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[attr="class","gendesc"]By the year 2160 the world had seen more peace and unity than it ever had in human history. Treaties were being contracted between every country into one massive alliance to promote the advancement of technology and human expansion. The leaders of these world powers understood that they had allowed the cost of their advancements to build too high and needed to join together to face the adversity of global problems. On the twilight of the 22nd century with the potential of war and betrayals to undo all of their work the main powers used their influence to gather all of the world’s nations into one unified power under the leadership of the seven strongest nations. On January 1st of 2200, the dawn of the 23rd century, the world united under the banner of New Terra.

Unfortunately, New Terra was not able to address all of the problems that had faulted the world. Wars in the late 21st century had ravaged much of the surface along with the global climate changing actions that mankind had taken in its younger years. The face of poverty, starvation and disease began to drive people back towards the few remaining cities in the world. While technology was rapidly advancing it only did so in these centralized locations leaving the majority of the world entirely without power. With only less than a billion people now populating the planet mankind was no longer the planet’s master.

Outside of these cities are only the overgrown remains of civilization with ruined cities, towns and roads. Few of these places are inhabited anymore and instead have been given over to nature who has, in turn, embraced them to hold these relics in time with the roots of new life. Those that do live outside of the major cities are entirely reliant on the land, many crafting their own clothing, equipment and homes using many of the same tools, trades, and materials that man had depended on thousands of years ago. There is marginal trade from the city to the outskirts in produce and other foods that cannot be reliably grown in the city.

The fact that only a few cities remain does not take away from their grandeur. Even the smallest of these cities is the size of two or more of the great cities of the 21st century. Sotiria is the largest and most pronounced of these cities. Over the decades as people flocked to the cities construction grew around them and continues to the present day, adding miles of new structures and new districts each year.

Mankind, who had once faced the midnight hour of their lives, now looked towards a new future through the power of these cities. Sotiria, being the largest, leads the cutting edge of this new progression to lead mankind to a new frontier. Behind the curtain of pride and unity lies the truth that it is not the leaders of New Terra that run the world, but those who run Sotiria. Wealth has never left its spot of power and now acts as an even greater barrier between the classes as the elite are entirely untouchable in this new order.

With the increase of crime in the cities, tension has continued to spark in rise. Riots have been short but explosive leading to many causalities and new laws. Still, even with protests being denied and offenders arrested there has yet to be peace between the fortunate and the not so.

A force is growing outside of the attention of authority. In the dusty streets, the dank sewers, and the dark country something is growing. Soon the true face of mankind will be revealed to prove that man has never evolved past its darkest instincts.