Post by mandomaniac on Apr 30, 2014 22:34:41 GMT -5
I originally set out to create fan fiction story for Templar Assault that I would (in theory) add chapters to week by week, however when I began the prologue it grew larger and lager and went farther and farther back into ST history until now it has become an entire history/back story spanning almost the entire Trese Brothers universe. I find now that I do not have the time to write the story in its original concept so I finished and polished (somewhat) my prologue and have decided to post it as a stand alone for all to enjoy. 
Edited on 5/3/2014 for shaluniverse cannon and added frame story
Staff Sergent Jago Lankom shuffled into the large class room. Dozens of fellow Templar followed as they made their way to seats for their first day of officer training. Their first class: "The Grand History of the Zendu and the Templar Order." The instructor entered from a door in the opposite wall and began imediately.
"Please take your seats we shall begin shortly. I know you all have learned of our history from youth, but as officers you shall need to know our culture and customs in greater detail. We shall begin with a large over-view of the Templar history starting with the birth of the Cyber Knights, over the next months we shall cover in greater detail the exploits of our ancestors in each era of our history. Please note that some of our records were fragmented and or lost entirely during the Narvidian War."
The year 2123 marked a great begining for Earth, 32 countries sign the "Interstellar Reasearch Collaboration Pact," in order to further prospects of deep space travel and colonization. The program however, and even the IRC Pact was kept Top Secret to prevent ever-increasing attacks from anti-science terrorists. The first project of the IRCP was the creation of a Hyper-Light Engine, the general concept of hyper-light travel had been around for years, the problem had always been generating the 250,000 Terrawatts of power required to fire the theoretical HLE.
Codenamed Project: WARP, a group of the world's top scientists were tasked with job of generating 250k Terra-Watts. After months of grueling debate the descision was made to attempt a controlled fusion reaction. 10 years later after being harassed by terrorists, spies, and a few countries that hadn't been invited to the party, the Reactor was finished. It a perfect sphere the size of football stadium and it contained the most revolutionary technological advances in in decades. The fist of which was the metal alloy that made up the outer plating and supports, called Narvidium Steel this super metal was 100 times stronger than any other metal-alloy produced to date. The second was the power conversion method, all previous reactors used the water/steam power method i.e. the reactor super heats water that spins a turbine that turn a magnet within a magnet and producees electricity. This one was different, the scientists had produced a gas that would at once hold pressure on the reaction to make it sustainable and convert the massive heat and kinetic energy into electricity. This marvel of technology was called nano-gas, trillions and trillions of microscopic servos were pumped into the Reactor at 200k psi while the narvidium plating held firm.
As the projected test date drew near, final preparations were made. Transformers were installed on "power points" around the Reactor to harness and conduct the produced electricity, and the hydrogen fuel pump was installed to provide more fuel as the reaction was maintained. Soon preparations were finished and the day of test arrived. The Reactor fired perfectly, producing power with a wallet filling hum. The first power recordings indicated 600k TWs, that figure doubled in minutes and after an hour they were producing over 2 million Terra-Watts of electricity per-minute. The reaction inside the core formed a tiny star complete with gravitational field, a field they had prepared for when fabricating narvidium plating. There was however an oddity they had not prepared for, radiation. Normally a fusion reaction shouldn't give off any radiation, however this wasn't produced by "Galileo's Dream," as the scientists had come to call the tiny star. The mass conversion of kinetic force and heat into electricity by the nano-gas caused massive radiation, while the narvidium plating stopped any radiation from leaking out, the mere mention of radiation was enough to cause concern. A particular scientist's report on the radiation reads as follows:
".... and as to the radiation problem, yes we know that radiation can be quite deadly, but there is no reason for concern here. The radiation is completely contained in the Reactor and even if it was to escape, if the Reactor was shut down for some reason it would be relativly safe, this particular radiation is quite heavy and has little energy it would only be truly dangerous in the case of direct contanct with the nano-gas especialy throuh inhalation, even then death would not be instant but could be prevented with proper and swift medical care. Further more the many advantages of the Reactor far outweigh the...."
