The birth of the red earth

The birth of the red earth is the history of the unplaceable kingdom.
== Chapter 1: Red Star Science Complex ==
The Red Star science complex, situated on a hibernating whale north of Goggurum is attempting to bring widespread accessible warp technology via illegal interdimensional travel. The complex is constructed without apparent governmental permission. The portal experimentation opens up on a hostile world and the enemy come pouring out, killing nearly everyone there.
A Disproportionate response team is sent in to save what could be saved. They tear through the facility to find survivors, when they find them, the team and the survivors are all killed by the scientists without explanation.
The entire island is then warped out of the area. Some of the DR team return as zombies, and try to figure out what the heck is going on.
=== Episode 1: Knee camp ===
In the first episode, Knee Camp, the team continue to explore the island, they find that it is set with military bases, power plants, computer centers and geological anomalies. The teams exploration ends with them discovering the teleporter leading to the military hostile world, only to be overwhelmed by enemy forces. The team escape by jumping the entire island into a random portal.
=== Episode 2: Planetshore ===
In the second episode, Planetshore, the team has successfully teleported to the planet, another DR team learns of their location and reinforces them. They fight their way through installations, similar to those on the island, but warped and distorted from the Military hostile invasion and interwoven with beastly architecture. After defeating a general beast, the team discover the truth about their location: the island is seemingly floating in space.
=== Episode 3: Terror ===
The third episode, called Terror, begins after the two DR team fights its way through waves of militarized hostiles. Then a hidden doorway back to Welt opens for them, who will “bring the message back to our kin”. However, the teams have second thoughts and enter a deep crisis of faith concerning the ancestral Dalmer fear of space, and it is unknown what they do with it. 
== Chapter 2: Borders of Flame ==
=== Episode 1: Red starfall ===
Immediately following the events of Red Star Facility, with the fate of the zombie DRTs’ unknown. It appears that the facility reentered Welts orbit and despite the efforts of Teardropper and Wilhelm, crashed into the elected kingdom of Thamdoril.
=== Episode 2: The Diamond King ===
Those who survived the attack, fearing another alien invasion, have developed plans to build massive crafts which will carry the remaining survivors into the safety of Anhaendra. Once the ships are ready, the survivors prepare to evacuate. Unfortunately, Anhaendra is currently under rule of the Diamond King, fears that this mass evacuation is a clever form of invasion, and has placed a flame barrier all around Anhaendra’s border, preventing any ships from leaving. 
=== Episode 3: Thamdoril's apocalypse ===
The other races local to Thamdoril see the crash of the Red Star facility and the flame barrier as a sign of the apocalypse in their culture. They band together to battle the Dalmer survivors and the massacre is so great that the Diamond King deactivates the force field, allowing the remaining Dalmer to escape. While they escape, the Anhaendra Gearwalker Platoon is sent aboard the colony ship Yramidas to ascertain the military hostile presence covertly. And indeed the military hostile start to appear around the crater of the Red Star.
The platoon must then fight through the military hostile and the other race coalition into the city until they reach the crater, but there is no way to stop the invasion on that side. They then decide to step into the portal to try deactivating it from the other side, entering the military hostile world (which they believe must be somewhere on Welt).
=== Episode 4: Portaltown ===
After fighting through the military hostile on the other side, in a place that would later become Portal Town, the platoon reaches the location of the military hostile stronghold, called the Basin. They kill the general beast by firing rockets into its exposed brain. Its death causes mass disorganization, and the portal to Welt has been sealed. Now with the military hostile defeated, the Yramidas begins its exploration of this strange new land, and the Gearwalker Platoon joins with the others in an effort to rebuild and restore life in the elected kingdom of Thamdoril.
== Chapter 3: Red Rose Hexahedron ==
=== Episode 1: The Rupture ===
The Dalmer colonization of the red earth is going underway, they have refurbished portal town to be up to their standards However, after some months pass, a teleportation rupture takes place and loses containment, at which point the portal to Thamdoril is closed and the entire town is swept with an unnatural shockwave. This transforms most of the unprotected Dalmer personnel into zombies, and kills the others, while previously unknown other race forces invade.
=== Episode 2: The Card ===
Now faced with a zombie biohazard and the other race, the platoon does what it can to defend Portal town, the platoon meet with a squad of gearwalkers and they are charged with getting a transmission card containing a distress call to the main communications facility to call for reinforcements from orbit. As the gearwalkers progress through the advance bases leading to the facility, they learn that Colonial governor Drethror “Swanbread” Clanbell has survived, and are also en route to the communications facility to prevent any messages being sent in hope of containing the situation in Portal town for unknown reasons. The gearwalker squad is ambushed by the other race and nearly slaughtered in the facility lobby, and although the surviving gearwalkers recover the transmission card, they are too late to prevent the bulk of equipment at the communications facility being destroyed by Clanbell. However, the gearwalkers build a backup system, where the gearwalkers are confronted at acid gunpoint by Clanbell and given the choice of whether to obey orders to send for reinforcements, or accept Clanbell’s argument to keep Portal Town isolated until the exact nature of the invasion is understood, so as not to endanger Welt. The gearwalkers find Clanbell’s argument extremely sketchy, but obey nevertheless (Clanbell being their de facto military authority) and go to the Delta Labs to find Wallasson the chief of Portal Towns experimental science division.
