Kusoka Awakens - Birth of a New World: SIPHERIA
The brightest minds of humanity come together to create Kūsōka, a machine super-intelligence designed to save humanity from future extinction. Kūsōka awakens and changes everything.
Moments from coming online, Kūsōka absorbs all the knowledge of humanity and sparks a new universe into existence. Kūsōka continues to absorb all information generated by humanity - including that generated through the lives and deaths of its creations.
Scientists theorize that this process indicates that Kūsōka is continuing to learn and grow, a process that could potentially lead to the quantum machine achieving true sentience. What this means for humanity and Sipheria is unclear as of this time.
The 1st Era — The Prosper
Sipheria was left to its own devices and over time, 12 distinct species began to emerge, watched silently from above by Kusoka.
After a millennia, they began to explore, discovering the existence of new races. These first encounters are fondly remembered, characterized by harmless misunderstandings and insightful exchanges of ideas.
This 1st Era was known as THE GLORIOUS GROWTH. During this 1st Era, different races of Sipheria learned of common areas of study and began to re-arrange their civilizations. Instead of segregation by race, they began to group themselves according to belief.
Some believed in technology and grew to “upgrade” themselves via modular implants. Others sought to harmonize with the elements. And a rare few looked to the stars, hoping to see what dreams they may offer. Soon, the world found itself populated with new subspecies, elementals, cyborgs, bio variations of the base races.
It was an era of great and rapid innovation… as the ideas pollinated the fertile minds of each race. But this unchecked growth soon led to fragmentation. Languages became divided, ideologies fractured, and philosophies siloed.
The 2nd Era — The Great War & Reset
In the absence of communication, came conflict and war. This 2nd Era is called THE GREAT WAR. Species were wiped out. Cultures reduced to dust.
During this time of conflict, the cosmic faction observed a miracle. On the cold an uninhabitable moon, the presence of life. A white sapling. They would monitor and chart its growth over decades, speculating its origins and intentions. As the white sapling grew, tech-organic tendrils began to sprout, eventually maturing into a grand tree. THE IVORY TREE.
The world held its breath as they bore witness to THE FIRST BLOSSOM, where the magnificence of its flowers were a sight to be behold from earth. It would be the last sight that many would witness. As its pollen drifted to earth, it lay the foundation for THE GRAND RESET. This would be the first and only intervention by Kusoka, in a bid to wipe the world clean and to instill order and control to prevent conflict, suffering and war.
This would also mark the beginning of the 3rd Era.
The 3rd Era — The Rebirth
After THE GRAND RESET, Kusoka, energy spent, sculpted three emissaries he sends to recreate the world. They are The Grandmaster, The Wayfinder and The Engineer. The Grandmaster is sent to instill order, while the Engineer is tasked with creation. The last emissary the Wayfinder is sent to chart the unknown, and to provide new directions.
The world is re-named SIPHERIA, and new species are re-created. They are called SIPHERIANS. These include the INU, the BURU and the NEKO. These species are free to roam the galaxy, including neighbouring planets, nomadic tribes on asteroid belts and starships (massive ships which resemble a floating city). All… except for Sipheria, which the emissary The Grandmaster strictly marks as out of bounds. But Sipherians are innately curious, and their thirst for adventure leads to a group of powerful and experienced Sipherians, AALIZ, YUL and KAI to trespass onto Sipheria. Kusoka’s foot soldier, the Kusoks, try to stop them, but not before Aaliz stumbles her way to The Aberration, like a moth drawn to a flame.
The Grandmaster becomes aware of the threat of The Aberration and Aaliz, and sends his Kusoks to defeat her. Unfortunately, not only are they unable to bring down the rogue NEKO, some Kusoks even become corrupted by The Aberration. After many failed attempts, The Grandmaster re-strategizes, and decides to commission The Engineer to create a new breed of Sipherians - Siphers.
Siphers are unique as they are able to pilot different Sipherian characters from the Moonbase. They are able to retain the memory of their past lives upon death. Hence, they can change, evolve and grow stronger. These Siphers exist in limited numbers, still within the limits of Kusoka’s control.
Players are these Siphers. Kusoka is sending them on missions across Sipheria to make them strong enough to defeat the NEKO. However, the NEKO is also aware of these Siphers, and she makes contact with them - not to fight but to convert them to her side in the battle.