The radiation however, placed an unplanned stress on the narvidium plating. This stress caused a single plate to crack, and in doing so the toxic nano spewed forth with unrelenting fury. The stream of nano caused the crack to widen which increased the nano-gas flowing out. Without the nano-gas acting as a control rod the reaction began to destabilize, and "Galileo's Dream" became a nightmare, the reaction went supernova.
It was a sunny day on the white-sand beaches of southen California, 10 days after the reactor was first fired, the first anyone knew something was wrong was the blinding flash of light from the south west. It was 2 hours before they heard the thunderous soundwave that accompanied it, but by then they had gotten reports from countries and cities throughout South America of a light flash and a sound wave. It was strange, however, as moments after reporting the sound wave every city that did so lost all comunications. Then the sound hit L.A., the thunderous roar shattered windows and even crumbled small buildings, but that was the least of their worries. Seconds after the sound wave came the shockwave, a massive wall of kinetic force with a forward edge that cut like a blade, ushering forth before it came a wall of water a half mile tall, on the wings of the shockwave came winds stronger than the greatest hurricane and carrying irradiated nano-gas that ate and devoured all before it. The once wonderful nano-bots had been destroyed in the blast, leaving only microscopic shards of nano-dust corrupting and polluting everything into toxic slag. Behind the shockwave rode an earthquake that the rippled the ground like water.
The Earth was ruined, 80% of the population lay dead, dying, or unaccounted for, the rest were shivering in holes most of them wounded and wondering: "What the @#%! just happened?" The few governments that weren't completely eradicated in the blast crumbled within days. The world's only remaining force of order were the few multi-national mega-corps and security agencies lucky enough to have survived the blast.
Most of the Earth was now a flat plain as the shockwave had level most of the Earth's Mountains down to sea level. Only the mightiest of mountains remained and on the other side of these were small oassises. Sheltered from the initial blast and nano-gas wave, these small patches of inhabitable ground were ground zero for the rebirth of civilization. Quickly obtained by the mega-corps, massive domes were erected over the oassises to protect them from the nano-gas that permiated the "badlands." Many of these oassises became corporate enclaves for the rich and powerful, while the rest were made into slum filled cities for the rest of humanity.
The unique radiation emitted by the nano-slag caused a fundimental shift in the composition of water turning the oceans into black seas of slag and waste. Underground streams and aquafers however were untouched and remained clean. Only a few of the domes were in reach of the sources and so many cities were forced into the difficult and lengthy process of refining the black slag that now covered the Earth.
As the world entered the 2140s corporate wars and conflicts threatened to ravage what little remained of humanity, however a new type of soldier was born. One that would revolutionize the way wars were fought and corporate goals achieved. In the year 2138 an unidentified scientist from New Boston invented the Quantum Verified Crypto-Chip or QVC, the chip, when paired with a specialized computer and implanted in a subject's brain could encrypt and decrpyt information based on the brain waves and thought patterns of the human brain. Information could be sent and stored on these special computers from any outside input, however it could only be displayed in the mind of someone with a QV chip, even then once paired only one person in the world could decrypt and access the information, it could never be hacked, the QV chip created the ultimate secure storage process. These people implanted with QV chips became known as "Cyber Knights," and they were given the corporate world's dirty work because even if they were capured and tortured their orders and origins could never be proven.
Cyber Knights were the elite of the elite, assasins, couriers, enforcers, and spies, they worked for the highest bidder and did anything they were payed to do. The implantation surgery was imediately outlawed and cyber knights were pariahs, the QV chip was their gift and curse. The extensive implants unique to cyber knights made them easily recognizable but neither that nor the laws against them stopped the formation or hiring of new cyber knights. The sudden surge in biotech and other legal combat based implants made it somewhat easier for cyber knights to blend in, but the repreive was short lived when security scanners learned to detect QV chips and pick a cyber knight out of croud at any moment. None of this stopped or even slowed the creation of cyber knights, the mega-corps cared not for the laws they created and simply moved operations underground. The laws were there for sole purpose of allowing corps to disown and execute cyber knights at will for any reason.
