Brief History

#### **Industry Takeover**

The past century has seen the biggest growth in privatization the world has ever seen. Big companies were starting to takeover every sort of industry, pushing out small business and establishing their own, cheaper commerce for people to buy. In a few decades, every single industry and market were controlled by only a select few giant conglomerates. Over the span of a few years, the companies would increase the prices of their products every slightly as to not destroy the economy until they were getting 200x the profits they started off getting. At the year 2100, the few companies would have a combined net worth equal to 10x the combined GDP of every world country.

#### **The Theft of Kron**

At around the same time, a start-up company was starting to develop prototypes of interstellar spaceships that can travel to planets in our solar-systems in days time. The big companies took interest in these designs, and stole the company and their prototypes from the founder, Kron. Later in the story it is revealed that Kron was framed and sent to Prison Planet in order to cover up their scheme. He would then spend the rest of his life devising a plan to destroy the companies and take back his.

### **The Criminal Initiative**

A few years after the Theft of Kron, the companies would start the Criminal Initiative, a long and meticulous scheme in order to cripple world government economies and cause widespread crime and famine. They would first begin to fabricate false rumors between differing countries to cause widespread tension between the big world powers . They wanted to start a third world war, and distract the militaries who were going to fight each other and not be able to deal the crimewave happening back home.

After, the companies would skyrocket the prices of their products from every industry they owned, forcing everybody to pay the ridiculous price increase. Most couldn't, and this would spark a widespread depression that left many without a job and homeless. Governments would try to stop the companies from increasing their industry prices, but with the massive political influence the companies would have on the world powers, they had little choice but to deal with the price gouge.

Crime and riots would soon spread to all countries, with the governments being able to do little to combat it.

This was until one new start-up company showed up, offering salvation in this dire time. They proposed to the new governments that they would be able to boost their economy forever, and rid the world of the scum and degenerates who managed to get to the top during these past decades of turmoil. The new company presented a newly discovered planet found behind the planet Jupiter. It had enough light to grow plants and trees, and enough oxygen for humans to stay there. Their preposition was to send all the convicts there for them to live the rest of their days on this planet.

At first, all the governments disagreed, confused as to why they would send convicts to this forign planet and abandom them forever. The company then presented the rare mineral found called adamantite, which could be manufactured into fuel for space travel and an expensive component in much of the newer technology being developed. The company wanted the convicts to mine this precious mineral and export it back to earth. If this mineral were true, it would be 10 thousand times more valuable than gold.

The governments were still reluctant to take up the offer, but after some influence from the other companies, they agreed to the deal. They would sign a contract stating that all of their convicts are under jurisdiction of the prison companie, and not citizens of whatever country they were originally from. At first, there were mass protests and riots invovling this extremly radical change to the prison system in the world, but after mass violence was exerted on the government's people, they stopped protesting and accepted it.

Soon enough the prison company started to round up all the criminals from across the world, mixing them all up from all the different countries, and transporting them in a massive prison transport shuttle. The criminals were given proper supplies and technology so that they can start to setup camps and quarters for them. They were also given mining supplies to mine the crystals. Food and supplies were given, but there were soon sold and given to the criminals with the biggest crews and influence. New societies were formed on this new planet with became a radical idea of the societies back on earth. Violence was allowed, and crime became the way of life for them.

Back on Earth, with all of the criminals gone, society soon became worse than what it once was before. For people back home, crime and violence gave a sort of extreme excitement that people subconsciously craved, but could never do. People became depressed, and unhappy. Another crisis was made ontop of the previous poverty problem. In order the combat this, the companies started developing new addicting drugs that would help people feel happier again. Some even offered hallucinations that put people in this utopia with being able to do anything they wanted. The companies would actually make the criminals on the planet to also produce drugs on that planet, which the companies would send back to earth in to use on the people. This fact is not known, however, and the main storyline tries to find evidence and proof that these mysterious drug farms, do exist.