Camp Antonia

**Camp Antonia** is a side-story about the brainwashing experiment that took place in Omega before the events of The Vesuvian Conflict.

## Part I: The Sins of the Runehartz Clan

Anastacia begins the experiments in Camp Antonia. She brainwashes a large group of Wraithan immigrants in order to make them forget their past lives, and she plants memories of simpler lives in Omega. She lets the people go free, and carry out their simple existence.

Once an individual gets sick, they "seemingly" die. Anastacia and her team recover the body, and then using a mysterious serum developed by The Dark Man (disguised as Professor Farnsworth) they awaken them from a false death. They then drain the remaining life force and feed it into a large machine. Anastacia tells her siblings that when an individual dies, the Livaseer that the Authority assigned to Omega can feel the death. If it seems they die of natural causes, then that is what she will feel. This false death serum was given to everyone in Camp Antonia, so that the Runehartz Clan had a vale to operate under. The Livaseer would think the individual died of natural causes, but in actuality, they had a little bit of life left that would be fed into the OMEGA Experiment machine. This machine would fuel the lives of the Vigilant Order for as long as time would allow.

Vesuvius Slade is sent on behalf of Anima to assess the experiment. He believes they are not producing enough life force. He disparages Anastacia's work and embarrasses her, causing her to flee with Android 13 to Wraith. On Wraith, she is pursued by an assassin. She and Ember go into hiding, and end up spending time on Fierě with Delightful Fancy. Delightful, directly disobeying the orders of Anima by hiding her, is killed by a group of adventurers. Anastacia is forced to leave Ember and escape the planet.

She goes back to Wraith and hides in Sheraton.

## Part II: Low Men in Red Coats

Anastacia develops logs detailing the time she spent in Omega. She works alongside the Archduke for sometime, and then eventually retires from magic altogether. Venetia Runehartz, the leader of the Runehartz clan, eventually tracks her down and convinces her to come back to Omega.

She arrives on Omega shortly after Animus is defeated. Anima is enraged and demands that Anastacia finds a way to bring her son back to life fully. Anastacia ends up overloading the life force machine and destroying all of the life force they'd collected. Her family forgives her, but Anima does not. She announces that she will no longer cover for her experiments on Omega, and that her family is on their own.

Anastacia's family begins to lose faith in her, and they force her to leave Camp Antonia. They are not angry with her, but feel she will be better suited (and safer) running things from a place of seclusion. She meets with Goemon Von Shaft, and he allows her to continue her work beneath the city of Lyonus. Behind her back, the other Runehartz members rebuild the life force machine for the Nefarious Seven. Ember arrives on Omega looking for Anastacia, and learns what the Runehartz clan is doing. They destroy her and keep her return from Anastacia.

## Part III: End of an Era

Anastacia continues to run the show from her hidden crypt in Castle Lyonus. Goemon Von Shaft is still in power, Ana controls him in the saw that she controlled Argo Tremax. She keeps him from communicating to The Authority about the planet falling apart, and she continues her experiments to find the secret to immortality.

An apparition appears to her in the night in the form of Dimitri Runehartz. He professes his love to her, and how he yearns for her in the afterlife. Anastacia has a meltdown, and her loneliness culminates. Ember Youngblood appears. She implores Anastacia to give up on her plot, and join those she loves in the afterlife. She tells her that her family killed her Android form, so they can not be together in life in any way ever again. She then tells her that Alvera is on Ka with them. Anastacia, not knowing Alvera is actually still alive, succumbs to the guilt for her daughter's death and pledges to stop her family and the Nefarious Seven.

Anastacia goes after her family members on Omega and kills them one-by-one. In the end, she defeats Venetia Runehartz (as seen in Burn Together). She lets the Omega terminal count down to zero. Without hope, without any promise of clearing her name of all of the terrible pain she has caused, she decides to die on Omega. She closes her eyes, and the planet implodes around her. She whispers an apology to her daughter Alvera, and then she ceases to exist.