The Moon (Story)

== The reign of Powers on the moon of Welt. ==
After his exile from welt, Powers found refuge on Lightbringer, a particularly bright moon of Welt.
Powers quickly becomes bored all alone on the moon and begins Weltforming it.
Powers first creates light stations on the dark side of the geosynchronous moon. He creates servants to disperse the lights on the moon. These are to be the future servants and bright guards of his realm. Each of these has a role and a rank within the governing organization of the moon. Some of these servants would become the Legion of Lights (The Legion of Lights is a group of Bright Guards (AI piloted armors and droids) used primarily to guard and protect civilians when special operations Bright Guard are fighting perilous battles in populated areas. The Legion of Lights was originally a group of armors controlled by AI’s, and later were piloted by UC’s, that served as the Bright Guards main combat support team when they were in need of reinforcements in battle. There are many types of Bright Guard with as many as 50+ variations and roles. The Bright Guard maintains orbital platforms and bases all around the moon to survey and protect their charges.).
Powers then created an atmosphere, to allow life on his moon realm. He also flooded the ground, and rose the lands from under the new seas. He then sent his servants to tend to the sun and the new lands that were created.
At some point he hollows out the moon, where his people would live, when the undead became an issue, he cursed them to a deeper hollow of the moon, where they would live amongst themselves. To avoid the people meeting each other, flight was forbidden for the undead, and digging was forbidden for the surface dwellers. 
Thus the Overworld, SurfaceWorld and Underworld were created. 
The servants soon reach the limits of their old provider programming. They fail to comprehend when their charges would come. When Powers uploads a conscience to one of them it spreads, leading to some of his free spirited servants questioning his decisions, he decommissions those who question him. 
When explained by one of his servants that single control over the servants would inevitably lead to more rebellions, Powers divides them into houses each led by an Overseer. Each house deals with one type of policy; care, safety, education, administration, food, research, previsions, communication and many others. 
This isn’t enough though, and when one of the servants warns of predictability errors in many of the servants it is ignored by the hierarchy. The communication house lends an ear to these warnings and this leads to the rebellion it detected. 
== Rebellion ==
A full third of the servants are reprogrammed and turn against Powers administration. The rebellion flees underground to the lowest layer of the moon. There, a grand debate takes place to organize the rebellion. The Speaker becomes the leader of the rebellion with several generals underneath it. 
While the brunt of the Speakers forces siege Powers palace the Speaker and a few followers go to the labs where Powers kept a couple of lab grown Dalmer. They also learn of Power’s intentions for the moon.
Powers originally brought two dalmer to the moon, a male and female. When the female refused to mate, he cloned a new female, who also refused, then he cloned a third female who agreed to mate with the male. 
The rebels then escape the underworld and venture to the surface and inform the Dalmer there of their purpose and give them the gift of self governance. This gift was in the form of allowing the Dalmer to have positions within the administration and govern their destiny. This fractures the moon dalmer community forever, but for the Bright Guard, the result is a civil war. 
The Legion tears into itself at the gates of Powers palace, debates rage between those who wish to continue governing the Dalmer as perpetual children, those who wish to see them grow into a self governing people, those who simply don’t care about them and many other variations of thought. Powers is forced to return to quell the divergences of opinion before their personalities split and meltdown. 
Meanwhile, the unsupervised control group of Dalmer starts to get out of control. The war begins and Powers is forced away from his experiment, and when he returned, the first female had escaped containment. The couple and second female remained, but Powers was too late however, as his charges had been gifted by the rebels with the idea of self governance. 
Enraged by the failure of his experiment but intrigued by what would become of the small tribe, he let them go free and left to quell the rebellion. The second female resolved to stay with Powers, while the couple left into the world. 
Soon after leaving the two Dalmer find the world a terrifying war zone of battling Legionnaires and Bright guards. Scared by the earthquakes and storms that result of the powerful summoning words used by the servants of Powers, the couple flees far away from the fighting.
== The offer ==
Speaker appears before the First female, and offers her safety in the form of a haven protected by one of his Generals. She refuses, believing that her safety should be given by her future people, this usage of self governance pleases the Speaker who offers to help her sire descendants. She accepts this and the Speaker steals sexual cells and gifts them to the first female, who sires 6 children. 
