let you talk me into these things?”
“Stop complaining Tiqo, we’ve done it plenty of times before,”
“Yeah but before I was warm and in a ship, not dangling 500ft of the top of the damn thing, I mean where did you get this damn old climbing gear? What is it, a thousand years old or something?”
“We’ll get through this,”
“Is it me or is it cold up here?”
“It can’t be cold up here, this is one of the most warmest places on earth. But, now that you mention it, it is quite cold. Strange.”
The riff or better known as the aroaborialas is the result of cosmic gas from the sun colliding with the earth’s atmosphere creating a nice show of lights. But in this area it can only be taken in high up areas.
Normally, this region is very hot because it is in the equatorial regions, even at this altitude.
Tiqo reluctantly continued to climb, but yet he could not figure out why it was so cold on the cliff face of the crater.
He stood up tall on the vertical cliff face he had been climbing for the last 3 hours. He looked down at 500ft drop then he looked up at the rest he had to climb.
“Jakie, how long till we get to the top?”
“About 300ft!”
“We might actually beat Challenge…(might, but probably won’t)”
An icy wind blew over the cliff face of the El Bángos crater in Africa. In 2238, an asteroid about the size of Manhattan Island fell in the North-eastern region of Africa, as did one in 2288, on the eastern side of Russia and in 2338, it crushed England and most of the European coast was washed away. During these three falls, America was showered by debris.
The second Millennium was nicknamed the Millennium of Hell as these ‘50 year’ asteroids wiped out almost all of the Earth’s population.
Only the rich, intelligent, skilled and most important survived as they were put into stasis by the worlds governments.
The world was in a Dark Iceage like state for 20 years after the third asteroid hit.
As Tiqo continued to climb something caught the corner of his eye, it was a cave. It was about 15ft away from him. He figured its’ opening was about 3m wide and 6m high and it went in quite far.
“Hey Jakie”
“Yeah Tiqo?”
“Last time we came, was there a cave here?”
“Of course not, this crater is only a thousand years old, and the only people that have been here are the Sankt Kingdom has been around 400 years, right? No could have settled here, it would be too hot, and too high”
“Well there’s a cave here but there wasn’t one before”
“We’ll check it out on the way down”
“Fine with me, how far till we be up?”
“Just under 100ft”
“Is it me or is it getting colder up here?”
During the Iceage many people died mutated viruses, many people around where the asteroids hit became mutated and acquired extra appendages.
The Sankt Kingdom appeared in the year 2900 when some weary travellers (Humans and Mutants alike) took refuge near the crater which was no longer radioactive and, was actually quite a paradise after the twenty years of darkness.
The radiation from the comet did not damage the earth in any way in fact it healed the planet and made it more ample with life.
The settlers slowly but surely, created a kingdom where everybody worked together and there were no problems. This utopian society grew into the vastly occupating Sankt Kingdom.
Of course all places, no matter how beautiful, have problems and the Sankt Kingdom was no exception.
“We made it!”
“We might not be quick enough”
“Wha?”
“Sundown in thirty seconds and the riff is fading”
Tiqo calmly ripped apart the bag in search for the holocamera…
“Jakie! we missed it”
“No we didn’t”
“What?”
“I took the liberty of removing the camera from your bag an put it in mine”
“So we got the picture? All right!”
“We’ll have to stay the night Tiqo, Get the gear out.”
“Can’t stay up here, the cp says a mach 5 snowstorm is headed our way”
“Mach 5 ? are you certain ? It shouldn’t even rain up here, let alone snow.”
“We should get down to that cave, I think it was about 100ft down”
“Hm…”
There were many organisations in the Sankt Kingdom, and almost all of then held some kind of grudge against the governors and the officials that ran the kingdom.
One of these was called Leviathan, an organisation bent on showing just how defective the system really was. Mainly run by vigilantes who had had enough of seeing innocent people whom they knew and cared about, be destroyed by the corrupted officials. They would attack areas of high importance to the kingdom, they would try to crumble it. And then one day the emperor was assassinated, nobody knew who to blame. The emperor was not born in that time, he was found in a stasis chamber near where the heart of the kingdom was originally built, on an old nuclear radiation bunker.
There were many of these in Africa, many important world officials were put into stasis here before the first asteroid hit and many more after.
In 2282 scientists found a probable extinction asteroid heading for earth and they told the world to prepare for the worst.
By this time the power of the atom had truly been harnessed, it was discovered that stasis chambers were possible and that they worked without harming the person inside. The first test subject Jach Priboi was subjected to short stasis leaps back in the
220’s and then a large one for twenty years. It was found that by rapidly reducing the subject’s internal and external temperatures to absolute zero, they could almost be frozen in time. The body would not age because its atomic particles would be frozen but, reviving the subject was another mater. By super heating the cambers external surface with coolant magma, they could easily revive the one way time traveller with only few side affects, numbness. The biggest discovery was made when Jach was revived in 242. He went in at the age of 32 and left twenty years later at the age of 32.
