Post by Fahrenheit on Nov 19, 2013 0:59:54 GMT
history & plot
THE GLORY DAYS
The old history books speak of a time in the history of Pokéarth when the lands lived in harmony. When one region was not rewarded where the others were punished for little reason. When Pokemon flourished as much - if not more so - than the human population they stood beside, forming partnerships with a person called a trainer to battle others of their kind and aimed to be the very best. The Pokemon League was not strict. They reigned over their individual regions and helped track down and fight crime, set up a few laws and helped to enforce them, but when the people were so self sufficient with Pocket Monsters at there side, there was no need for an all controlling government. After all, if criminal organizations from Team Rocket to Flare could be taken down by mere teenagers, there wasn't much that the League would have to step in on. For many years, this proved to be a nice set up; the relationship between the fighters who earned their way to the title of Champion or Elite Four or those voted into the more political side of the League had a very respectful, productive, and - dare it be said? - friendly relationship with one another. But for as effective as it was, it was also rather susceptible.
They called themselves the Oberste, appearing like a thief in the night - cliché as it is - and taking the elections by storm. No one knew where they came from or how they gained so many followers in such a short span of time, but before the common folk really knew what was happening, the Oberste was in complete control of the Pokemon League - and their lives. When the League was shut down, no one really knew what to make of it. For the most part, it had so little impact on their life, nothing really changed. A few ambitious trainers were cut short in collecting their gym badges, but the quality of life was not mutated in any way, shape, and/or form. If anything, in some ways, it actually improved depending on who you were and where you lived. Regional borders were dissolved, unity between regions was promoted, and former trainers took jobs that helped to make the world go 'round. For decades, the changes were so slight and so gradual, no one really minded. However, when a man by the name of Ciello Escalus declared himself leader of the Oberste party and, by extension, the world, the facade of kindness was easily lost.
THE REVOLUTION DAYS
Illyis, Nevita, and Fripperi. These were the names of the original three provinces that made up the entirety of Pokéarth. With six regions, they were split evenly amongst the three - Kanto and Johto went to Illyis, Hoenn and Sinnoh to Nevita, and Unova and Kalos to Fripperi. Not even a century after the borders were drawn and strict government branches placed into each province had passed when the distinct favor toward the province of Illyis appear. The Citadel - the capital of the world - was built within its borders. They had more freedom than the other two provinces. The better farmland, better access to industrial machines. Poverty, hunger, and homelessness decreased at a much faster rate than any time before in the history of Pokéarth. The people of Kanto and Johto rejoiced in their splendor-filled life and conveniently turned a blind eye to what was happening within the borders of the other two provinces.
Where Illyis flourished, the people found, Nevita and Fripperi suffered. Natural resources came in an abundance in Nevita, but the number of workers and the machines they had access to were so few, the process of mining them out was incredibly difficult, time consuming, and hardly even worth the effort. However, the need for such resources outweighed the needs of the people and any citizen who could work was left with a massive workload on their shoulders. Essentially, the entire province was turned into one massive mine where the workers suffered from exhaustion no one had ever known under the watchful eye of the Pokemon League. Fripperi, on the other hand, was a province run by machines. Their technological advancements were far superior to any seen before their time and all of their creations worked to help make the Citadel the paradise it would some day be known to be. However, the people of Fripperi were gripped by terrible fear. Constantly pushed around by Illyis - and sometimes even Nevita - their territory was stolen, their children abducted, their homes destroyed, and their goods all swept away right under their noses. For all of the incredible machines they were able to craft, they had little idea of how to use them to properly defend themselves. In the end, they became the bullied child of the world and suffered the worst from the new set up.
