♫ Echoes of the Past ♫
20XX

After her extensive research in the fields of genetic modification and synthesis of biological tissue, Dr. Elizabeth Green reaches out to famous engineer Dr. Thomas Light with a proposition to collaborate. The project itself is something never before done: a robot made of flesh. There were genetically-modified children already running around, with antennae on their heads or bodies with unnaturally pronounced muscles, but she proclaimed it to be completely different. Something that will combine the strongest aspects of man and machine.
Something to surpass humanity.

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21XX

Many years after the passing of both of her creators, Roll Asterisk is released out of hibernation in Light Labs. Even so many years into the future, and even with her apparent crudeness, she was revolutionary. She woke up to a world where genetic modification was in full swing. Rich families used genetic modification to make their bloodlines appear exotic and beautiful. Many sub-humans, and subsequently biorobots grown from Asterisk’s data, were made for research and physical labour on alien planets, many were made as weapons for still-warring factions…
...Some were made only because humanity wanted to play God.

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212X

It backfired. Subhumans were fed up with being toys and tools. They began to rebel. They had elected their leader, Backslash. He was a subhuman, specialised war fodder, specifically. His manufacturers thought him to have died in one of their wars. The conflict had began escalating more and more under his command, and his goal? Eliminate all humans. “Rip it out with the root”, he said. Setting up base on Lua, he sent out “rescue missions” to subhuman-inhabited worker colonies, taking down their human leaders, and inviting them to join the cause. Shortly, all humans off Earth were hunted down and contained in one place.

Despite being part of the oppressed, most biorobots had little interest in joining the now human-dubbed “Mavericks”. Most only had an illusion of free will, and Asterisk herself, despite being truly autonomous, thought the resistance to be barbaric and violent. However, her diplomatic attitude had to be reluctantly thawed as she was called to be a leader of the "Maverick Hunters"

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2180

To everyone involved, the conflict felt like it would never end. Both leaders, Asterisk and Backslash, were blamed by everyone for their losses, and their ideas of "thawing for pacifism" and "taking out the root" seemed like demented fairytales.
Nowhere near Earth was safe as it had become a massive battlefield, and the only advancements made were in the field of weaponry…

Weaponry that Backslash had directed at planet Earth on January 1st, 2180… and fired, as if to celebrate the new year. And it wasn’t long until Asterisk sent her response back to Lua…

Soon, both Earth and its moon were turned into shards.
Humans are now extinct.

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♫ A Hopeful Future ♫

Currently it is the year 20 A.H. (or AD 2200), January 12. Many have only recently finished celebrating the beginning of a new century.
With more completely sentient biorobots and no baseline human species, the concept of Humanity is being redefined.
Earth may be in shambles, but that only means there is more reason to delve into and explore the infinite vastness of space.

And so, as the wheel of history begins to spin again, a new start awaits Humanity.

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USEFUL RESOURCES

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PLANETS DOCUMENT

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