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EXSILIUM
THE INITIATIVE
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INITIATIVE OPERATIONS Run by the descendants of the original Royals who lead the First Resistance, the Initiative operates underground and in secret within the confines of the island of Exsilium, with the Initiative Hold standing as their main base. The citizens within Exsilium are unaware of their progress, their intentions, or their existence. Only the Initiative and the Transports are made aware of their intentions and their plans. Their supplies and their technology have been stolen and adapted from the United Earth; schematics were taken and adapted to meet their needs, and their technology was built by them in the lower, underground levels of the Initiative Hold with their sequestered supplies. The Initiative is pulling unique individuals into Exsilium from other worlds using a technology that they have modified from information obtained from the United Earth, in an effort to unify those people and train them to travel through time—fighting in wars, making minor or major changes to historical events, or even holding diplomatic conversations with former world leaders to attempt to sway them to a necessary side. Their goal is to prepare themselves and their Transports for a secondary uprising against the United Earth, who are too powerful at the present time to be taken down with a standard revolution. In order to weaken the United Earth from the "inside", the Initiative has calculated the exact series of historical events that would need to be changed in an effort to change the direction of their own future and keep the United Earth from becoming as powerful as it is now. As of this post, the Initiative has explained to each and every Transport upon their arrival that their reason for bringing them into their own world is because of the United Earth's encroaching power—the United Earth is draining their own stockpiled resources fast, and they are using the technology that the Initiative had modified (the tech that allows them to retrieve Transports from other worlds) to send the Masked into Transports' home worlds in search of new resources. Because of this, the Initiative has sought out the people from those worlds in an attempt to gain their assistance in not only helping this world, but stopping the United Earth from entering their own world. The Initiative has no reason to treat their Transports badly, and they do everything in their power to make them comfortable and safe while they are in Exsilium. Food, water, money, and housing are provided by the Initiative while they attempt to share all of their knowledge with each Transport that arrives. The Initiative genuinely cares for the Transports, though they understand that it is difficult to earn their trust—and they do so slowly and to the utmost of their capabilities. They are as transparent as they can be with their information, though there is not a lot that can be shared. Unfortunately, the situation between the Initiative and the United Earth is a tricky one—neither side is inherently good, but each believes themselves to be; it is the Initiative that is more human, and Exsilium that is more free. There is a small set of cells in the lower levels of the Initiative Hold that is used for Transports only temporarily when they become unruly, or otherwise are difficult to handle. It can be treated as a prison of sorts, but it is in better shape than a standard prison—more like a form of organized solitary confinement where you're to sit and think about what you've done. The Initiative operates with the intention of garnering their Transports' trust, and it is their expected and ongoing personal battle. |
TRAINING Optional training is provided to Transports by members of the Initiative on a daily basis, from 6:00am until 9:00pm all seven days of the week. Training facilities are available within the Hold, where Transports can utilize any of the weapons available in the armory, or even just focus their own skills and hone them with a trained Initiative leader. There are mandatory training hours twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, where Transports are required to spend an hour's time practicing with their sentient weapon and becoming more accustomed to its relationship with them. All other training schedules are optional. |
HOUSING BUILDING There is a massive apartment building provided for the Transports by the Initiative, though the Transports are not required to live there and may choose to live elsewhere if they find a suitable place. It is located one city block from the Initiative Hold, making it easy for Transports to walk the distance between the two. The building itself is whitewashed and somewhat grey with wear, with utilitarian architecture reminiscent of Soviet architecture on the outside; blocked and symmetrical and without additional flair. Each apartment is three bedrooms and roughly 3000 square feet. Each Transport is placed with two others and each one gets their own bedroom, though they share a living room, kitchen, and bathroom in their apartments. The apartment interior is made up of bright whites and sleek blacks—rounded and made more in a style reflecting that of the United Earth's, or of the futuristic world in which they inhabit. The inside furnishings of the apartments in Exsilium are arguably the nicest and cleanest thing to be seen in the city, as the Initiative intended to entice and comfort their Transports with the most comfortable living environment possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
THE UNITED EARTH
THE HISTORY
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THE FIRST RESISTANCE & DISPLACEMENT TO EXSILIUM The first resistance occurred in 3012, after the United Earth had risen to power as the final standing world power—the only remaining world governance. Lead by the descendants of several inter-married Royal Families and a large movement of citizens of the United Earth, the people revolted against the increasingly distrustful government and failed. Beaten back by their severely militarized police force and newly established technology, the attempt at revolt only solidified the government's distrust and led the United Earth to the final action of exiling all their dissenters to the island of Exsilium. Roughly 1 million people revolted against the United Earth and were sent to live in exile on the prison island of Exsilium. Over time, their numbers dwindled down to the mere 500,000 that we see today—from starvation, lack of housing, and no governmental influence, the population reigned itself in from its larger numbers in anarchic chaos until only few survived. Those few would eventually form the community that exists now in Exsilium with the help of the Initiative, whose efforts to create a sense of togetherness and a functioning infrastructure are what keeps Exsilium on its legs today. |
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS The United Earth stranded the residents of Exsilium with no technology to speak of, so everything available to them has either been recreated from their own knowledge, or smuggled in from the United Earth. The time travel technology in particular was created using stolen schematics, which the scientists of Exsilium were able to perfect where the United Earth had thusfar failed. The time travel aspect of their technology is much more refined than the aspect of the technology which is used to draw the transports in from other worlds. When focusing on other worlds, they are not able to specify where they want it to draw people from or what point in time, so the Transports are effectively selected at random. The Initiative scientists have been trying to perfect the technology so they have more control over it, but have not had much success thusfar. They are also working to bring important information and documentation on Transports into Exsilium with them when they arrive, such as medical records, education history, and criminal records, but this aspect of the technology is also spotty and unreliable. Because the technology available in Exsilium is based on what has been able to be rebuilt and what can be stolen from the United Earth, the society will seem incredibly advanced in some areas, while seeming surprisingly archaic in others. The Initiative has put an emphasis on technology that will help both in the survival of the people of Exsilium and in their efforts to overthrow the United Earth. Subsequently, they have ended up with very sophisticated technology in areas such as time travel and medicine, but the majority of the island lacks devices common to people from the 21st century, such as dishwashers and toaster ovens. The United Earth is extremely advanced, though they have not perfected the ability to time travel or to reach into other dimensions like the Initiative has. They have notably ignored the possibilities of space travel, and only care about the environment when it happens to benefit them in some way. The major cities are heavily reliant upon robots to perform menial labor, though they generally avoid giving these robots any form of artificial intelligence beyond what is absolutely needed to perform their assigned tasks. |