Post by dean on Apr 23, 2012 10:05:53 GMT -5
The State of the Union. Or...er-The World.
The world that that houses Doryan city isn’t all that different than the one we live in today. There are no flying cars, aliens, self-aware robots or world peace. America still seeks what it doesn’t need, Europe is still the tower of culture, Asia is still the pinnacle of tradition, Africa is still at war with itself, and the Middle East is still trying to decide who to fight next. Resources are still being used up faster than they can be found, oil is still a precious commodity and the only thing more rampant than corruption in government is greed everywhere else. Basically, for all of the advances in the past millennia, nothing has changed. People are still people.
After the first couple of decades of the early twenty-first century however, the private sector of the world as we know it had changed considerably. Along with the exposure of Shifters into the public eye, the trend that the United States had started of taking the advancement in the Aero-Space and Cyber-Technology out of Government hands and funding had spread to other principalities and groups worldwide. Places of industry like Tokyo, Austin, Dubai, New York and London became the place to find the cutting edge tech, not whole countries and organizations like it had been for the previous span of human history.
In a nutshell, the world powers inadvertently decided to privatize the advancement of the human race.
Dorian City
At the turn of the 21st century, one of mankind’s greatest secrets was revealed: The existence of people with the ability to transubstantiate into another species-or as they were dubiously dubbed, Shifters. The rest of the world was quick to fear them, putting their own label on them: Sub-Humans. Thus began the age-old tradition of separating and persecuting those who were different, talented, or otherwise cursed.
One group of industrialists saw the sheer public outcry from the “Sub-Human Issue” and made it their business to see how they could profit. Arthur Troy-the Steel baron, Ludwig DeNonne the art connoisseur, and Doryan Buchanan, the captain of industry. The three, led by Buchanan, came up with an idea-a concept for a city that was run off of the blood and sweat of lesser humans-the Shifters that had caused the world so much strife. The project, quickly titled Doryan city, was the crowning jewel in the three men’s empires, and it took all of their plutocratic connections to pull off, not to mention the political strings that had to be yanked and tied to get certain rights re-advocated to what was commonly being called “sub-humanism”. The construction and economic integration of Doryan took the remainder of the men’s life-times, barely seeing their elitist plans come to fruition before the crest of the 2050’s, but-as aristocracy does-they had the rest of their progeny to continue the legacy they had set forth.
Now, the current heads of what Doryan-goes call the Cerberus Family are Franklin Troy, Antoine DeNonne, and Dorian Buchanan II. The difference in this batch of heads though is the strength and span f their families. Each of the three has a number of children, the Buchanan’s at the most with 4 to support their aging father. Though all are an intricate part of modern-day Doryan life.For the full plot, click [here]
