Pandorium Timeline

All current *Pandorium* stories (*Solitude*, *HumN*, *Mercy's Garden*) are connected.

## Pre-Volitigital

### Division

The powers above all were born from a collaboration of compromise with society creating regulation for all, a free and open world that can thrive in an economy that was fair to all. This turned sour after generations became more indecisive, fueled by a world that was unsure of what they wanted despite the screaming cries and demands the world had bestowed.

Due delegation became ruthlessly in favour of bias, which caused an eruption in division. Government officials began to turn their backs on the people and focus on riches for the benefit of themselves, which increased division. It became less about the people and more about their own pride and enrichment.

### Influencers

The conglomerates often used their power for selfish gains and fake presence, becoming accustomed to life and survival, a game they had no capable knowledge of handling, and often resulted in behaviour that either was ignorantly positioned or willingly aggressed.

Influencers were held in high regard when there was a sense of heroism in the voices brave enough to speak out against evil. Soon it would turn into voices of platitudes, often born from riches themselves.

When society entrusted their loyalties to these rogue voices, the gravity of their danger was lessened, but blindly so was their willingness to depend on change as they were told vague sentiments by these influencers. However, these influencers’ reserved voices held less water as time had progressed.

More and more influencers through generations became entitled and compensation was demanded. Governments weren’t willing to fund nearly as much as influencers had wanted, so they began to neglect their day to day responsibilities, became divided in their words, reckless in their nature and more desirable to the sweet life in the clouds.

### Advocacy

While the world looked unharmed, everyone became socially engulfed in the digital age and grew tired of the people in power. The people lived and breathed vitriol they could almost never express in the real world. Most turned their back on the powerful in terms of respect and lived in division of one another. Damaged cultures and corrupt governments ran rampant.

They all could agree there was something wrong in the field of power, but could not decide on what it was. This forged them together, realising something needed to change. Their thirst for answers and closure lead them to indulging in trash talk TV. They would make it tradition to lift spirits through this cathartic medium.

### Lost

Some people weren’t brave to speak either online or offline and were doomed to silence in their own complacency. These were the divisions beyond division. There is no clear conclusion with the moderately unplaced. Ducking between indecisiveness and fear of non-inclusion, they are uncertain about their place in a life that they can easily be persuaded.

Their lack of independence was brought on by both extremes that looked down on people with intervention, cooperation and middle ground. These were solution makers that involved sacrificing something of either side to create a world that could work together. Alas, they were shunned by all and supplied no convenient use case in the world.

### Apocalypse

The world brought Volitigital upon themselves, leaving scorn across the digital age.

## Volitigital

### Xavier

One day, influencers ran into Xavier Rotom, who came from a working class family, the Rotoms. This supercharged his trauma-fueled mission to give back to those who suffered like him.

Sometime later, Xavier used government boards with his wits to buy real estate of Nostradore, an island off of Valanose's coast. He built the Coliseum to house a brand new world that would oppose current rulings and entice people to join this new order.

### Governments

Government power still exists despite being outlawed by Volitigital and there are several means to take down the killing games, putting in place regulations and taking control once again. It is unclear if their intentions are to learn from their past to make a better government or to bring back what they considered was normal for them through ignorant means.

Spies have been watching how Nostradore is formed while government insiders crowd-source and fund the construction. Xavier is able to develop planning for multiple purposes that aren’t advertised as conjoined with one another, which was what helped bypass security clearance and potential denial.

### Subjects

Xavier founded Rotom Corp and created Subject Placement to put people into four factions: Advocates, Playmates, Lost Subjects and Spies.

He offered refuge and a promise of a new world for the Advocates, ones who succumbed to Volitigital and wished to start fresh, knowing their catharsis. They got to cheer on the deaths of the influencers and the ungrateful conglomerates. They were Xavier’s Playmates.

He could also uncover an ulterior motive buried within the Lost Subjects’ subconscious through these games. Nevertheless, they were brought in for play testing. Spies are messenger pigeons for their governments back home, who wish to interrogate the island and terminate the killing games.