The year is 2000. Technology has reached a level we never could have imagined five years ago. The economy is thriving. Crime rates are relatively low. The planet is dying at a remarkable rate. I guess, except for that last part, everything on Earth is pretty swell. At this particular point in time, the people of Earth were looking for a way out. This'll probably be a little confusing for someone on the outside looking in, so try to keep up. I really hate having to repeat myself.



Around this time, humanity was undergoing an engineered evolution. In the mid-90's, a group of scientists figured out a way to make a perfect soldier. It was a way to mix our natural, organic being with pure technology. All the benefits, none of the detriments. So we could live easier, with less than what we need as regular humans. Don't ask me about the details. I'm no scientist, so this shit makes about as much sense to me as it does to you. I just understand it better because I've lived it my entire life.



You see, in the late 90's, after that ground-breaking discovery, the world began to change. Most countries were accepting this treatment for every man, woman and child willing to take it. Of course there were those that resisted, those who refused and those who ran. People were "upgraded" as it was called, with their DNA made mechanical...or something. Like I said before, I'm not sure how it worked, but it did. By 2030, people born of enhanced humans were born with great physical capabilities, a lower dependence on oxygen and a higher tolerance for dangerous chemicals and climates. These people are known as Digimortal. This is what I am.



And that's not all. While this Project Digimortality was underway, there was also a mass space travel program and another, even older one: planet creation. Yeah, you heard right. Planet creation. It's meant to take a blank celestial body like a large moon or planet, anything really, and use it as something of a canvas to paint a planet on. It would create all the things we'd need to survive on a blank planet. Think of it as a Plan B. Well, Plan A didn't work like they wanted. So they had to get the hell out of dodge.



By 2040, the Earth was so far gone, sapped clean by technology, that the Digimortals felt they had to leave. The wanted better. A beautiful, perfect world. Thus, Operation Earth Exodus was finally put into action. They left the planet behind, condemning Earth as a "dead planet." And for the next ten years, they scoured the galaxy for some place new that they might settle into. Finally, they settled upon a relatively peaceful, advanced system known as Elementia.



The people of Elementia are highly advanced and, in my opinion, much more civilized. They had a government and policies that the Digimortal had to go through before they could join the system and use the one free planet they had. And finally, after three more years, they were permitted. So then began the construction process. This one actually took a long time to complete. 59 long years to be exact. Finally, in the year 2112, our home planet was established. Cormachina. Think it means something like "mechanical heart" in some ancient, dead language or something. A bio-mechanical planet. Living and breathing, but a machine as well. Made for us, by us. A new world. And this is where I live.



Now all that I just told you has come and gone. It's been well over 100 years since all that happened. The current year is 2255. And now, this whole bloody system's gone to shit. And y'know, I don't think there's a damn thing anybody can do about it. My friends say that we're the only ones that can make a difference. But we'd just be a raindrop in a bucket of water, I think. We might shake things up a bit, but everything will remain the same. But somewhere, in the back of my mind, I think that maybe...just maybe something could happen to tip the scales in our favor. And maybe Elementia can live on. All the races, in peace, not as separate planets. But as one system.



My name is Arcadia Morrison. And I just might be meant to save us all.