Lucium
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posted July 02, 2008 09:00 AM |
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Anarchy online anyone?
I couldnt find any threads on this game, so here goes!
Im just wondering, if there are anyone on the forum that plays this game?
I just bought age of conan, but my computer goes into spasms everytime i look up from the ground, so ive put it on hold=P
Thus me being _very_ tired of WoW, i had but one option, reactivate my Anarchy Online account!
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The story sofar
Somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy was a planet orbited by three moons. Life was created here by the Source. It was paradise, a Garden of Eden, in which living beings co-existed in harmony. Most extraordinary of all these creatures were the immortal Xan. With the metaphysical nature of the world, only evolution could limit how good the Xan were at manipulating their environments. They were without flaw in every way and masters of knowledge.
That is, until the Xan identified the Source and its properties. This knowledge gave them terrifying power and in harnessing the Source, the wheels of catastrophe set in motion. Gone was the harmony and happiness, replaced by dissatisfaction and arrogance and strife. Two factions split from the once peaceful Xan; The Redeemed and The Unredeemed, and a conflict arose that would never end.
They made technology so advanced and magnificent it could explore and chart most parts of existence, but still the Xan were unable to understand the net which holds it all together. In an effort to grasp this final challenge, they built a network of enormous structures meant to reach into the matter of all living things and find the answers to their questions.
The consequence of their exploit threatened the very fabric of the planet and a time came where they realized they had gone too far, but it was too late to turn around. Only by leaving the planet could they hope to save their undying souls, rather than die in the expected collapse of the planet. The factions built themselves gigantic arks, big enough to transport most of them, but not all, from the planet and into the wastelands of the universe in search for other habitable worlds.
When the planet could no longer take the strain and abuse, it died in a cataclysm so devastating it was ripped apart. Any living organism; those that did not board the arks, animals, plants and anything left behind on the planet died that hour; their material bodies destroyed and their souls sucked into the raging inferno of the dying planet. Reality split in two and the material world was left dry and transient, while the metaphysical dimension, in which life force is eternal, phased into another plane of existence. In the process, a piece of the planet’s land mass, the areas origin to the cataclysm, were blueprinted in the metaphysical realm. This pseudo-material mirror of the landmasses has ever since floated in the metaphysical part of reality like a wraith of what was once paradise.
The world was forever changed. The Redeemed and the Unredeemed, fleeing from the wrath of their crib, were reborn into a crude, cold world where they were no longer immortal.
Behind them, their planet was a lifeless rock, and their civilization was left in pieces far underneath the surface. They had no option but to search the galaxy for new homes. Here, they would plant the seeds of life and wait, maybe for millions of years, until their descendants would explore space and one day return to the cradle of life, to their home planet called Rubi-Ka, and they would once more be immortal. It was a goal worth waiting for.
Earth
The planet Terra - Earth - was one of the destinations of the Rubi-Ka exodus. This planet had everything needed for an intelligent species to advance. Eventually, humans laid the planet under them, blissfully ignorant of their origin and destiny.
Despite their fantastic evolution, humans were a depraved species. Theirs was a history filled with terrible acts against each other. Murders, wars, terrorism and deep corruption stretched through the veins of the people. At the same time, there were beacons of hope and light. Technology advanced to a level where most illnesses were kept in check and one could recover from even the worst physical trauma. And then there was nano technology.
In 1949, a Russian scientist defected from the communist rule of the Soviet Union. He had been handpicked by a mysterious group who told him that they had chosen him to develop the technology of eternal life, that his own body would simply stop aging until the goal was reached. For the next fifty-some years, he changed identity many times until he in 2007 became the CEO of the biotech corporation Farmatek Inc.
Seven years after Farmatek was established, its scientists managed to stabilize so called nanobots and make them work within the human body, a revolution in biotechnology. But the leaders of Farmatek had other goals than medical ethics. In their search for immortality, this was but one step. Without moral and remorse, the corporation staged an outburst of a highly aggressive virus that killed 75% of the Earth’s population.
In the mass hysteria that followed, extremist groups and religious cults fed to the paranoia, promising the End of Days was just around the corner. Most of these cults were harmless, nothing more than bantering lunatics who had no resources and not enough dedication to follow through their rhetoric. But one did, amply helped by Farmatek, and ultimately delivered the final blow to human kind.
In 2019, hell was released on the planet. By then, those who had been chosen to live on by Farmatek had taken underground, safe from the nuclear fallout, the atomic winter and the depredation of human kind. By now, they were near immortal. They were the Omega.
For more than 1300 years they would stay hidden, while Earth healed. They left the caves to enter a world in dire need and brought with them peace and prosperity. They did this by killing and controlling the surviving humans, making them their slaves.
From the ashes of the long winter and its battered survivors a new human was born. They were much more resistant against radiation, stronger and more resilient than the Homo Sapiens. Evolution had taken humans one step further. Mother Nature’s new child was the Homo Solitus, and they were destined to inherit Earth.
A coupling between an Omega man a Solitus woman resulted in a baby boy, a small miracle in conception, nurturing all the benefits and strengths of each, this boy would grow up to lead the Solitus through the Emancipation war, shedding the slave manacles the Omega had put on them 10.000 years prior. David Marlin was his name and he would later become the President of the World Council.
After the Solitus had won their freedom and drove the Omega under ground and into hiding again, David Marlin led the world through its first few hundred years of democracy and freedom, before he mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again. In secret, he had left Earth and was on his way to a destination he was inexplicably drawn to, a planet he had never heard of, but still knew deep in his heart. Rubi-Ka.
In the shadow of David Marlin’s preparation to leave Earth, a new corporation was formed. It was named Omni-Tek, in secret founded by the Omega who used to run Farmatek, and through it they planned world domination once more. This time, they wouldn’t use brute force to reach their goal but instead wait patiently until the time was right.
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Ooh, and the game is free to play uptil the two newest addOns.
Read some more at www.anarchy-online.com!
So what do you guys think? ^^
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and yes, fixers are a class in Anarchy online. ^^ COME ON, sign up today! 