Corporate wars "calmed down," from open assualts and conflicts and became wars of subterfuge. Assasination, kidknapping, and espianoge became the methods of choice, and cyber knights the only tool to use. By the early to mid 2200s New Boston had become known as Cyber Knight City because it was the birth place of cyber knights and had become the central hub for the creation trainning and dispatching of cyber knights across the globe. The corporte conflicts here were fierce, and everyone, from the corps in the lap of luxury, to the security companies "policing the streets," to the street gangs running the slums, hired and used cyber knights for all of their dirty work.
In their quest for power and supremacy the mega-corps had created a monster, but by the time they realized that they had lost control, it was far too late. The corporations had created, trained, funded, supported, disowned, denied, hunted and executed cyber knights, but not before they made them filthy rich. By the year 2334 46% of the wealthiest people on the planet were cyber knights, this number had been a long time in growing but the corps thought that they could maintain control by ensuring that cyber knights remained outcasts and out of contact with one another. The illusion of control ended with a rude awakening.
In 2334 with combined billions of credits and the dirtiest secrets of the world's elite to protect them, a group of the best and most feared cyber knights formed Cyber Command Incorporated or CyberCom. At first opposed by the mega-corps, CyberCom reminded them of the secrets it held and soon gained the support of the corps, albeit begrudgingly. CyberCom's first targets were the prized security contracts for the city domes. This led to a long and bloody war with both the Knights Horizon and Brave Star, the security companies however, with the loss of cyber knights as soldiers fell and left their many and lucrative contracts to CyberCom. Now providing the police force for most of the world CyberCom began to found its own domes where cyber knights were the citizens and everyone else was the outcasts. The first of these "Cyber Havens" was the New Colombia Zone, built on the remnants of Washington D.C.
CyberCom used its extensive funds and corporate leverage to relocate any surgeon willing or able to perform the "cyber knight surgery" to New Columbia. In New Columbia the surgery was done above ground in the best hospitals with the best funding. CyberCom cornered the market and became the only way to hire cyber knights. They profited from both sides of every corporate war and were funded and equiped from all sides. Still CyberCom could not "over throw" the mega corps as the genetic markers required to become a cyber knight were rare and kept CyberCom's numbers elite but relatively small.
In 2547 after more than 400 years of research, the Quantum Bioligical Chip was perfected. Rumors of the successful implantation of a QBC existed as early as the late 2100s. Most of these rumors suround the dispapearance and later mysterious and unconfrimed return of the infamous and pycopathic cyber knight known as Gravestone. The undectable nature of the QBC however makes these rumors as unconfirmable and mysterious as the nature and purpose cyber knights themselves. The perfected QBC was much safer and much more compatible than its predecessor, and it soon completely eclipsed the QV chip and within 60 years there were no more QV chips, they were phased out as all new knights were fitted with QBCs.
The most interesting result of the QBC however came with the child of 2 QBC equiped cyber knights. The children of these cyber knights were born with QBCs, the hows and whys have never been fully understood, at least not that was made public knowledge. These "cyber children" were born almost fully trained, with the skills and abilities of their parents pre-written in their brains. The children were also born with many of their parents cybernetic implants bio-manipulated into their bodies. Narvidium infused bones, organic dataports, hand blades, and natural dermal plating, were just the most common features. With the advancement of intergrated biologic cpu systems knights no longer needed new computers, extra memory, speed, or job storage could be added with simple mental training. As natural born cyber knights advanced, CyberCom was no longer a corporation, it was a family, cyber knights were no longer assasins and mercinaries, they were peace keepers, protectors, heros, they were knights. CyberCom was reformed as the "Order Templar Defenders of Justice, Protecters of Law."
