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An Updated and (Hopefully) Final Species List for the AU!!

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This AU is large and multi-faceted, with many "main characters" throughout different parts of it. The prologue, though? You could say these three are the main characters... So here they are! Klaus, Galea, and Elma!

@bionisinterior was wonderful and collabed on this with me. I did the sketch, color, and shading while he made the wonderful lines!!

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Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

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Tomorrow I promise to start on lore posts, I've just been lazyyyy

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Very proud of the art Jooj and I did. Klaus manlet and Elma huge and Galea just kinda average. Love it

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This AU is large and multi-faceted, with many "main characters" throughout different parts of it. The prologue, though? You could say these three are the main characters... So here they are! Klaus, Galea, and Elma!

@bionisinterior was wonderful and collabed on this with me. I did the sketch, color, and shading while he made the wonderful lines!!

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Slowly working out images for the squad (manlet Klaus, manlet Klaus)

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Maybe I'll finally get to trying to design a female cross for this AU

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Three more coming right up!! Thank you!!

The Machina come from an entirely different planet than the High Entia and Homs. Both are in the same star system and before the Ganglion they got along well. Now there's some... tension.

She's not fully planned out, but I do have a male cross in mind who is a Mim... So, I want to make a female cross who's a J-Body! I thought it would be an interesting idea to explore.

Galea has a bit of a crush on Elma -- hard not to fall for a pretty alien woman, am I right? She keeps this to herself for the time, though, because she feels Klaus would use it against her.

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Hehe, thank you!! Three facts about this AU let's go!

Elma's Mim (as well as KOS-MOS and T-elos as J-Bodies) are based on Mary Magdelene. In her time on Earth, Elma dabbled in many religions and took an interest in that figure specifically!

Pyra appears in the next fic (after I finish the Wrothian fic hehe) due to Klaus being a shitty creator. He pressures Mythra and Malos into leaving the Artifices unmanned, so to speak, and she blames herself for it, leading to Pyra's birth.

Meyneth and Zanza exist less as beings and more myths/ancient but long dead gods. Galea and Klaus may have links to them that are sort of... reincarnation based, though they don't realize it.

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From the Stars, In Your Cradle Chapter 1

Games represented in this chapter: All to a degree!

Characters in this chapter: Elma, Galea, Klaus, mentions of the Trinity Processor and Original Moebius

[First- You are here!] | [Previous] | [Next] | [Final]

First, humanity discovered the Conduit. And then She discovered humanity.

First, humanity discovered the Conduit. And then She discovered humanity.

Perhaps calling Her She is incorrect, though. For one, it almost deifies Her to capitalize it like that. Put Her in a position that She doesn’t believe in. In a role of the divine that does not exist. She surely wouldn’t want that, and so perhaps it’s time to rewind and explain who She is.

A Xenoform of unknown origin, who appeared on Earth soon after the establishment of Project Trinity. Her name was Elma, and she came bearing a prophecy of utter destruction, should they not listen to her.

A war, much larger than humanity. A war between two factions, more advanced than they could dream of, despite the holy grail they had found. The Ganglion and the Ghosts would wipe them from the universe as if they had never existed.

But then, she offered a hand. Offered to help them become strong enough to survive. Be it through saving Earth or simply leaping from their cradles to find a new home. And without much of a choice, they took it.

She knew more about the Conduit than any of them could hope to know. Understood how to truly harness the potential in a way they were only hoping to with slowly developing AIs. But she didn’t deter them, didn’t tell them to stop.

“Anything like this could be good for us,” she said. “Project Trinity could be a cornerstone of our defense.”

And so, the AIs continued to develop. Continued to learn and grow alongside the items they created. Continued to sync with the Conduit at levels normal people could only dream of syncing to.

They continued to grow, but they were not enough.

More programs were put into place. People trained to use alien technology. To use the things Elma called Skells, but the technology was almost too much for them. A young intern suggested making them more aligned with that of what humanity knows and suddenly, they were able to fight.

They fed the data, the blueprints, all to the Trinity Processor. They watched as the Ais grew more. Watched as they devised their own weapons called Artifices. They were similar to Skells, Elma remarked, despite the autonomous nature of the giant machines.

But even the Artifices would not be enough to repel the Ganglion and the Ghosts. They needed more. They needed to continue to work. And so, Project Exodus was born.

Pull humanity from their cradle, thrust them into the unknown. Hope they can survive so long as Elma is there to guide them. That was the hope of Project Exodus, the hope everytime dirty hands traded money to make the Arks possible.

Elma was not pleased with herself, but she did what she had to. She did what she must to ensure the survival of humanity. To save them from becoming nothing in the middle of a war they could never understand.

(A war some wondered if even she understood.)

In time a man named Klaus took over Project Trinity, though an older researcher was his co-lead at the time. The sync rate raised, as did his obsession with the Conduit. With saving humanity with it, if only Elma would share more. If only she would talk.

Elma did not talk. She continued to press forward on Project Exodus, instead.

Arks to escape on were not enough. There was no way to know when or if they would find a new home. No way to know if the crew and the passengers could survive the entire trip. They needed new bodies, one that could live on forever. Ones that could be replaced, even if one were to die.

And so, Project Origin was begun. Based in the loosest sense on the Trinity Processor. A woman co-leading Project Trinity was moved from one to the other to be the lead in due time. On Elma’s recommendation, even. She was still impressed by the call to adjust Skell schematics from when the woman was young.

The job was simple enough, and the hands-on approach of the woman -- of Galea -- was needed. The AIs needed to grow quickly, to be able to monitor the mental condition of humanity and of the people on the Arks. To build them the perfect bodies for the wait until the discovery of a new home.

And thus, the Mimesomes were born. Robotic bodies that could mimic the functions of one made of flesh and blood. The blue in their veins and the strange shape of their irises the only sign anything was different. The only sign they were not alive in the same sense as normal humans.

But they were enough to save humanity, and so they continued.

It was Professor Klaus who suggested another use for the robotic bodies the Origin Processor would create. Ones that would not belong to a human host, but instead to an AI, more rudimentary than those of the two processors but still able to learn.

Ones who could be given the memories of a human, who could be given the illusion of being alive, he said. Ones who would fight to keep humanity safe, despite not truly being a part of it. A way to keep more of humanity sitting comfortably.

With how many rich elites Elma had had to give space on the various Arks, she supposed more firepower on the ground would be needed. There were never enough Skell Pilots, either. 

J-Bodies were approved and began production. Each was assigned to a small regiment that was later assigned to Arks. They would not awaken until they were needed, and a part of Elma hoped they would be able to sleep forever.

Project Exodus continued, as did Projects Trinity and Origin. Each feeding into each other, each becoming grander by the day. Klaus more disillusioned, Galea more attached, and Elma more desperate. If they were to survive, things would have to be fast.

In the last few weeks on Rhadamanthus, one last bastion of research built by Aoidos to still stand, things were about to be messy. Things were going to be tense and things were going to be ugly.

And three people were going to be central to it. To the future of humanity and the future of the projects. Whether they wanted to be or not.

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Starting tomorrow, I'll be trying to crosspost all fic written so far~

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Today I'll look for a world building ask meme or make one and we can all have some fun ^-^

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I still need to decide if I should crosspost my fics for this AU on here, too. Would anyone be interested in that?