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| The Black Market | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 18 2017, 08:00 PM (2 Views) | |
| KosmicBeast | Apr 18 2017, 08:00 PM Post #1 |
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Inherit the Stars
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The Black Market Most wouldn’t expect Daem to have a Black Market, right? Well, it does, in fact and it’s fairly reasonable when it comes to ‘dealing under the table’. There’s always advantages and disadvantages when it deals with new technology or something that is labeled as being a powerful weapon (whether it’s a bio-weapon or a weapon of mass destruction). Harvesting Catalysts in the black market is generally stated as ascertaining a bio-weapon in most cases, seeing as the Catalyst itself is biologically made, but mechanical. How is a Catalyst made to be exact? That will be explained later/further on (not in this post directly, though). The Black Market has been going on since the age of man first arrived on Daem, making it nearly impossible to defeat seeing as Man has developed and created machines far greater than their own power to comprehend. As Man tends to be reckless, arrogant, and edged to their flaws, they only want two things: power and the need to survive. To be the dominant race amongst all. But, how can one be dominant on another’s planet? Simple, they use their resources, limit them, kill anything that’s a threat to them, and harvest their main power source: their Catalysts. When dealing with these men, it isn’t just asking to bargain, you have to have something they want. A necessity more or less, not something that’s proven to be weak or falter. They want power, not a malfunctioning device that will become useless. With that in mind, some of the demons on Democritus have been dealing under the Revenant’s nose to the blinded, power-hungry humans, giving them something that is by far more powerful than gold, power, or hunger itself—the source of all energy on Daem: the Catalyst. Having one of these in possession wields greater power than the energy found on Earth. Just one of these could bring Earth back on its feet, energizing the planet with better performance and the ability to renew itself and its resources on command, without humans having to do all the work. But, there’s one problem: Earth wouldn’t be able to sustain such power. In the event, Earth’s core would be devoured, crushed, and most importantly, become combustible and rupture. So, they make the Catalyst smaller and import only a fraction of the piece in the core of Earth. But, in the end, Earth gave in and imploded. Man couldn’t harness the power within the Catalyst itself. The rich coding alone is enough to confuse an organism, one such as humans. But somehow one was able to breach and crack through the encoding and figure out the puzzles of the Catalyst Core. How? Simple, they had help from a demon itself. Breaking them to their knees, corrupting them, humans manage to make some of the demons their work horses, figures of their power and what they can do. The Catalyst was their ‘Golden Egg’ or ‘Ninth Symphony’ in terms of being relative to power and technology that would alter civilization as a whole. The Black Market wasn’t a trade with organs or anything in particular around that criteria, in fact, it was dealt between the trade of a demon’s Catalyst. Humans used their Catalysts as resources of power for their machines, one of them being the functioning drill that runs off the Core energy of the planet. Humans call it the Destroyer (U5-D1), whilst the Revenants refer it as the Dar’lye (which means Monster in their terminology). The Catalyst is a reactor or a generator in terms of being their heart, so all function is utilized through that one bio-mechanical machine that operates heavily in their bodies. Once humans laid their hands on it, it became a weapon of mass destruction, and ultimately: the prized possession of their time that was able to give them more than just power, but extended life as well. Humans may have become a irrelevant factor to Daem, but somehow even the most intelligent and sophisticated found the Catalyst cryptic and complex compared to anything else they’ve ever seen. Precisely cracking the Catalyst outer shell was one thing, but shrinking the Core itself? Dwarfing it? That was another. A Revenant only had the full capability to shrink its Core without damaging, destroying, fracturing, cracking, or even fabricating it. So it took a precise, careful, and adequate human to do the job successfully. Humans built weapons that rendered bullets encased with a metal that was able to pierce the flesh of a Revenant, and any form of life on Daem itself. Using the Catalyst’s metal by melting it down at a specific degree in Fahrenheit, they were able to cast bullets in the metal, equipping themselves with a weapon that held the capability in killing a Revenant. And that became dangerous within the Revenant community. Suits were made from the metal as well, but also were built around the harvested Catalysts over time, engineering them to suit the Catalyst core to conduct the same energy and power a Revenant had alone, and that became successful amongst the humans. Machines, weapons, and various other items revolved around the accessory, making their surge easier for them, and more achievable than what they had before the discovery of the Catalyst. Not only are the Revenants being killed off with their own power and weapons, they’re being used against it with an integrated power that is subjected to being negative with the Catalyst. With a Cyst in hand as well with a non-infected Catalyst, the humans were able to combine their powers together to form a much larger Catalyst known as the Reactor. With that Reactor, it becomes a power like no other. Stronger than the Catalyst itself, which is why Revenants never wandered in the zone of combining the two because it’s madness, insanity, and with that much power, it made one go mad for more. It was forbidden by Revenant himself (I know it’s a she, but for the cause of them, they say he). The Black Market proved to be worthy for the humans, let alone their masterminds of self destruction, obliteration, and obtaining pure power. As it settled in their minds, they only knew the means of destruction and the ability to destroy what is in front of them, seeing blindly with negative intent. What the Revenants did to them, they have no idea, only the fact that they were a threat, supposedly, for the humans surviving, for the humans have to be the dominant species, no other. And with Revenant gone, they are left defenseless and abandoned in guide, besides the hopes of Amaryllis leading them in the wrong direction (as she has been for some time now), they only cling onto her for the last strong hope, which is left bleeding until Revenant returns, in the savior of her species and planet. But when that day comes? They’re not sure. And thanks to Aly’vyn’s parents, the humans got far to where they are now because of them. Which is one of the heated arguments lead against Aly’vyn herself in the regards of treason, in the supposed manner that leads them to strike against her in means of her aiding the humans, when in fact, she has never dealt with them in her life, only fought against them (but some think she’s only bluffing and giving them a show, what they want to see). Of course, Alex Rivera (the Overseer) was the main reason why the importation of the Black Market was even started. |
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