Cybernetic implantation did not go out of style however, in fact many of the Templar augmented their bodies well beyond even the cyber knights of old. This unfortunately caused a rift among the Templar Order. Those who chose implants were known as the Machinists while those who kept their bodies "pure" were called Humanists. As the rift between the sects grew eventually the machinists left the Templar Order. Since the neither the humanist nor the machinists were entirely human and since the machinists were no longer members of the Templar Order the term Zendu was coined as the name for race as a whole, with the Templar Order being a sect of the Zendu. Unfortunately linguistic records from that era have been lost and the original meaning and connotations of the word Zendu have been lost, although it is believed the word "Zendu" did originally hold great signifigance to the Templar and their brethren.
2735 marked the begining of Earth's rebirth. Sensors around the Earth, in the high atmoshere, and at all depths of the oceans saw an exponential reduction in radiation and its deadly corruption. As all radioactive material will slowly decay into stable non-radioactive elements so the nano-slag had finally begun to complete this process. By the end of the 2700s the world's life cycles had began re-establish themselves, the oceans were becoming clean, fish, plant life, and wild game were begining to regrow, albeit somewhat different than the pre-blast flora and fauna. The domes were taken down, the world was beutiful again, and people once more looked towards the stars.
It was discovered in the mid 2800s that Earth's oceans, once H2O had now finally stabilized as T2O. The substance was similar in apearance to water and could be generally substituted for water with the only long term side effects being greyish leathery skin and the tendency to glow in the dark. T2O was found to be an extremely efficient and easily stored fuel source, known commonly as "water-fuel," it became the fuel for all future endeavors in space travel.
By the late 2900s Earth had established a large interstellar "empire." Having discovered no signs of extra-terrestrial life, humanity led by the Templar navy collonized dozens of worlds. A great era of peace followed, known as the Golden Age of Earth, the Terran Empire enjoyed more than 250,000 years of relative peace and prosperity. Although the origins are not clear, it is known that aproximately the year 273,520, Earth and her collonies were divided by a massive and catastrophic civil war. Already drained by millenia of industry this war was especially devistating to the galactic core. Known as the "Templar Civil War" it was not the Templar that was divided, but rather the Zendu. The peace between the machinists and the humanist Templar had fallen through, and the greatest warriors in the galaxy ravaged the core in a long and bitter war. The war ended when a young Templar prophet named Shalun united the warring factions and lead humanity in an exodus from the ravaged territories of Earth.
The Great Exodus as it was known was carried out in great hive ships opperated by semi-intelligent machines called Narvidians because of the narvidium used in their plating and systems. A malfunction caused by an unknown source initiated a deadly Narvidian civil war. The aftermath of the Narvidian war left the remnants of humanity stranded in an unknown sector of the galaxy known as the Quadrant, while the Templar Navy scouts deep into unknown space fighting off aliens and the remnants of the hostile Narvidians. Of the seven "factions" of humanity that survived, six remained in the Quadrant to settle and rebuild, while the seventh set off into deep space to find the destination chosen by their elders, they have never been heard from since. Having lost much of their history, humanity rebuilds in the harsh and unforgiving Quadrant with only the fragments of the words of Shalun to guide them.
"That concludes today's lecture." The instructor announced, "Do we have any questions?"
A young Templar in the front left of the class room raised his hand. "What about the Narvidians? You only barely mentioned them."
"Ah." The instructor replied. "Honestly very little is known about he Narvidians except that the served humanity and operated the 'Hive Ships' during the Great Exodus. Exactly when they were built is not known, the first references we have to 'Narvidians' is during records of the Exodus, as such it is generally accepted that they were built during or at least for the specific purpose of the Great Exodus. As to their apearance it is known that they varied as greatly in apearance as they did in function, from engineers to pilots to guards to servants. The only thing consistant among all of them being their narvidium outer plating, hence the name 'Narvidian.'
"Now, if their are no other questions that will conclude today's class." The instructor concluded, "Good luck, and may Shalun guide your journeys."
