A man sat in silence under the illumination of a lamp, propping his head with a fist. On the table lay a book. His face was hidden in the shadows, wearing an indescribable emotion. At periodic intervals, he would grip the next page and slowly flip it over. At times, he would pause and take a deep breath, as if hesitating, unwilling for it to end.
*An excerpt from "Forsaken Era And The Null Order", by Jennifer Khrishnev.
Chapter 1: Prologue and general information.
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1: Ideology Of the Null Order
Key issue: What were the origins of their thinking and how did it develop?
The Shattering .
491 years ago, the Sky Shattered, pushing humanity to the brink of extinction.
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The Mother Stone.
The Mother Stone is the only divine artifact in Arkhaven, and is the reason why humanity has persisted to this day. Even its origins are not recorded in ancient scriptures. It is said that the mother stone is the sole origin of all Arcane energy within the world…
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The Ten Year Plan
"…the government thus agrees that something urgent has to be done to fix our problem of resource shortage. Space is a problem unable to be solved, while our limited resources are unable to sustain the entire population as it sees fit.
This problem is too small to be solved without massive reformations. Drastic changes must be put in place immediately to guarantee the future of humanity. In a unanimous decision, this is to be the final solution that we will carry out over the next 10 years to establish a ground stable enough to rebuild civilization.
Starting from any point 100 kilometers from the mother stone, a boundary shall be established in a circular arc to enclose the area within. This is to mark the split of the kingdom into 2 distinct sections. Let the area inside henceforth be designated as the inner city, and the area outside be known as the outer city.the government agrees to internalise the majority of their remaining resource usage within the inner city…"
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The Null Order
The Organisation known as The Null Order remains, in modern society, the most prominent figure of terrorism. While their infamy was proclaimed from their responsibility in causing Protocol Zero in year 2281, their ideological origins have long been a subject of academic debate.
Upon nuanced examination of recovered internal documents and my own investigations, a more concrete truth emerges. The Order's motivations appear not to be rooted in the grievances of the present, but rather anchored in what happened during the beginning of The Forsaken Era.
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*end of book.
Looking at the crude rip line where the last page should have been, the man closed the book. He sat in silence for a long time.
He stood up from his chair and moved closer to the window. Before him, countless lights illuminated the city that spanned a hundred kilometers.
He breathed in the fresh air and moved his mind elsewhere.
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THEWORLDWASDOOMEDFROMTHESTART.
"HE" SEALED OUR FATE.
JOIN THE NULL ORDER.
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