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==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://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. | |||
As the basis for Oni's alternate history timeline, my point of divergence occurs in 2000 AD when a scientist in Oni's timeline develops phase technology. This allowed contact between our world and another place. In our timeline, some small difference caused this technology to not be discovered. In Oni’s timeline, while experimenting with the "phase veil", some small seed or seeds of life slipped through into Oni’s world unseen. This foreign life was able to grow even in Earth’s environment because it was Daodan-enhanced; all life is, in this other place. | |||
According to this premise, the atmosphere is becoming toxic not because of industrial pollution (as the fans tend to assume, but is never stated) but because Daodan-enhanced life is coming through the phase veil and taking root here, [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/xenoforming xenoforming] our planet to resemble their home. At first it is only simpler kinds of life, like bacteria and plants, but as those flourish here, larger alien life forms which depend on the simpler life as food are able to live here too. | |||
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 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 ("[http://oni.bungie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=52760#p52760 troublemaker]"), he then decided that if humans had this same extraterrestrial process inside them, they could adapt to the xenoformed environment in the 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. | |||
==Themes== | ==Themes== | ||
Oni starts us off with a seemingly controlled situation; the WCG is in charge, putting the world into a kind of stasis. On a more personal level, Konoko has been trained as a cop and has an SLD assistant, and that world's all she's ever known. The end of Oni, however, leaves us with everything being turned on its head. Therefore, I think it's natural to be led to the notion of opposites, for both story-following and story-telling reasons: | Oni starts us off with a seemingly controlled situation; the WCG is in charge, putting the world into a kind of stasis. On a more personal level, Konoko has been trained as a cop and has an SLD assistant, and that world's all she's ever known. The end of Oni, however, leaves us with everything being turned on its head. Therefore, I think it's natural to be led to the notion of opposites, for both story-following and story-telling reasons: | ||