Edited on 5/3/2014 for shaluniverse cannon and added frame story
Staff Sergent Jago Lankom shuffled into the large class room. Dozens of fellow Templar followed as they made their way to seats for their first day of officer training. Their first class: "The Grand History of the Zendu and the Templar Order." The instructor entered from a door in the opposite wall and began imediately.
"Please take your seats we shall begin shortly. I know you all have learned of our history from youth, but as officers you shall need to know our culture and customs in greater detail. We shall begin with a large over-view of the Templar history starting with the birth of the Cyber Knights, over the next months we shall cover in greater detail the exploits of our ancestors in each era of our history. Please note that some of our records were fragmented and or lost entirely during the Narvidian War."
The year 2123 marked a great begining for Earth, 32 countries sign the "Interstellar Reasearch Collaboration Pact," in order to further prospects of deep space travel and colonization. The program however, and even the IRC Pact was kept Top Secret to prevent ever-increasing attacks from anti-science terrorists. The first project of the IRCP was the creation of a Hyper-Light Engine, the general concept of hyper-light travel had been around for years, the problem had always been generating the 250,000 Terrawatts of power required to fire the theoretical HLE.
Codenamed Project: WARP, a group of the world's top scientists were tasked with job of generating 250k Terra-Watts. After months of grueling debate the descision was made to attempt a controlled fusion reaction. 10 years later after being harassed by terrorists, spies, and a few countries that hadn't been invited to the party, the Reactor was finished. It a perfect sphere the size of football stadium and it contained the most revolutionary technological advances in in decades. The fist of which was the metal alloy that made up the outer plating and supports, called Narvidium Steel this super metal was 100 times stronger than any other metal-alloy produced to date. The second was the power conversion method, all previous reactors used the water/steam power method i.e. the reactor super heats water that spins a turbine that turn a magnet within a magnet and producees electricity. This one was different, the scientists had produced a gas that would at once hold pressure on the reaction to make it sustainable and convert the massive heat and kinetic energy into electricity. This marvel of technology was called nano-gas, trillions and trillions of microscopic servos were pumped into the Reactor at 200k psi while the narvidium plating held firm.
As the projected test date drew near, final preparations were made. Transformers were installed on "power points" around the Reactor to harness and conduct the produced electricity, and the hydrogen fuel pump was installed to provide more fuel as the reaction was maintained. Soon preparations were finished and the day of test arrived. The Reactor fired perfectly, producing power with a wallet filling hum. The first power recordings indicated 600k TWs, that figure doubled in minutes and after an hour they were producing over 2 million Terra-Watts of electricity per-minute. The reaction inside the core formed a tiny star complete with gravitational field, a field they had prepared for when fabricating narvidium plating. There was however an oddity they had not prepared for, radiation. Normally a fusion reaction shouldn't give off any radiation, however this wasn't produced by "Galileo's Dream," as the scientists had come to call the tiny star. The mass conversion of kinetic force and heat into electricity by the nano-gas caused massive radiation, while the narvidium plating stopped any radiation from leaking out, the mere mention of radiation was enough to cause concern. A particular scientist's report on the radiation reads as follows:
".... and as to the radiation problem, yes we know that radiation can be quite deadly, but there is no reason for concern here. The radiation is completely contained in the Reactor and even if it was to escape, if the Reactor was shut down for some reason it would be relativly safe, this particular radiation is quite heavy and has little energy it would only be truly dangerous in the case of direct contanct with the nano-gas especialy throuh inhalation, even then death would not be instant but could be prevented with proper and swift medical care. Further more the many advantages of the Reactor far outweigh the...."
The radiation however, placed an unplanned stress on the narvidium plating. This stress caused a single plate to crack, and in doing so the toxic nano spewed forth with unrelenting fury. The stream of nano caused the crack to widen which increased the nano-gas flowing out. Without the nano-gas acting as a control rod the reaction began to destabilize, and "Galileo's Dream" became a nightmare, the reaction went supernova.
