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==Backstory== | ==Backstory== | ||
Oni's timeline has already veered away from ours — for instance, we have passed the start of the World Coalition Government (the manual says "2032", but this is [http://web.archive.org/web/20210324174419/http://oni.bungie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=52887#p52887 meant to say] "2012", the same year the Freedom Riots happened), the development of phase technology ([[Quotes/Weapons#ph_stream|first used in 2012]]), and the beginning of the BioCrisis — but it's possible to reconcile all the differences in our timeline and Oni's by tying them to a single point of divergence in history and calling Oni's timeline an [[wp: | Oni's timeline has already veered away from ours — for instance, we have passed the start of the World Coalition Government (the manual says "2032", but this is [http://web.archive.org/web/20210324174419/http://oni.bungie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=52887#p52887 meant to say] "2012", the same year the Freedom Riots happened), the development of phase technology ([[Quotes/Weapons#ph_stream|first used in 2012]]), and the beginning of the BioCrisis — but it's possible to reconcile all the differences in our timeline and Oni's by tying them to a single point of divergence in history and calling Oni's timeline an [[wp:Alternate history|alternate history]]. This also makes everything easier to explain to the audience. | ||
Before continuing, an unanswered question from Oni is how Hasegawa could have invented the Daodan Chrysalis. It's way too advanced to be a mere next step in the technology of the time, and he only had up to 3 years to do it, since the [[Quotes/Manual#Konoko|manual says]] Konoko was orphaned (meaning, separated from her dad) at age 3. My approach to the backstory has Hasegawa inventing the ''Chrysalis'' — the implantable form of the Daodan — but not the Daodan itself. | Before continuing, an unanswered question from Oni is how Hasegawa could have invented the Daodan Chrysalis. It's way too advanced to be a mere next step in the technology of the time, and he only had up to 3 years to do it, since the [[Quotes/Manual#Konoko|manual says]] Konoko was orphaned (meaning, separated from her dad) at age 3. My approach to the backstory has Hasegawa inventing the ''Chrysalis'' — the implantable form of the Daodan — but not the Daodan itself. | ||
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By 2012, a few things happened as a result. For one, the BioCrisis was serious enough that the WCG had to be formed. The manual states that the purpose of unifying the nations of the world was to avoid the spiraling debt that many were in. In our timeline, some countries are in financial trouble, but in Oni's, the situation was made worse by having to deal with the gradual toxification of the atmosphere, which led to the construction of Wilderness Preserves and Atmospheric Conversion Centers. | By 2012, a few things happened as a result. For one, the BioCrisis was serious enough that the WCG had to be formed. The manual states that the purpose of unifying the nations of the world was to avoid the spiraling debt that many were in. In our timeline, some countries are in financial trouble, but in Oni's, the situation was made worse by having to deal with the gradual toxification of the atmosphere, which led to the construction of Wilderness Preserves and Atmospheric Conversion Centers. | ||
After Jamie’s death, Hasegawa analyzed the Wilderness to find an answer as to what killed her and what made the Preserve so dangerous, and he noticed that the same genetic signature/process was occurring in all the hostile/alien plant life. Naming it the Daodan ("[ | After Jamie’s death, Hasegawa analyzed the Wilderness to find an answer as to what killed her and what made the Preserve so dangerous, and he noticed that the same genetic signature/process was occurring in all the hostile/alien plant life. Naming it the Daodan ("[https://www.linguee.com/chinese-english/translation/搗蛋.html troublemaker]"), he then decided that if humans had this same extraterrestrial process inside them, they could adapt to the xenoformed environment in the same way that this life is adapting to (and changing) Earth. | ||
This approach unifies the development of the Daodan Chrysalis, the reason for the WCG and the cause of the BioCrisis, and explains all of this with a single change in our recent past, which is the successful development of experimental phase technology in Oni's world and not ours. | This approach unifies the development of the Daodan Chrysalis, the reason for the WCG and the cause of the BioCrisis, and explains all of this with a single change in our recent past, which is the successful development of experimental phase technology in Oni's world and not ours. | ||