“They told me not to worry, they said it would be just like all the other times, I stepped in to the camber as I did many times before, I took a look at the room, my friends, the equipment. I then took a breath in and raised my hand as to say good bye. But before I could do so they disappeared, the equipment had suddenly moved and I no longer saw the face of my young friends, but the faces of their children that had reached my knees before but were now taller that I was. All this happened as I waved my hand, no longer to say good bye, but, hello. ”
Jach had started to encourage the government to start a stasis program, which would revive the people automatically after 300 years. The world was put into a state of panic as more and more people wanted to survive the so-called extinction asteroid.
Days before first asteroid hit scientists discovered three more asteroids the first one was fifty years away, the second, another fifty but the third was about 1000 years away due to hit in around the year 3306.
The current year is 3305 August. Earth was about to be crippled again, without even knowing it.
Tiqo Uri is a member of the Leviathan foundation. A highly trained operative but now decommissioned since it took new power. 26 years old and 6ft 8” with dark, short brown hair.
Jakie was found trapped in a stasis unconscious and suffering from amnesia. He is unaware of his age but has been told to be in his twenties, 6ft 10”, has long grey hair and has a scar from his right shoulder going across is chest and down the left side of his face.
Apparently, Jakie was in the stasis chamber for around 1070 years according to his chamber and was revived in 3300 by a group of 6 scientists who worked for the Leviathan foundation. They kept him a secret until they were able to break up the foundation in the year 3302, they also gave him his name, Jakie Tesng. Tiqo, Jakie and a few others were put into training for the next 3 years by these scientists one of whom was the only ‘normal’ human of the six, his name Khatukh Raderré. The others were killed a year later by an unknown cause.
The wind was howling out side of the dank cave like a wolf howls at the moon that Jakie and Tiqo were staying in. The cave seemed small on the outside but it turned out to be the start of a Labyrinth of dark damp tunnels. They only had a little power left in their cp or Central Processor which basically was like small person, an interactive, speech interface. They had to get deep in the cave other wise the snow would get them.
They followed the first tunnel to their left, then to their right, climbed the right hand side of a nearby ledge and finally made camp in the third cave on their left.
A dark cloud hovered over the horizon, followed by icy winds it was imminent that a snowstorm would break out soon.
“Come on man, if you want to see it, I suppose you hurry up, that is if you want to reach the summit in time”
“Yeah well, Jakie, your not the carrying all the supplies eh? So cut me some slack okay?”
“Hey, the challenge was that we get to the top of the crater and take a image of the riff before Sundown”
“And who was the one who accepted it? Who, was the one who dragged me into this mess eh? Why do I let you talk me into these things?”
“Stop complaining Tiqo, we’ve done it plenty of times before,”
“Yeah but before I was warm and in a ship, not dangling 500ft of the top of the damn thing, I mean where did you get this damn old climbing gear? What is it, a thousand years old or something?”
“We’ll get through this,”
“Is it me or is it cold up here?”
“It can’t be cold up here, this is one of the most warmest places on earth. But, now that you mention it, it is quite cold. Strange.”
The riff or better known as the aroaborialas is the result of cosmic gas from the sun colliding with the earth’s atmosphere creating a nice show of lights. But in this area it can only be taken in high up areas.
Normally, this region is very hot because it is in the equatorial regions, even at this altitude.
Tiqo reluctantly continued to climb, but yet he could not figure out why it was so cold on the cliff face of the crater.
He stood up tall on the vertical cliff face he had been climbing for the last 3 hours. He looked down at 500ft drop then he looked up at the rest he had to climb.
“Jakie, how long till we get to the top?”
“About 300ft!”
“We might actually beat Challenge…(might, but probably won’t)”
An icy wind blew over the cliff face of the El Bángos crater in Africa. In 2238, an asteroid about the size of Manhattan Island fell in the North-eastern region of Africa, as did one in 2288, on the eastern side of Russia and in 2338, it crushed England and most of the European coast was washed away. During these three falls, America was showered by debris.
The second Millennium was nicknamed the Millennium of Hell as these ‘50 year’ asteroids wiped out almost all of the Earth’s population.
Only the rich, intelligent, skilled and most important survived as they were put into stasis by the worlds governments.
The world was in a Dark Iceage like state for 20 years after the third asteroid hit.
As Tiqo continued to climb something caught the corner of his eye, it was a cave. It was about 15ft away from him. He figured its’ opening was about 3m wide and 6m high and it went in quite far.
“Hey Jakie”
“Yeah Tiqo?”
“Last time we came, was there a cave here?”
“Of course not, this crater is only a thousand years old, and the only people that have been here are the Sankt Kingdom has been around 400 years, right? No could have settled here, it would be too hot, and too high”
“Well there’s a cave here but there wasn’t one before”
“We’ll check it out on the way down”
“Fine with me, how far till we be up?”
