By Eli Abidin.
The future looks a little bleak.
What if most of those silly little conspiracy
theories that you hear about happened to be true?
After much pondering and subsequent cherry picking of paranoid theories, I landed on a collection of ridiculous notions which helped me form a shattered world, segregated and rigidly controlled.
Why do this?
- Fictional scenarios have always been the best medium through which to communicate truth.
- More importantly, though, I thought it would be fun.
- Fiction also happens to be a medium where you can lie with impunity, much like the news.
So which are the world-building conspiracy theories I chose?
- All airplanes have been grounded. Ostensibly because of global warming, but actually as a means of controlling the masses.
- The world has been segregated into three zones, all based on religious and political ideologies.
- Countries in the west have also been internally separated. There are choices which people must face: to live your life contributing to a technologically advanced society, or to live your life apart from an advanced society. A life where you are banished to a “no-tech” zone to live off the land like a savage.
What a world.
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Hello, My name is Newton. I don’t know what my surname is. It could be Loken, I suppose.
However, I choose to believe that a father should have more to do with your upbringing than simply putting all of the genetics in line and then calculating how he can profit from your existence…
Starting off heavy, really, aren’t I?
The point I’m getting to is that the man that raised me, nurtured my development… showed me right from wrong. He’s the man I wish to be named for…
The only person that showed me kindness and compassion during my formative years was a man name Nate Nguyen, the man pictured above, looking over the city of New Darwin.
But even that relationship was not what it seemed…
A bloke once told me, “When life seems boring, just spin a yarn…” And believe me, the bloke in question could tell stories until the cows came home.
Anyway, the yarn that I’m going to spin for you, my treasured audience, begins in the year 2087.
*C.O.P.I. –
The Main Players:
Nate Nguyen
Nate FiNiSHED SECONDARY SCHOOL AT THE TOP OF MY CLASS, AND WAS QUiCKLY RECRUiTED BY THE MULTiNATiONAL CONGLOMERATE, BDAL. NOT ONLY WOULD THEY PAY FOR MY DEGREE, BDAL ALSO HELD A GREAT OPPORTUNiTY… THE CHANCE TO WORK ALONGSiDE ROMAN LOKEN. THE MAN THAT FiRST MAPPED OUT THE HUMAN GENOME.
Roman Loken
THE LOKEN Family WAS ONE OF THE MOST influential in MELBOURNE’S History. ALL THAT Remained OF THAT GREAT Line in 2087, HOWEVER, WAS ROMAN AND His YOUNGER BROTHER MARCUS. Roman was a revered mind in the field of biological engineering.
Marcus was something else entirely…
Marcus Loken
Marcus Loken was A MAN ABOUT WHOM FEW FACTS WERE KNOWN. he WAS REPUTED TO HAVE Political AND CORPORATE Connections THAT MADE Him UNTOUCHABLE. AS ROMAN WOULD TELL THE STORY, MARCUS WAS THE GOLDEN BOY Right FROM Birth. HE WAS TREATED AS THE Heir APPARENT, AND ROMAN WAS ALL BUT FORGOTTEN.
Olli
(Not really sure of his surname.
He’s terribly mysterious.)
Yeah. This bloke. Nate and Roman first met this man of mystery in Bruges as they were investigating a DNA source. Then things got very complicated.