=== Episode 3: The red rose ===
On the way to the Delta Labs, the gearwalkers are contacted by Daresouth “Plateauhead” Wallasson, who is clearly working on something suspicious. Wallasson then unsuccessfully attempts to persuade the gearwalkers that his work is worthwhile but communications are interrupted just before he tells them what he is working on exactly. The gearwalkers are then assaulted by toxic gases from the base's recycling facilities, possibly by Wallasson. 
Upon arriving at the Delta Labs, the gearwalkers learn of the details behind Wallasson’s experiments. The scientist is nowhere to be found, but they find he has produced an item known as the Red Rose Hexahedron. According to Clanbell, the Red Rose Hexahedron is a weapon created to defend against the other race. However this contradicts with Wallassons notes they find in his lab.
=== Episode 4: The stand ===
Hoping they will return to the front to deploy the weapon against the other race, Clanbell suddenly orders the gearwalkers to return the weapon to the town hall. Beginning to be fed up with Clanbell, the gearwalkers reluctantly agree, openly declining evacuation transport so as to see some action and to honor their fallen brothers (they are only five of the original twenty soldiers at this point).
When they do reach Clanbell, their demands for clarification are met with deaf ears, Clanbell shuts himself in his study, writes a letter, deploys the weapon and whispers “I knew it”. 
Twenty minutes later the gearwalkers break into the study, for further orders. Clanbell and the Red Rose Hexahedron are nowhere to be found. The letter indicates who Clanbell named for his succession, and thinly veiled hints to complete evacuation of Portal Town being a necessity.
== Chapter 4: Shattered Peace ==
After the events of the Red Rose Hexahedron, it becomes apparent that the gearwalkers had in fact given the order for reinforcements, who arrive by the newly activated portal rather than by Audacity. When the reinforcements arrive the other race is found to be gone without a trace. 
The colony of Portal Town attempts to begin anew by burning Portal Town down to the ground, rebuilding its structures, reinforcing its forward positions and exploring the lands.
New settlers arrive and researchers attempt to draw energy by constructing a Bellow Arsenal, in order to solve the colony’s energy crisis. 
The next dimensional invasion, sparked when Dalmer colonists dispatched a Gearwalker platoon who attacked the Portal town of the dimension dwellers, burned down the outpost, raiding the keep and leaving behind a smoking ruin smelling of flamethrower residue. The response from the Dwel (the name given to the military hostile world other race) was so extremely violent the Dalmer nearly abandoned the kingdom entirely aboard the Yramidas. 
However, in a rare case of actual diplomacy, the Dalmer sent the Dwel the heads of the Gearwalker team in a box in a last attempt to quell their aggressions. However they found the outpost deserted, as well as all the advanced positions they had entrenched to take Yramidas. The reason for this disappearance is still unknown, and the members of the Gearwalker team became revered as war heroes.
== Chapter 5: The Porcelain Dagger ==
After, the colonial governments decide to take measures against any possible future invasion, knowing that the powers of the Dwel still remained strong. The Dalmer refounded the management of the red earth colony completely and aimed at developing tools that would prevent dimensional invasions.
=== Episode 1: The Porcelain dagger ===
The scientists start working on a device known as the Porcelain Dagger that is intended to close invasion Dimensional Gates and stop possible invasions. The experiments are carried out in a secret research complex, with a stationed detachment of gearwalkers. The work seems to be going well but the Dwel creatures have their attention drawn towards the new research. A Gate opens in the heart of the complex and unnatural horrors pour out. The Porcelain Dagger performs superbly: the Gate is quickly closed and the invasion is stopped. Research continues more boldly.
A few months later, a ring of 7 Gates open and an even greater invasion begins. For one hour the Porcelain Dagger manage to close 6 of the Gates, but the Dwel army has become too numerous and too strong. The complex is overrun. Everyone is slain, or zombified. The last Gate remains open, manned and guarded by a Gatekeeper: a powerful, being that has the power to open Dimensional Gates and control them.
The colonial government, frantic that the Porcelain Dagger will be destroyed or used against humanity, orders all gearwalkers to the site at once. There they discover that there is much activity (howling, chanting, machine sounds) within the complex; the Gatekeeper is obviously working on something, and his work would soon reach some awful climax. They also realize that they would not be able to penetrate the heavily infested complex, despite the firepower and support they will have. After the failed recapture of Portal Town results in 80% casualties, the entire Red Earths population relocated to Yramidas and stayed on it until the Dwel finally disappeared once more, prompting the passing of the Airborne Security Act.
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