Naturally, with one province favored above the other two, tensions were bound to rise between the three. Roughly one hundred years passed before it was simply too much to handle and a revolution was sparked when an ambitious Nevitan assassinated a government official within their borders. People from all over Pokéarth - Mostly Nevitans, a few Fripparians, and even the occasion Illyis supporter - banded together, declaring war on the people who had done this to them, and fought to rebuild the old order. It lasted less than a month. The massive rebellion prepared to storm the streets of the Citadel before, with the aid of the Legendary Pokemon native to the area, the government crushed their attack in a heartbeat. Hundreds died in the attack, hundreds more executed for treason, and the ones that were spared banished to the remains of the desert region Orre - a place no respectable person would ever care to live in. Enraged, but afraid to attack head on, many people from Nevita packed their bags in a passive aggressive onslaught against the Citadel and the people in it and joined their "brothers" in the wastelands west of Johto. In the years to come, they would go from calling themselves the Orre Empire to the Province of Akiro in yet another passive aggressive jab. In response, the Citadel declared Pokemon training illegal for all humans lacking a trainer license, a piece of plastic that took a great deal of effort to earn and was the only ticket to even thinking of training a Pokemon. Not thinking the new law would be upheld, many broke it with a half hearted attempt at secrecy, but those caught battling without a license were swiftly executed. In the end, everyone recognized the law, only a few brave members of Akiro willing to break it and sneaky enough to get by with the crime and members from Illyis and the rare member of Nevita earning the right to battle legally. "To prevent another attempted revolution", the government claimed. The people took it as just another sign of their lost rights.
THE HEINOUS DAYS
However, even once the possibility of a revolution was out of the picture, tensions were still brewing within the land of Fripperi. Even though their number of rebellers was small in comparison to those in Nevita, they ended up with the short end of the stick and were punished more severely than their sister Province. Seeing as Nevita's population had been cut nearly in half by those killed, banished, or who emigrated and they needed all of the hands they could get when fishing out resources for Illyis, they couldn't very well do much more damage to the province without expecting it to collapse in on itself. However, Fripperi, whose number of people killed or banished were few could be punished for treason. They had more than enough people to supply the machines needed by everyone else in Pokéarth. If the invasion of their land and slaughter of their people from before was horrible, what the government and the people of Illyis did to them then was so much worse. After years of needless suffering, the Fripparians threw down their hats and called it quits. With the aid of their native water-type Legendary, Keldeo, as well as aid from the Eon Duo and Kyogre from Hoenn and the native Yvental, they broke apart from the links between their island regions and the main land, sending themselves even further away to a point where it would be difficult to locate. From there, with the aid of the Eon Duo once more, they built a protective barrier around their homes, preventing all access inside unless permitted from the indoors.
The lack of quality machinery entering Illyis crippled the province and worsened Nevita along side it. To make matters worse, in the first and most important of many rebellious acts they would commit, Akiro raided Hoenn and stole Nevita's claims over it, allowing most Nevitans to flee to Sinnoh, but killing many for what they considered "sport". Trained on self preservation, the government began cutting close ties with the province of Illyis, focusing their attention closer on their paradise - the Citadel, untouched after all of those years - and began construction of a massive dome to cover the multi-layered city to protect it from the possibility of an attack from Akiro. Due to their lack of attention, the people of Illyis grew antsy; they weren't nearly as poor off as Nevita, Akiro, and the assumed destroyed Fripperi, but fear that they would soon be crippled in such a way mad them timid, upset, and even a little angry. However, there was little anyone could do to speak out against the Oberste - with how the world was, even if every person in all three immediate provinces joined together, there was still not a one hundred percent chance of victory against the oppressive government.
As conditions in Nevita and Akiro slowly tumbled even further into the abyss than they were before, a plot was devised in the depths of the Citadel's blackest hearts. With centuries in the making, reform would be incredibly difficult. It was a long, tedious process they did not have the time for. However, nothing was to say that they could not level everything and build it all from the ground up. And, with their Citadel blocked off from the rest of humanity by a one way mirror and the belief that everyone has died in nuclear fallout, that is exactly what they intend to do...
