Fortune City (storyline)

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Fortune City’s history is one as legendary as ancient Greece on Earth. A vast and magnificent metropolis, it was once a beacon of commerce and luxurious living for the people of Delta V. The most successful businessmen and women had suites within the city and even labor foremen and management crews for Baelius’ mining operations could afford housing in Fortune City. For a time, it was good, and people lived in prosperity and comfort without fear of their world collapsing in around them.

Ironically, that’s exactly what happened.

Before the War, it was not evident to any of those working for Baelius and Interstellar Benchmarks that there were dark plots unfolding beneath their noses. When Baelius’ “Efficiency Solution” entered its first phases, many of the most prosperous heads of mining operations and all the board members living within the city limits (which was all of them, as per the contract Baelius conned them into signing) mysteriously disappeared in one night. What happened next no one ever would have expected and the results were devastating.

In preparation for the The Uprising—a contingency that Baelius had prepared for—a wall had been built around Fortune City and also within to cordon off the area that would become Baelius’ Citadel. These walls were fashioned out of a Varium alloy and combined with complex machinery that could be manipulated by Baelius’ finest Tech Mages. The catch? They were built beneath the very city they were meant to protect, right under the feet of the citizens of that vast burg. When the time came, these walls erupted from beneath the soil and concrete and surged skyward, destroying whole sections of the city as they rose. Ingenious machines beneath the sprawling streets lowered whole city blocks beneath surface level, killing thousands of innocent people and creating a subterranean slum in the process. Within days the Tech Mages had manipulated the Varium alloy and machines to construct a shelf over top of the ruined city below. In no time, Baelius had destroyed the inner sanctum of Fortune City and created a fortress around his Tower.

The sections that dropped beneath the surface were home to many hulking skyscrapers before the transformation of the city took place. Though some toppled or crumpled in on themselves during the transformation, many remained standing as giant, subterranean struts that shouldered the new city above.

What was once a burgeoning hub of commerce and the epicenter of Delta V’s brief golden age, was now a bleak slum filled with slighted survivors trying desperately to make it beneath the dark, metal sky Baelius had wrought on them.

Meanwhile, on the surface, Fortune City’s transformation was complete. Though the outer sections still remained intact, the wall that had sprung up around its perimeter reduced the glam of the once beautiful city substantially. It now had the appearance of a prison or a fortress, which, in truth, was exactly what it had become.

During the War, Fortune City was the last location on the map to be invaded by The Uprising. Oz, The Lawman, and London Kajiura, the commander who led the Hoverbike divisions, worked in tandem to assault the city from all sides. In the meantime, another army was preparing a devastating strike from within.

The subterranean sectors now known as Old Fortune City yielded a fierce amalgam of saboteurs and computer hackers coming from backgrounds like demolition, engineering, and software development. These vengeful people rose up from their underground world and wreaked havoc on Baelius’ city defenses. While Oz and The Uprising attacked from without, the downtrodden denizens of Old Fortune City drove the knife deep from within. It was this unexpected resistance that made it possible to overrun The Citadel’s defenses in mere days.

When the warring forces were banished, many of the insurgents from Old Fortune City were exiled but some remained and slinked back beneath to their underground homes in hopes of avoiding reprisal. Many of them did escape punishment, hiding in safe-houses from Baelius’ Shadow Guard who now act to prevent outsiders from entering Old Fortune City and also to keep its unruly inhabitants beneath the surface.

In the time after the War, much development has taken place in Old Fortune City. A railway spirals up the outer sections of the fallen metropolis and there is an ingenious artificial lighting system designed to replicate the passing of day and night. Individual homes have the means to grow their own produce in special arboretums; water treatment happens on a very efficient scale, as well, preventing the spread of disease in the dank underworld. Nevertheless, it is still a dark and sorrowful prison and the Citadel above clatters with the steady beat of androids marching in terrible unison, on patrol in Baelius’ mighty fortress.

On the surface, post-War Fortune City is desperately trying to return to the days when it was a beacon of prosperity for the people of Delta V. Those days are over, though, and attempts to bring them back are wasted. It is now a vice-ridden, clotted circulatory system through which flows a cold mix of malice and greed with a touch of abject fear. Muggers, murderers, and crime lords run the city now and Baelius’ Administrators and Shadow Guard aren’t far removed from any of these groups. To go to Fortune City is asking for trouble. Of course, for some, trouble is their favorite meal on the menu. Bon apetit.



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Storyline
The Prologue
The Classes
MercenaryBounty HunterTech MageBlood MageTactical MercenaryCyber Hunter
The War
The LegionThe Exiles
Character Bios
TitanNightwraithBigTunaThaddeusAlydriah DescarlMirvTalia
UlyssesSelinaThe LawmanCadenOzHankThe Armor Hazard
The Imperial Tech MageCinderellaMechachillidsThe Slayer
Locations
Central StationJumernaFortune CityThe BazaarThe BioDomeOld Fortune City