“Just under 100ft”
“Is it me or is it getting colder up here?”
During the Iceage many people died mutated viruses, many people around where the asteroids hit became mutated and acquired extra appendages.
The Sankt Kingdom appeared in the year 2900 when some weary travellers (Humans and Mutants alike) took refuge near the crater which was no longer radioactive and, was actually quite a paradise after the twenty years of darkness.
The radiation from the comet did not damage the earth in any way in fact it healed the planet and made it more ample with life.
The settlers slowly but surely, created a kingdom where everybody worked together and there were no problems. This utopian society grew into the vastly occupating Sankt Kingdom.
Of course all places, no matter how beautiful, have problems and the Sankt Kingdom was no exception.
“We made it!”
“We might not be quick enough”
“Wha?”
“Sundown in thirty seconds and the riff is fading”
Tiqo calmly ripped apart the bag in search for the holocamera…
“Jakie! we missed it”
“No we didn’t”
“What?”
“I took the liberty of removing the camera from your bag an put it in mine”
“So we got the picture? All right!”
“We’ll have to stay the night Tiqo, Get the gear out.”
“Can’t stay up here, the cp says a mach 5 snowstorm is headed our way”
“Mach 5 ? are you certain ? It shouldn’t even rain up here, let alone snow.”
“We should get down to that cave, I think it was about 100ft down”
“Hm…”
There were many organisations in the Sankt Kingdom, and almost all of then held some kind of grudge against the governors and the officials that ran the kingdom.
One of these was called Leviathan, an organisation bent on showing just how defective the system really was. Mainly run by vigilantes who had had enough of seeing innocent people whom they knew and cared about, be destroyed by the corrupted officials. They would attack areas of high importance to the kingdom, they would try to crumble it. And then one day the emperor was assassinated, nobody knew who to blame. The emperor was not born in that time, he was found in a stasis chamber near where the heart of the kingdom was originally built, on an old nuclear radiation bunker.
There were many of these in Africa, many important world officials were put into stasis here before the first asteroid hit and many more after.
In 2282 scientists found a probable extinction asteroid heading for earth and they told the world to prepare for the worst.
By this time the power of the atom had truly been harnessed, it was discovered that stasis chambers were possible and that they worked without harming the person inside. The first test subject Jach Priboi was subjected to short stasis leaps back in the
220’s and then a large one for twenty years. It was found that by rapidly reducing the subject’s internal and external temperatures to absolute zero, they could almost be frozen in time. The body would not age because its atomic particles would be frozen but, reviving the subject was another mater. By super heating the cambers external surface with coolant magma, they could easily revive the one way time traveller with only few side affects, numbness. The biggest discovery was made when Jach was revived in 242. He went in at the age of 32 and left twenty years later at the age of 32.
“They told me not to worry, they said it would be just like all the other times, I stepped in to the camber as I did many times before, I took a look at the room, my friends, the equipment. I then took a breath in and raised my hand as to say good bye. But before I could do so they disappeared, the equipment had suddenly moved and I no longer saw the face of my young friends, but the faces of their children that had reached my knees before but were now taller that I was. All this happened as I waved my hand, no longer to say good bye, but, hello. ”
Jach had started to encourage the government to start a stasis program, which would revive the people automatically after 300 years. The world was put into a state of panic as more and more people wanted to survive the so-called extinction asteroid.
Days before first asteroid hit scientists discovered three more asteroids the first one was fifty years away, the second, another fifty but the third was about 1000 years away due to hit in around the year 3306.
The current year is 3305 August. Earth was about to be crippled again, without even knowing it.
Tiqo Uri is a member of the Leviathan foundation. A highly trained operative but now decommissioned since it took new power. 26 years old and 6ft 8” with dark, short brown hair.
Jakie was found trapped in a stasis unconscious and suffering from amnesia. He is unaware of his age but has been told to be in his twenties, 6ft 10”, has long grey hair and has a scar from his right shoulder going across is chest and down the left side of his face.
Apparently, Jakie was in the stasis chamber for around 1070 years according to his chamber and was revived in 3300 by a group of 6 scientists who worked for the Leviathan foundation. They kept him a secret until they were able to break up the foundation in the year 3302, they also gave him his name, Jakie Tesng. Tiqo, Jakie and a few others were put into training for the next 3 years by these scientists one of whom was the only ‘normal’ human of the six, his name Khatukh Raderré. The others were killed a year later by an unknown cause.
The wind was howling out side of the dank cave like a wolf howls at the moon that Jakie and Tiqo were staying in. The cave seemed small on the outside but it turned out to be the start of a Labyrinth of dark damp tunnels. They only had a little power left in their cp or Central Processor which basically was like small person, an interactive, speech interface. They had to get deep in the cave other wise the snow would get them.
They followed the first tunnel to their left, then to their right, climbed the right hand side of a nearby ledge and finally made camp in the third cave on their left.