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| Topic Started: Feb 3 2008, 11:59 AM (167 Views) | |
| New Harumf | Feb 3 2008, 11:59 AM Post #1 |
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Political Map of Prototopia: Posted Image Prototopia was colonized so far ago that it's history is obscured. The first settlements disappeared without a trace, and domed communities replaced all open air communities. No one is allowed to live in the oipen air, and the citizens of Prototopia are taught from birth that to live outside is suicide. The domed cities are huge and the climates are perfect. All agricultural activities occur within the domes. Domed cities are interconnected by high-speed magnetic transport lines, making travel between communities very simple and fast. A series of forts are maintained in the North and East, though the original reason for their construction is unknown to everyone except the military. Plus, one major space port in maintained near the capital which controls all military, space and civilian extra-terrestrial travel. The people of Prototopia are carefree, funloving and have complete freedom to act, think and do as they like. The state cares for them from cradle to grave and every possible desire is cared for. Contentment is the rule. All labor is performed by robotronics so all citizens enjoy total leasure. Those in the Military and the government live seperately from the general population and are completely isolated. No citizen knows who the government is, or who are in the military, or if they are one in the same. Capital City is: Doma Population: Political system: Unknown, and totally secretive Religion: None Ethnicity: 100% mixed race |
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| New Harumf | Feb 10 2008, 02:50 PM Post #2 |
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The Mythical History as known by the Prototopians: In the beginning, their was darkness. Darkness remained for one thousand years while a small spot, a single point began to develop light. After one thousand years, the light began to grow. It grew until it bacame Bak, the first Prototopian, and Bak lived for one thousand years surrounded by darkness, until a second light began to grow from a single point. This second light became Dun, the first female. Dun and Bak found each other in the darkness, and together they made enough light to allow them to see. They saw that they lived in the underworld, with darkness around every corner, and just their small circle with light to give them comfort. One night, Bak and Dun where sleeping, when a great earthquake shook their underground world, and a crack developed in the cavern above them letting in the light of the stars, and everywhere the light touched them, a new Prototopian emerged, from Bak came the race of men, and from Dun came the race of women, and when they had all emerged, they feasted on the now dead corpses of Bak and Dun. Then, the Prototopians became builders, and began to build their cities on the surface, under the starlight, and Prototopia became what it is today. |
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| New Harumf | Feb 11 2008, 10:28 AM Post #3 |
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Bloodthirsty Unicorn
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Actual history of Prototopia The Prototopians were among the last colonists to leave Old Earth. By the time their migration came about the planet had reached the state of global warming everyone had predicted. CO2 levels in the atmosphere had reached over 20% and O2 levels had dropped to below 14%. The only reason the Prototopians survived is because of a mutation in their blood: the hemoglobin developed an additional four heme subunits, essencially doubling the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. Over time, the oceans became acidic through a process of desolved carbolic acid, to such an extent that the White Cliffs of Dover were totally disolved, as was most marine life. The colonization fleet took off when life on earth was completely impossible. Unfortunately, when finally reaching their colonial destination in what was to become Prototopia, they discovered an atmosphere with 20% oxygen and only 2% CO2. This massive increase in Oxygen allowed their muscles and brains to become over-oxydized and they developed incredible speed, fighting abillity and agressiveness. It became so bad that they would attack and kill each other on sight. Another phenomina developed as well. When a Prototopian was killed, it would be devoured by the living, because the oxygen-rich blood was irrestible. Parents, particularly male, would also attack and devour their children. In order for their species to survive some Prototopians moved underground in the "Caves". Here, the oxygen/CO2 ratios were more like what they were accustomed to on Old Earth, and the civilization began to grow in an underground race of people. As long as the Oxygen content of their breathing air was below 16% the Prototopians were a peaceful people. Their civilization grew rapidly, but another mutation developed. Because of the behavior of the Prototopians in Oxygen-rich environments, children began being born with eyes on the side of their head. This was environmentally advantagious, as a shift from the predator front-facing eyes to the side-facing eyes of prey gave children an advantage when males went on the hunt - they could see danger approaching, and hide. As a Prototopian child went through puberty the eyes slowly drifted back toward a forward facing position, but not completely. Eventually, the species began to build their domed cities on the surface and migrate toward the sea, yet a large minority of the population chose to continue to live in the caves. This group eventually mutated further than the dome-city dwelling species, to the point where their hemoglobin, already mutated to 8 heme subunits, mutated again to 16 heme subunits, giving them twice again the oxygen-carrying capacity of the dome-dwelling race, and again increasing their speed to blinding, and strength to astronomical, when in a 20% oxygen atmosphere. It also made them twice as more likely to kill and devour their own species when out of the caves, who's CO2 content eventually reached a state where the dome-dwelling Prototopians could no longer survive. Eventually, small raiding parties of the cave-dwellers would venture out and, with blinding speed, grab and feed off of any unsuspecting Prototopians on the surface out of the domes, even if in their environmental suites. Also, the continued genetic mutation of the underground dwellers led to a completely different species that could no longer mate with the Dome dwellers. All "normal" Prototopians moved away from the cave region, and a series of forts were built along the cave fronteer to prevent super-Prototopians from attacking south. By this time in history, raids have discontinued from the caves, however Prototopians who wander into the cave region do disappear. It is in the cave region where all of the rich mineral deposits of Prototopia have been discovered. |
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