How the Mechamorphs were
created and who (or what) originally created the Great Generator is a mystery
that will probably never be solved. For millennia, the planet Mecha Terra was
governed by a political body known as Cynet, which was made up of
representatives of the various guilds on the planet. Each guild specialized in a
chosen area of mechamorph society (construction, research, commerce, etc.), and
it was through Cynet that they governed the planet.
The Great Generator
provided the mechamorphs with an abundance of nexus energy, which is the energy
that feeds the mechamorphs and keeps them operational. Tens of thousands of
years ago, the mechamorphs started to explore and colonize their own star
system, an endeavour that required vast amounts of nexus energy -- amounts that
only the Great Generator could supply.
Unfortunately, like all
machines, the Great Generator eventually broke down. Also unfortunate was the
mechamorphs had no idea how to fix it. Although each mechamorph's internal nexus
generator generated enough nexus energy for each mechamorph to survive, without
the Great Generator, the mechamorphs' quality of life suddenly plummeted. Guilds
and individuals with surplus nexus energy began hoarding it, and conflicts broke
out as those without tried to attain nexus energy from those who had it. The
society the mechamorphs had built began to fall apart. Guilds began threatening
to secede from Cynet, and Mecha Terra seemed on the verge of civil war.
Finally, Obelisk, the
leader of a newly-formed guild called the Tyrants, stepped forward with a
solution. According to Obelisk, the Tyrants had a large supply of nexus energy
that they were prepared to share with the other guilds. In exchange for sharing
their nexus energy, the Tyrants asked that they be allowed to establish control
over their resources, to have unrestricted access to Mecha Terra's starports and
its Grand Thoroughway (a massive road that connected the entire planet), and the
authority to enforce necessary restrictions on the mechamorphs to ensure peace
and order. Cynet agreed, and the Tyrants soon became the rulers of Mecha Terra.
The Tyrants began
rationing out nexus energy and quelling the riots and conflicts that were taking
place on Mecha Terra and its outposts. Obelisk was crowned High Tyrant, and he
soon commissioned a fleet of ships that would be used to search space for new
sources of nexus energy. To further the exploration, the Tyrants founded the
Explorers and send large quantities of them out into space to search for nexus
energy. However, space was filled with dangers, including one anomaly known as
the "white hole," which was notorious for creating unpredictable
gravimetric disturbances and radiation eddies that could damage a mechamorphs'
internal circuits.
For years, the Tyrants
sent Explorers off into space to search for nexus energy. Often enough,
Explorers went missing, and their disappearances were blamed on dangerous
phenomena in space. However, during a routine cataloguing of parts by Pride, the
head of the Animechs guild (which was responsible for animating and rebuilding
mechamorphs that had undergone shutdown or been destroyed), discovered parts
that he recognized as belonging to Explorers that had gone missing in space.
Investigating this, he realized that a lot of parts being recycled belonged to
missing Explorers.
Pride told the Animechs
about his discovery, and the guild confronted Obelisk about it. They accused
Obelisk of draining other mechamorphs of their nexus energy to gain more power.
Obelisk didn't deny it, and he offered the Animechs a choice -- willingly submit
to nexus energy draining and be shut down or leave Mecha Terra forever. The
Animechs agreed to leave the planet, but no sooner had they departed Mecha
Terra's solar system that Obelisk and several ships (including his new flagship)
appeared and attacked the small fleet. Equipped with his nexus energy draining
technology, Obelisk had intended to stop the Animechs and drain their energy
where nobody on Mecha Terra could see.
As the Animech fleet was
getting picked off, Pride ordered the survivors closer to the white hole in the
hopes that the Tyrant ships would be affected by the gravimetric disturbances
and radiation eddies long enough for the Animechs to escape. When that didn't
work, Pride and the Animechs entered the white hole to escape. Obelisk, not
wanting the Animechs to escape, ordered his ships to follow. The ships,
including the flagship, entered the white hole and were gone.
With Obelisk and his nexus
energy-draining technology gone, the Tyrants became more oppressive over the
next tens of thousands of years. The Tyrants conquered neighbouring star systems
and began siphoning off planets' energies to be condensed into nexus energy.
Greater and greater emphasis was placed on the Tyrant war machine, and when the
other guilds started to stand up to the Tyrants, the Tyrants struck at them with
force. Guilds were abolished from Mecha Terra soon after.
Finally, a mechamorph
named Aegis held a secret gathering of eight former guild leaders in order to
find the resources to leave Mecha Terra. As they gathered others that wished to
escape from the Tyrants' rule, many became worried that even if they escaped,
the Tyrants would track them down and destroy them. However, Aegis and another
mechamorph, a scientist named Sky-Eye, believed that the answer to their freedom
was in the white hole. Sky-Eye hypothesized that the white hole was a tear in
space, and that if a ship was piloted directly through the centre of the
anomaly, it would avoid the gravimetric disturbances and radiation eddies, and
it would the exit the white hole in another region of space -- perhaps a region
untouched by the Tyrants.
Dubbing themselves the
Exiles, they gathered mechamorphs and the resources needed to put together a
small fleet of nine ships.
And this is where our story begins...
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