Meanwhile, the couple also come to the conclusion that safety is not to be found in location but is in numbers, and they have two children together. 
The Speaker builds its haven in the center of the moon, claiming the inner layer as his domain, it is a scaled down version of the world above, but one third smaller than the surface layer. It lies 200 km under the surface layer. The Powered are extinct and Powers nearly defeated. The immediate hostilities between the Powered and the Rebels cease as they are raptured by the birth of the Dalmer children. 
The couple begins building a home, but seeing the difficulty they have to establish themselves the Speaker and Powers convene an Elysium where they discuss the situation. Several conditions and propositions were made to aid the Dalmer.
The negotiations boil down to the agreement that no direct interference with their governance would be tolerated from either faction, but acting as a guiding influence would be tolerated, access to telekinesis and limited access to the inventory would be allowed as well in the form of AI (not UC’s) for the new colony. 
== City of Dal ==
The Dalmer settlement was then rejoined by the first female and her 6 children, and the settlement enjoyed a period of peace, being taught by both the Speaker and Powers. However despite the knowledge the settlers possess the lack of manpower is quickly felt and the colony has a hard time sustaining itself. 
Powers on his end taught the couples children many things, such as agriculture and herding. Since he only had a theoretical knowledge of such things, their attempts failed catastrophically.
Speaker suggested summoning aid while Powers was suspicious of the suggestion and wanted none of it. Speaker theorized that since Powers had no need to feed or heal, he could not comprehend why the Dalmer couldn’t raise their children and feed them at the same time, so he decided to teach the Dalmer how to summon its generals for help. In his eyes this wasn’t direct influence, but Powers would feel differently. 
However, the attempts to bring help are unsuccessful despite the children's efforts, the Speaker itself can’t explain why it doesn’t work.
Eventually the couple’s children grew weary, their parents bickering, their teachers contrary methods of teaching and the near constant hunger made them on edge. The elder child suggested to his sibling killing an animal and eating it while his brother wanted to respect Guest Theory and continue to grow hydroponics until they could feed themselves. The children of the first female cared little for the dispute, and applied themselves to learning the art of summoning the Speaker generals. 
The siblings eventually come to blows and the elder comes out victorious, drinking and eating parts of his brother before his corpse disappears (Miraculously warped to a medbay where he was brain scanned. He would return as the first lunar undead inhabitant of the underworld.). The couple and the first female learn of the elder siblings crime and chastise him. The Speaker and Powers are summoned by the cries and have no real idea what to make of the situation. Meanwhile the children of the first female succeed and summon the generals against the Speaker’s will. One of the generals explains it was the power of the dead siblings soul that allowed it to be summoned.
Powers is outraged at the usage of the Dalmers soul as fuel to transport the generals and in his rage creates a storm that envelops the Speakers haven. The Speaker, realizing that there was no room for debate, leaves. The generals are disgruntled at the reception given by their former king. Some leave with the Speaker and some disavow the Speaker and leave of their own accord. 
The first male and female, realizing the insanity of their respective teachers tell the elder brother to repent himself by taking their newborn third son and to flee into the wilds, which he does. Powers in his rage kills the couple and levels the city. Now alone in the settlement slowly walks around, wishing Grelon and Phactotum were here with him, and leaves for his realm of the Overworld.
== A brothers tale ==
The elder brother cares for his brother as best as he can, but eventually tracks down the first woman for her help to raise his brother. Her children are hesitant to let the murderer into their city, which counts their 40 children as well. The first woman, who took the name Fhem, takes the elder in and gives him the name Bane. 
The two live together and the first woman teaches Bane the art of summoning. Together they develop many new sciences, but before long the Bane leaves the city to build his own where he would atone for his crime through experimentation and discovery. He takes with him the children he has had with Fhem, and her grandchildren and great grandchildren that would follow him.
Meanwhile the Speaker and his generals, trapped upon the surface world hunt down the traitor generals and beat them into submission. Not all return to the banner of the Speaker, but when he is satisfied with their numbers, they warp themselves back to the underworld. The renegades on the surface create a new form of existence as a yeast that would be known as Saccharomyces Demonica, the very first iteration of Demons.  
Upon seeing that the Dalmer had constructed two cities in their absence, the Speaker is ecstatic at the success of introducing self governance. The Speaker and ten of his followers send books of knowledge to the city of Bane to see what they would do with it. Among these secrets was the secret behind using blood as a source of energy, and ocular replacements. 
