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Back when I was still in school they asked us to write a paper about what it was like on the day the world ended. I've been out of school for a long time, but I thought I should put something down and give you all my account. Maybe show these kids a glimpse of what the world looked like before the Security Coalition patrolled the streets.
It's been about twenty years since god leaped out of a database and saved the world. Back then you didn’t walk around with communicators embedded in your heads. Heck, even having internal tech was science fiction. I don't know if it was better. But someone oughta know how we got to where we are now.
Twenty years ago, the Universal Security Coalition was smaller and went by a different name. The Horizon Initiative wasn’t bombing server banks and screaming about how mankind chose the easy way out. Though maybe they oughta consider that their god never came down from the sky to stop us from killing each other.
Back then there weren’t any rituals, backups, or morning greetings from the church networks. People woke up to nothing but flesh and maybe a bit of titanium and they went to work or school. I was taking a test on something meaningless when there was an announcement. Our normally jovial principal told everyone to cease instruction and turn to the news.
It was like something out of a movie. This giant, six-legged robot with airplanes and tanks all around it. Monsters with armies of their own. The news people were talking about a Foundation. Nobody knew what to think. After a few minutes, we all realized that the robot was real. The monsters were real. The armies were real. There were questions, a lot of them. And the giant robot answered us.
The first time Mekhane answered us it was horror and calming in equal measure. God's voice was a balm to people's nerves. The leader of the United Church had taken crews from news stations to go and speak with God. It wanted to speak with mankind and explain our future as a species.
God explained that he had killed the evil and now it was going to sit on a throne. Things happened fast after that. News stations were buzzing about this Broken God, now whole. Eventually, we came to know him as Mekhane. Or just God.
The blind were given artificial machine eyes. Amputees were given artificial limbs that felt real. Diseases were cured. In spite of itself, the world had come to find God. And he raised us up.
But his glory came at a cost. More people joined the Church Of The United God. More people walked around with chips embedded into their brains. People screamed about the mark of the beast, and the antichrist and hellfire. Then they did more than just scream.
There was a group called the Horizon Initiative. Their job had been to keep a tab on the more violent cults of the world and prevent them from awakening terrors of the deep. When Mekhane took control, a lot of religious groups dissolved. But the Golden Horizon was born out of their fanaticism and fear.
One day, they raided a center for helping people in Foundation custody to integrate back into society. The Golden Horizon killed everyone and set the place on fire rather than surrender. The news had two stories, one about innocents murdered by terrorists, and one about how the religiously oppressed people had finally fought back.
People protested. They started demanding the execution of the "demons". Anomalous people fled back through the blast doors of Foundation sites as fast as they had run out in celebration. The GOC was working overtime- gone from fighting the anomalous to loading them into trucks to take them to safety.
“Pro-Inhuman” protests sprouted up against the fires of hate and violence. Humans and Anomalous people married despite threats to their lives. Mekhane preached patience. Bumaro plead for peace.
The world's governments began to take sides in a deadly dance, while the United States was teetering back and forth like usual, the EU and United Kingdom had already taken the stance of Anomalous Rights, most African countries were split evenly, but Russia and China were resolute in opposition.
The hacktivist in the Serpents Hand revealed that China had been sending anomalous persons to prison camps while labeling them "culturally dangerous" to the government. Russia was still looking for ways to exploit their anomalous population but kept them imprisoned as well.
Someone threw a bottle at the police on some street in Beijing no one will ever know the name of. What started as a protest became a riot, and then it became a mob. They dragged anomalous children out into the streets and beat them to death. This was too much for even the Chinese, but they were silent for too long.
Mekhane stepped out of the Temple Of The Anvil in Greece. A ten-meter tall god, enraged with mankind. The world's governments were to immediately dissolve. The Foundation would expand to fill the void. To take control. Mankind was held by the sickness of evil and corruption, we had lost the ability to see the life around us as precious. Reason and logic must take precedence.
No one had any time to consider the demand. Russia and China launched their combined nuclear power at the Temple of The Anvil as soon as Mekhane revealed himself. There's no Russia or China anymore. Just a hole where people used to live.
With God's wrath came the storms. Black clouds spiraling out of the oceans, enveloping the world's landmasses within a few days. The leader of the Church arrived to speak to Mekhane in Greece along with the Foundation. But the god who once loved speaking to mankind was gone. In its place was a silent statue of gold and silver.
The month-long storm almost ended everything. Lightning crashed down from the sky in pulses that left humanity with a metal scar. When the sky had cleared, humanity came out of the rubble. About a quarter of mankind was turned into living machines.
After that… the Foundation took control of everything. The UIU was swallowed up and simply became a part of the now mega-institution, the GOC had been transformed into the Universal Security Coalition; the main core of peace and law enforcement. Foundation sites still exist, but as of now, there are 20 O-4 Councils, each running a part of the world and reporting back to the O-5 who still live, running the Foundation and working to keep the world calm and safe.
The Prime Unit of Mekhane settled down in Greece with his most devout followers. It has several bodies in different parts of the world that all operate as Mekhane and all function with the sects of the United Church gathered around them. The Maxwellians. The Cogwork Orthodoxy. The Foundationals.
