It is the year 2115, where the world is struggling to recover from recent disastrous events. The first of these was the devasting Third World War (2069-2077). This was fought between the USA and China, the world's two superpowers. This caused death, destruction, and social, economic and political crises.
After the War came the 'Age of Chaos' (2078-2085). Most countries faced rebellion, or even full scale civil war, caused by groups who wanted to take advantage of the critical situation the countries were in. After this, the political map of the world was highly different than before. New leaders were in charge in most countries, New countries were formed and other countries had merged. However, after this, the atmosphere started to settle, and no more major political events took place. Unfortunately, a disaster, even worse than World War III or the Age of Chaos was about to take place.
Over the course of the war and the decades before it, due to the production of nuclear weapons and the use of nuclear energy, along with a multiplied factory production in most countries of the world, pollution on earth, especially in the war zones and areas where arms were manufactured on a large scale, had increased to critical proportions. New diseases were now affecting the human race, more lethal than had been experienced before.Once fertile land was rendered sterile, but worse things were to come.
In 2087, the worst consequence of the pollution was felt across the globe. Pregnant mothers began to be affected. While the mothers were largely unaffected, large numbers of children across the world were born hideously deformed. In order to save their lives, the children were forced to undergo a dangerous operation at a very early ages. Not all survived it. Besides this, the world's weather pattern began to change drastically, with violent weather affecting many parts of the planet. The governments and scientists of the time met together and declared a global emergency in the same year. This age of Pollution was referred to as 'The Toxic Age', a term coined by pollution scientists in the USA.
As the world continued to suffer from the pollution, the governments and scientists of the world feared that the pollution would only increase, causing more lethal conditions, in which the human race would not be able to survive. Fearing the loss of civilisation and all that humans had built up over thousands of years, the scientists of the world came together to find a solution. They all agreed that what was to come would destroy the human race, and there would be no way to save humanity. But they didn't want civilisation, science, and culture, which had been built up by humans over eons to die with the human race. Thus, in the year 2089, they decided upon what they considered the only thing that could possibly save civilisation, which was adopted by all the countries in the UN.
From that year onwards, all children born deformed were not operated upon to make them like normal humans, but to be made better. These children would be the forebears of a new race, which would replace humans when they died out, and carry on civilisation. This new race was to be called Homo Novus, with the nickname of Blades, as they were supposed to be able to cut through any situation that arose. Blades were made stronger, faster and with far better immune systems than humans, and they were made with much more powerful senses and abilities. With the goal of making more Blades, from then on, women were encouraged by the governments to have children as, if they were born normal, they would go towards making up for the vast loss in human life, and if they were born deformed, they would become part of the new race.
But an event that would change the circumstances entirely was about to occur. In 2109, a scientist in China invented a machine that drew pollution out of the atmosphere and ground. These were used in vast quantities all over the world, and by 2111, the emergency was called off, as most of the pollution had been taken out of the atmosphere.
But this left the Blades. They had been made for a reason which no longer existed. The scientists and governments left them high and dry with no aid, and without supervision. They felt that they did not require Blades anymore. Most Humans had always feared and detested Blades, whom they considered as freaks who didn't deserve to live. And now the government had removed their protection of the Blades. The Blades had no warm feelings for humanity either, and most of them considered themselves superior to humans, whom they believed were only fit to serve Blades as slaves. This was a critical time for the planet. Two races stood, one physically stronger and one numerically stronger. The two were each opposing the other, and of this situation, there were only two possible outcomes- Blades and Humans could learn to co-exist, or one could annihilate the other...
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