It was a sunny day on the white-sand beaches of southen California, 10 days after the reactor was first fired, the first anyone knew something was wrong was the blinding flash of light from the south west. It was 2 hours before they heard the thunderous soundwave that accompanied it, but by then they had gotten reports from countries and cities throughout South America of a light flash and a sound wave. It was strange, however, as moments after reporting the sound wave every city that did so lost all comunications. Then the sound hit L.A., the thunderous roar shattered windows and even crumbled small buildings, but that was the least of their worries. Seconds after the sound wave came the shockwave, a massive wall of kinetic force with a forward edge that cut like a blade, ushering forth before it came a wall of water a half mile tall, on the wings of the shockwave came winds stronger than the greatest hurricane and carrying irradiated nano-gas that ate and devoured all before it. The once wonderful nano-bots had been destroyed in the blast, leaving only microscopic shards of nano-dust corrupting and polluting everything into toxic slag. Behind the shockwave rode an earthquake that the rippled the ground like water.
The Earth was ruined, 80% of the population lay dead, dying, or unaccounted for, the rest were shivering in holes most of them wounded and wondering: "What the @#%! just happened?" The few governments that weren't completely eradicated in the blast crumbled within days. The world's only remaining force of order were the few multi-national mega-corps and security agencies lucky enough to have survived the blast.
Most of the Earth was now a flat plain as the shockwave had level most of the Earth's Mountains down to sea level. Only the mightiest of mountains remained and on the other side of these were small oassises. Sheltered from the initial blast and nano-gas wave, these small patches of inhabitable ground were ground zero for the rebirth of civilization. Quickly obtained by the mega-corps, massive domes were erected over the oassises to protect them from the nano-gas that permiated the "badlands." Many of these oassises became corporate enclaves for the rich and powerful, while the rest were made into slum filled cities for the rest of humanity.
The unique radiation emitted by the nano-slag caused a fundimental shift in the composition of water turning the oceans into black seas of slag and waste. Underground streams and aquafers however were untouched and remained clean. Only a few of the domes were in reach of the sources and so many cities were forced into the difficult and lengthy process of refining the black slag that now covered the Earth.
As the world entered the 2140s corporate wars and conflicts threatened to ravage what little remained of humanity, however a new type of soldier was born. One that would revolutionize the way wars were fought and corporate goals achieved. In the year 2138 an unidentified scientist from New Boston invented the Quantum Verified Crypto-Chip or QVC, the chip, when paired with a specialized computer and implanted in a subject's brain could encrypt and decrpyt information based on the brain waves and thought patterns of the human brain. Information could be sent and stored on these special computers from any outside input, however it could only be displayed in the mind of someone with a QV chip, even then once paired only one person in the world could decrypt and access the information, it could never be hacked, the QV chip created the ultimate secure storage process. These people implanted with QV chips became known as "Cyber Knights," and they were given the corporate world's dirty work because even if they were capured and tortured their orders and origins could never be proven.
Cyber Knights were the elite of the elite, assasins, couriers, enforcers, and spies, they worked for the highest bidder and did anything they were payed to do. The implantation surgery was imediately outlawed and cyber knights were pariahs, the QV chip was their gift and curse. The extensive implants unique to cyber knights made them easily recognizable but neither that nor the laws against them stopped the formation or hiring of new cyber knights. The sudden surge in biotech and other legal combat based implants made it somewhat easier for cyber knights to blend in, but the repreive was short lived when security scanners learned to detect QV chips and pick a cyber knight out of croud at any moment. None of this stopped or even slowed the creation of cyber knights, the mega-corps cared not for the laws they created and simply moved operations underground. The laws were there for sole purpose of allowing corps to disown and execute cyber knights at will for any reason.