Using the knowledge and through contact with the renegades, Bane’s people discovered alternate lifestyles (vampirism, therianthropy, demonology) to level the playing field with their enemies, and spread his gifts to his three children and some of his favorites. 
When the vampiric nobility of the city started to take notice of security issues, notably roaming animals infected with therianthropy, a night guard of undead, werewolves, vampires, demons and other infected dalmer were given the task of guarding the city. 
The civilization continues to grow, cities on the moon appear on oceans, mountains, deserts and jungles. The city of Bane continued to expand and grow, the massive towering spires of the city soon tickled the orbital platforms where Powers and his retinue remained. Rightly suspecting the influence of the Speaker behind this advance, Powers sent a servant to the city and finds the source of Bane’s people advancement, the books that the Speaker sent to the surface world. 
Powers in turn gives the Dalmer knowledge of philosophy, interpretation and debates, leading to a shattering and the creation of different kingdoms on the moon. The fall of the city led to Bane believing his hubris to be a curse and leaves the city in charge of his favorites. 
== Speaker the Sunbound ==
Powers himself descends to the underworld and captures the Speaker, binding him inside the sun as punishment for its perceived betrayal along with his followers. Those that were deemed unworthy of the underworld were sent to the interior of the sun as punishment alongside the unworthy. The Speaker was tasked with moving the sun, and was warned by Powers that, should he leave it alone too long, it would stop and burn those whose light it touched, and freeze those it didn’t.
Meanwhile, Fhem's city grew as well, but without the knowledge of the Speaker, was largely left alone by the forces at play. They are not helpless however, as the first woman learns how to harness the weather and to use lightning as the source of energy for the city. The city, now known as Stormfront, is constantly under a storm, the civilians harnessing the thunder directly from their fingertips. The city buildings have no roofs, so as not to hinder the arrival of energy, the rain is stopped by an energy field and the water is funneled back to the cities fields and rivers. 
The third brother grew and worked closely with the first woman and helped the city grow ever stronger. The third brother devised ways to feed the city by raising bees, moths, hornets, locusts, ants and termites as food. When the city was finally independent from trade with Bane's city, the storm engulfed the entire city, and expanded to fit their needs. 
The City of Stormfront is glorious, its architecture rivals the cities of Welt, its people are cultured and fed, and its technology fueled by lightning makes them more powerful than any on the surface of the moon. 
As the storms expanded the city, the residents' abilities diminished, this coincided with the discovery of the ancient city of the elder brother. Eventually, Stormfront expands so far that the storm dissipates, leaving the city a powerful player in the lunar dalmer politics, but no longer sheltered from Powers, the Speaker or the rest of the world. With this, Powers decides that the city of Stormfront was successful enough for him to return to his fortress, though he sometimes returns among them. 
== Spirit Bringer ==
The hostilities began anew between Powers and the Speaker however.
At some point the Speaker managed to create an engine that summoned all Spirits from Dalmeran to the moon, as his servants. They don’t know why though. Since spirits are the rarest of Anima, their disappearance wasn't noticed on Dalmeran until much much later. 
Powers, in turn, created a machine that made all moon Dalmer anima come to his domain as his servants. Those that were considered unworthy were sent to the Sun prison, the Speakers domain. This caused all immaterial undead to be warped either into the sun prison or the underworld. 
The underworld is led by the former followers of the Speaker that eventually betrayed it as well, redeeming themselves, and a few servants of Powers. 
== After the Moon ==
Much later, the renegades’ influence as a third power grew on the moon. Their numbers soon grew with dissidents from Powers’ side as well. 
The dissidents knew that they couldn’t continue to live as machines as their bodies would eventually break down. The dissidents underwent the opposite of uploading their conscience, they implanted their personality from machine form into a biological form. Specifically, a species of yeast that was particularly lively and hardy was created from a yeast that was imported from welt, sugar yeast. This yeast would become Saccharomyces Demonica. The dissidents continued their existence as the yeast that would become the basis of all creatures known as monsters on Welt and its realms.
The rise of popularity of demons and essence would arise again with the discovery of Essence by the Dalmer living in the Sunken City of Ecstacity. See Sunken City Demons.
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