The Maxwellians are the most common to find, those who wear the black coat of the clergy. Most of their brains are housed in machine bodies. Many with the golden hexagons at the corners of their eyes- denoting a connection to Mekhane. They have these shiny, black buildings scattered around every major city. The dying go in to either download into Mekhane's simulated plane of existence; The Ark Consciousness, or to take new, undying bodies.
The Cogwork Orthodoxy prefer to stay in Europe and Greece. Mostly people who were worshiping Mekhane as their overlord from the moment he stepped out of the Foundation site. They usually serve as Mekhane's missionaries in the more war-torn countries. Their immunity to radiation has made them useful in evacuating the survivors of the brief nuclear war against God.
The Foundationals are what I’m most used to. They suddenly arrived one day at the gates of Site-21. All of them were young defectors from the rest of the church and believed unity was the answer to rebuilding the Broken God. They're the ones that finally figured it out. The Foundation's database had been built with Mekhane as the core of it all. An emergency was called but it was determined that being in the database was no discomfort to him. The Foundationals keep regular communication with the god they're responsible for rebuilding.
In the end, it really was better. We're free of meaningless war. There's a bottomless pool of resources to build schools, farms, and hospitals. But better is still imperfect. That makes what's happening in Baltimore right now so frightening.
Actually… that's another story entirely.
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Technoapotheosis. This canon has been a many-month long work and so many hours have been put into plotting, replotting, writing, and lovingly crafting this world.
So many people have worked alongside me to both create and polish this world and get it ready to place in front of you. I could have honestly released it sooner than now, but I wanted to really take the time to grind out lore and details to make this the best it could be on release rather then trying to complete it once released. I even went as far as to make an entire Sarkic Tribe out of this canon for the rest of the SCP to enjoy then involved them in the canon as part of the "Sarkic Expansion" that covers the other half and in my opinion darker side of the canons premise.
The idea I had when I first started this was to create "Cyberpunk SCP". It was heavily inspired by William Gibson, Jeff Somers, >OBSERVER (A cyberpunk game) and many other sources. The base idea of it was to create a world where Mekhane was brought back when the world was in crisis and what would naturally follow. It does indeed take influences from "Broken Masquerade" as this world lives in a Lifted Veil state of the future where the anomalous is not only known- but is the norm.
The United Church- formerly the Broken Church (The followers of Mekhane.) have replaced most of the worlds previous religions. Those that still follow them are not persecuted, most other religions have simply become the minority in favor of the progress and advancement Mekhane represented.
Technology is now life. A majority of the world's population has augments, prosthetics, some even have completely new bodies. Most of the old Foundation personnel have "Downloaded"- leaving their old bodies behind in favor of new, sometimes even the best ones made by Mekhane himself.
The world seems almost idyllic, but hides horrific and dark secrets.
Corperations owned by Marshall, Carter and Dark control the world now- staying within the publics favor on the outside while employing groups of highly augmented shadow mercenaries to jack into peoples very souls for information.
Unrest within the United Church threatens the fragile balance of power in this world now full of power.
Though now much of the Foundation is in the light, the deepest reaches are still the darkest and act in complete obscurity.
In addition to providing a full, working world to create in- I have developed the Sarkic Expansion with the help of Metaphysician. This set of plotlines highlight a more natural and wild side of a otherwise mechanized world. Its central themes are balance, survival and rebirth. Showing this high-tech world through the eyes of those who see it as death rather then ascendance.
The Sarkic Expansion dissolves the negative associations the main lore grants and shows the lives of a complex and diverse group of people that are struggling to survive in a world that has declared even the natural to be obsolete.
Theres a lot here and I wanted people who enjoy the concept to be able to create in each area of it. Thats why I've worked to create in every area- to give you all a view into everything you have to choose. I really hope you enjoy this, I've put a lot of love into making it the best I can and it's grown far beyond what I'd intended and into something new entirely.
-Dr.Warpstar
As of now, you can add in GOI I don't list here as long as you create work for them. I don't want people coming in and dropping a massive lore for a ton of groups then not creating anything for it and leaving others with their work.
MC&D: Marshall, Carter and Dark have surprisingly gained a lot more power from all this. The Storm ended up taking out a lot of their enemies and even though they've been exposed as a powerful Neo-Sarkic group, nothing can currently be done about them as they have worked to keep many economies functioning and are even tied into several Mekhanite chains. The change has only seen them drive their roots deeper and they've become an infection that will likely never be cured.
GOC, Now the GSC: The Global Security Coalition keeps security among the worlds nations. Now working alongside their old enemies, they protect and serve the people of the world, both anomalous and non-anomalous. They are held to a tight ethics policy and dissent is uncommon with high wages and comfortable living. The GSC serves as the federal level of law enforcement with local forces trained by them but being made up of local individual police and social workers.
Golden Horizon: Many of the worlds religious groups merged into the Golden Horizon. These religious devout have no love for Mekhane or groups that support him. Usually hostile to augmented humans and the anomalous, they often preach a toxic rhetoric that all augmented and non-human life is evil or demonic and many extreme sects seek to take as many lives as possible through acts of terrorisim. The GSC and Foundation have taken a zero-tolerance policy against these groups and campaigns to eradicate sects of deadly members have been adequate in keeping much of their damage contained.