Corporate wars "calmed down," from open assualts and conflicts and became wars of subterfuge. Assasination, kidknapping, and espianoge became the methods of choice, and cyber knights the only tool to use. By the early to mid 2200s New Boston had become known as Cyber Knight City because it was the birth place of cyber knights and had become the central hub for the creation trainning and dispatching of cyber knights across the globe. The corporte conflicts here were fierce, and everyone, from the corps in the lap of luxury, to the security companies "policing the streets," to the street gangs running the slums, hired and used cyber knights for all of their dirty work.
In their quest for power and supremacy the mega-corps had created a monster, but by the time they realized that they had lost control, it was far too late. The corporations had created, trained, funded, supported, disowned, denied, hunted and executed cyber knights, but not before they made them filthy rich. By the year 2334 46% of the wealthiest people on the planet were cyber knights, this number had been a long time in growing but the corps thought that they could maintain control by ensuring that cyber knights remained outcasts and out of contact with one another. The illusion of control ended with a rude awakening.
In 2334 with combined billions of credits and the dirtiest secrets of the world's elite to protect them, a group of the best and most feared cyber knights formed Cyber Command Incorporated or CyberCom. At first opposed by the mega-corps, CyberCom reminded them of the secrets it held and soon gained the support of the corps, albeit begrudgingly. CyberCom's first targets were the prized security contracts for the city domes. This led to a long and bloody war with both the Knights Horizon and Brave Star, the security companies however, with the loss of cyber knights as soldiers fell and left their many and lucrative contracts to CyberCom. Now providing the police force for most of the world CyberCom began to found its own domes where cyber knights were the citizens and everyone else was the outcasts. The first of these "Cyber Havens" was the New Colombia Zone, built on the remnants of Washington D.C.
CyberCom used its extensive funds and corporate leverage to relocate any surgeon willing or able to perform the "cyber knight surgery" to New Columbia. In New Columbia the surgery was done above ground in the best hospitals with the best funding. CyberCom cornered the market and became the only way to hire cyber knights. They profited from both sides of every corporate war and were funded and equiped from all sides. Still CyberCom could not "over throw" the mega corps as the genetic markers required to become a cyber knight were rare and kept CyberCom's numbers elite but relatively small.
In 2547 after more than 400 years of research, the Quantum Bioligical Chip was perfected. Rumors of the successful implantation of a QBC existed as early as the late 2100s. Most of these rumors suround the dispapearance and later mysterious and unconfrimed return of the infamous and pycopathic cyber knight known as Gravestone. The undectable nature of the QBC however makes these rumors as unconfirmable and mysterious as the nature and purpose cyber knights themselves. The perfected QBC was much safer and much more compatible than its predecessor, and it soon completely eclipsed the QV chip and within 60 years there were no more QV chips, they were phased out as all new knights were fitted with QBCs.
The most interesting result of the QBC however came with the child of 2 QBC equiped cyber knights. The children of these cyber knights were born with QBCs, the hows and whys have never been fully understood, at least not that was made public knowledge. These "cyber children" were born almost fully trained, with the skills and abilities of their parents pre-written in their brains. The children were also born with many of their parents cybernetic implants bio-manipulated into their bodies. Narvidium infused bones, organic dataports, hand blades, and natural dermal plating, were just the most common features. With the advancement of intergrated biologic cpu systems knights no longer needed new computers, extra memory, speed, or job storage could be added with simple mental training. As natural born cyber knights advanced, CyberCom was no longer a corporation, it was a family, cyber knights were no longer assasins and mercinaries, they were peace keepers, protectors, heros, they were knights. CyberCom was reformed as the "Order Templar Defenders of Justice, Protecters of Law."
Cybernetic implantation did not go out of style however, in fact many of the Templar augmented their bodies well beyond even the cyber knights of old. This unfortunately caused a rift among the Templar Order. Those who chose implants were known as the Machinists while those who kept their bodies "pure" were called Humanists. As the rift between the sects grew eventually the machinists left the Templar Order. Since the neither the humanist nor the machinists were entirely human and since the machinists were no longer members of the Templar Order the term Zendu was coined as the name for race as a whole, with the Templar Order being a sect of the Zendu. Unfortunately linguistic records from that era have been lost and the original meaning and connotations of the word Zendu have been lost, although it is believed the word "Zendu" did originally hold great signifigance to the Templar and their brethren.
