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Martian Midnight

Theme: Egyptian Cyberpunk Ambiance | Nebulous Illumine - The Enigma TNG

It's hard to believe it all started here.

In Egypt, it made sense. At least, it did back when Earth still had atmosphere, and until the great oil disaster in the late 21st century. Most of Egypt was habitable then, and could even be farmed and formed into a garden oasis. After the disaster, along with the wars that ensued by declining, once great nations who sought what power they could grab, were eventually bought up by the global corporations that decided it was time to take out the middle man and claim themselves the rightful world powers - not by any claim to divine or sovereign rule, but by the might of consumer influence and what power money could buy. It was easy to gain control in this manner, considering how the governments spent well beyond the means of their national treasuries and, in turn, spread the addiction to debt money onto their people, leading to even greater debt that became its own form of slavery. The global corporations, albeit, being a major part of the problem, offered people solutions, and a way out of debt. Contracts were signed among the people with these corporations, which ultimately undid the ties of national social contracts. This led to open borders, of sorts, as long as you had the money, influence, and clearance identification that allowed one to pass from one sector of the world to another. Those without such passports had to remain where they were and wait for the opportunity to be granted such an ID. However, such identification was purposefully made difficult to acquire. As the global society progressed, security tightened, making it near impossible to attain passports due to various concerns, including criminal and political activities that undermined the agenda of the global society, along with claimed safety and bio hazard issues that grew from industrial pollution and sketchy, potentially illegal scientific experiments that led to human mutations that had to be contained, or potentially terminated depending on perceived danger of the hybrids created by the mutations.

By the middle of the 3rd millennium of the common era, during two global wars between the corporate superpowers, the hybrids had worked underground on their contingency plan for leaving the earth. Having been considered little more than experiments and pets by the humans that created them, they eventually formed their own society and global network in the open cities, defending their autonomy from the global corporations. They allied with many diverse sorts of humans that were displaced by the global society, and thus disassociated themselves from the mainstream society. While the globalists kept fighting over what land was left that had not been scourged by the wars and turned toxic by industries and unethical experimentation by human scientists - during this time the hybrids and human allies worked on creating spacecrafts and planned their celestial escape and vision to start over anew on Mars.

While the red planet had been considered dead and hostile to humanoid life, there were rumors that it could be possible to revive the planet and make it habitable. For about 500 years, on until the turn of the 4th millennium of the common era, many vessels were sent up into space with mixed results. Some blew up, either by missiles launched by the global society, or by internal failures in the crafts. Others made it out into space, but eventually the communication was lost, and the ship and its crew were never to be seen or heard from again. Things continued in this manner until one day a text message found its way back from Mars, which stated, "We did it!"

Towards 3121 C.E., the hybrids and their human allies were finally able to escape to the stars, leaving behind the dying planet Earth. Many were eager to make a new beginning on Mars. Some stayed behind, still holding out hope for change on Earth. They kept communication with the soon to be Martians, believing that what could be learned about terraforming the red planet might help to revitalize Earth back to its beautiful blue skies once more.

Ioh was on one of the first ships that sought to start colonies on Mars. However, his purpose was different from those of the hybrids. Only a select few knew what his mission of sorts was, and he aimed to keep it that way until he was certain that ancient artifacts of his Martian ancestors from time immemorial were secured and likely to not be used and abused by the new breed of Martians. A new society on his ancestral planet was exciting, but it also posed problems that neither he, nor the new breed could possibly imagine. Even so, as the last of his kind still alive, as far as he knew, he wasn't about to let such ancient technology find its way into the wrong hands, and potentially lead to the first known galactic war of the common era. Wars in the heavens were of Biblical and mythical stories of ancient times long before the common era. Ioh aimed to keep them so for as long as he breathed.

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This pic was taken in Haven Your World at my home sim Ioh Haven. The sim is still under construction, but you can check out the (very slow) development here:

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Taken on: September 23, 2016

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