Aberrant World Lore

**Aberrant** is a planet located in the Sirius-Arc galaxy. With a radius of 3,270 Kilometers, it is large enough to hold lifeforms and keep a (mostly) stable surface and ecosystem. **Aberrant** has drinkable water, breathable air, and mostly tolerable temperatures. It is home to hundreds of lifeforms, from lesser creatures such as livestock and undead, to more advanced lifeforms, created through rapidly induced evolutionary steps. It is orbited by the inhabitated moon known as Chorus

From an outside perspective the species and subspecies of the planet are constantly shifting and changing, signaling the mysterious unstable nature of this world.

To it's more knowlegable, and well informed inhabitants however, the fluctuating nature of this planet is no mystery.

Any one of them would credit it to the aftermath of the **Aberration**

## The Aberration

**Aberrant** was once a medium sized planet, known as **Terrian** by it's natural citizens, with a small, inhabited moon, by the name of **Chorus** within it's orbit. **Terrian** at the time was the most technologically advanced planet within it's solar system, inhabited primarily by humans, it had conquered space travel hundreds of years ago, and as of the year 1982, by their calendars, they had begun chasing the idea of multi-dimensional travel with reckless abandon, within their capital city of Fallespont

The year was 1993 when the project reared it's final result, while communication with other dimensions had been achieved many times by this point, nobody on either side had attempted travel, until the 18th day upon the 6th month of the calendar year, when a scholar by the name of Cambire Sheldrake, attempted to finally tear asunder the barrier between the Terrian plane, and a neighbouring plane of fire known only as The Depths.

The experiment, although well researched, went cataclysmically wrong before one could even blink, the massive amounts of energy pouring out of this extra terrestrial rift, crippled any form of connection into the portal, and doubled back, thrusting unknown cosmic power into the geo-thermal circuits that had been powering the experiment, shaking the centuries old bore cables loose from their housing within Terrian's core, pouring a damning alien energy into the planet's very soul. Although barely a footnote in the tale of this incident, the horrendous cosmic fallout of this experiment wiped **Fallespont** cleanly off the face of **Terrian** within a few minutes of the first alarm being raised.

## The Fallout

Even beyond the immediate effects of the blast and subsequent fallout, The **Aberration** event shook the global society of **Terrian** to an unprecedented level. In the coming days the citizens of the world would notice all advanced electronic circuits being decayed by a mysterious purple and blue mold of sorts. Cut off from all global channels, and most advanced methods of transportation, the world began to regress back to smaller colonies. Walled off towns, gated communities, secluded hillside villages, all made from the same shared fears. All trust of outsiders was lost, with no forms of communication most communities had no trust of anyone outside of their own group, as they had no idea what terrible dangers or intentions any invading forces may have towards them. The bordered cities eventually fell into rationing stages, with riots following soon after. The smaller communities held out a bit better, but most of them didn't have the resources to survive entirely on their own in this new world.

**Terrian's** society had been obliterated by it's own hubris and fear, and out of it's ashes came a horrendous deviation from the near-utopia that had previously existed, a brand new world.

An Aberrant World.

## The Mutations

Ever the merciless beast, it seemed that **Aberrant** wasn't done beating down it's remaining survivors. The remaining scientists holed up in the few cities that had stood strong, began noticing a form of ionising radiation leaking out of the very core of the planet, a reading that was increasing steadily by every approaching day. The readings were alien, but familiar.

Radiation detection devices exploit the natural process of ionization to detect and measure radiation. These devices house a stable gas within their chamber. When exposed to radioactive particles, this gas ionizes. This process is capable of detecting the three known ionising types of radiation, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma rays.

However, this new form of radiation, in it's most concentrated leaks, was noted to entirely mutate the gas past an ionisation stage, rapidly splitting and transforming it into new unrecognisable componds. Unstable gasses somehow new to the periodic table. The scientific minds of Aberrant that observed this phenomenon were at a complete loss, unstable change at this rate could be beyond catastrophic if it hit the planet at a large scale, and with the growth observed in the readings, it seemed that catastrophe was not far off.

It was the seventh month of **1 AAE**, *(After Aberration Event)* when the first human mutation was officially observed, a child, had been born within a coastal city with flippers. Not simply webbed fingers or toes, full, amphibious flippers. Within four months the entire youth population of the town was showing signs of aquatic mutation, and within 2 years the whole community had to move underwater as their gills grew in.

The mutations, of course, didn't stop there, while it was observed in humans for the first time within that sample group, many other species of flora and fauna had begun rapid onset mutations and changes, threatening every status quo that had been formed by the food web before the **Aberration**. Much like in humans, the newborn and young of these species showed signs of mutation first, possibly a sign of the **Aberrant** energy highjacking the normal growth and development of each species, twisting them into horrible reflections of their environments, giving them the tools that their hardships deemed necessary.

The **Aberration** event had twisted the world into a cruel parody of what it once was, prey became predator, predator became outpaced and left for dead, the arms race of nature had begun all over again, and humans weren't going to be winning this time...