2735 marked the begining of Earth's rebirth. Sensors around the Earth, in the high atmoshere, and at all depths of the oceans saw an exponential reduction in radiation and its deadly corruption. As all radioactive material will slowly decay into stable non-radioactive elements so the nano-slag had finally begun to complete this process. By the end of the 2700s the world's life cycles had began re-establish themselves, the oceans were becoming clean, fish, plant life, and wild game were begining to regrow, albeit somewhat different than the pre-blast flora and fauna. The domes were taken down, the world was beutiful again, and people once more looked towards the stars.
It was discovered in the mid 2800s that Earth's oceans, once H2O had now finally stabilized as T2O. The substance was similar in apearance to water and could be generally substituted for water with the only long term side effects being greyish leathery skin and the tendency to glow in the dark. T2O was found to be an extremely efficient and easily stored fuel source, known commonly as "water-fuel," it became the fuel for all future endeavors in space travel.
By the late 2900s Earth had established a large interstellar "empire." Having discovered no signs of extra-terrestrial life, humanity led by the Templar navy collonized dozens of worlds. A great era of peace followed, known as the Golden Age of Earth, the Terran Empire enjoyed more than 250,000 years of relative peace and prosperity. Although the origins are not clear, it is known that aproximately the year 273,520, Earth and her collonies were divided by a massive and catastrophic civil war. Already drained by millenia of industry this war was especially devistating to the galactic core. Known as the "Templar Civil War" it was not the Templar that was divided, but rather the Zendu. The peace between the machinists and the humanist Templar had fallen through, and the greatest warriors in the galaxy ravaged the core in a long and bitter war. The war ended when a young Templar prophet named Shalun united the warring factions and lead humanity in an exodus from the ravaged territories of Earth.
The Great Exodus as it was known was carried out in great hive ships opperated by semi-intelligent machines called Narvidians because of the narvidium used in their plating and systems. A malfunction caused by an unknown source initiated a deadly Narvidian civil war. The aftermath of the Narvidian war left the remnants of humanity stranded in an unknown sector of the galaxy known as the Quadrant, while the Templar Navy scouts deep into unknown space fighting off aliens and the remnants of the hostile Narvidians. Of the seven "factions" of humanity that survived, six remained in the Quadrant to settle and rebuild, while the seventh set off into deep space to find the destination chosen by their elders, they have never been heard from since. Having lost much of their history, humanity rebuilds in the harsh and unforgiving Quadrant with only the fragments of the words of Shalun to guide them.
"That concludes today's lecture." The instructor announced, "Do we have any questions?"
A young Templar in the front left of the class room raised his hand. "What about the Narvidians? You only barely mentioned them."
"Ah." The instructor replied. "Honestly very little is known about he Narvidians except that the served humanity and operated the 'Hive Ships' during the Great Exodus. Exactly when they were built is not known, the first references we have to 'Narvidians' is during records of the Exodus, as such it is generally accepted that they were built during or at least for the specific purpose of the Great Exodus. As to their apearance it is known that they varied as greatly in apearance as they did in function, from engineers to pilots to guards to servants. The only thing consistant among all of them being their narvidium outer plating, hence the name 'Narvidian.'
"Now, if their are no other questions that will conclude today's class." The instructor concluded, "Good luck, and may Shalun guide your journeys."
... and the cyber knights could become the Zendu... cks with the original QV chips are the machinists while the QBC equiped knights are the humanists... i think i read thread u mentioned... anyway i intended this to be the prologue a much longer TA/ST story that i may come back to later... it had also occured to me that QBC and its features would also make a nice explanation for how the Templar control their armor and weapons so smoothly... anyways thanks for likes and replies