The Genesis Collapse

he **Genesis Collapse** was the apocalypseーand total annihilationーof the planet Genesis, which eventually led to the destruction of the rest of the Hollow Star System. It is believed to be caused by the Goliath, a supposedly God-like (sometimes considered fully a deity) entity. However, the total loss of the Genesse people were not lost, for a similar God-like being known only as Saint Genevieve came to deliver what survivors she could into a healthy, safe world. This led to a mass exodus from Genesis to several other planets, such as Neo and Belogvardeyski. This event took place roughly seven to eight *centuries* prior to the events of the main narrative.

## Genesis in its Prime

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A twin-planet to Neo, Genesis was a moderately advanced planet in relation to technology, having still been in the early stages of extraterrestrial discovery and communication, which was not common knowledge among its citizens. As well as that, it did have a thriving community of Undanes that existed in the outskirts of Mundane society. Magic lived in the shadows, while science was becoming a force of great power.

## Theories

### First Paroxysm Theory

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Specialists, particularly on Kha'on in a small, devoted sect, theorize that the Genesis Collapse is involved with what is being deemed the Paroxysm Phenomena. Some have suggested that this was the first event that showed the same elements, based off of what survivors of the event had wrote on the subject. This research was headed by Doctor Pandora Anach'k, albeit even other specialists did not seem to entirely have faith in her theory, due to the severity of what happened to Genesis, compared to the relatively minor anomalies. That, helped by the fact that nobody has ever managed to reach Hollow Star successfully to confirm or deny any symptoms, eventually led to the crumbling of Doctor Pandora's career, due to her fanatic devotion to a theory among colleagues who believed solely in detached analysis, and eventually a disappearance.

However, Commanding Priest Dmitri Ivanov of Belogvardeyski discovered her research several centuries after her disappearance and began to study it in his own time, as he led the Holy Order of Saint Genevieve, a reactive group of warrior-priests and priestesses who sought to combat and "banish" Paroxysms from their environs to prevent as much tragedy as possible.

## Modern Genesis

It has been roughly seven or eight centuries since the collapse. Considered dead and utterly annihilated by all, especially its descendents, this is not entirely the truth. While it is true that the planet, and its surrounding star system, were annihilated and unable to be saved, even centuries after the fact, it is far from being an empty space.

## Parties Involved

### Doctor Weber

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A promising xenobiologist with a morbid, potentially cruel, fascination with the potentials of extraterrestrial bodies.

### Anna Cho

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A cut-throat journalist unafraid of looking in the murkiest corners of her world, if it will get her the best story. Morally ambiguous and self-serving, Cho gets herself in too deep.

### Vee Beaumont

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An eccentric who spends her days living on the streets, using depressants to escape the grim reality of a past she refuses to talk about, who gets mixed up with Cho's independent investigations. Only to find that sometimes, the past doesn't stay in the past.

### Saint Genevieve

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St. Genevieve is the hallowed hero, likened to a servant of God or otherwise holy being, who arose miraculously to "open the sky" and deliver what survivors she could, Undane and Mundane alike, from Genesis and into safe territory. She did not leave them among one planet, instead spreading them across the Bright Star system. Among these divisions, she supposedly gave one individual among each a "blessing" that encouraged them to arise into leadership and guide their people through new and alien terrain. Notably, this would lead to the Neoni Empire, the first Umushi and the creation of the Zweikin.