Seraphita Polaris/Background

## Background

### Fifth World War Context

In the aftermaths of the Estrellian Genocide in ad 2914, the Fifth World War breaks out in ad 2919. The Alliance Union develops a Defence Force department, a military branch of the organisation. The Defence Force decided to spend a lot of resources and invest in a lot of technologies to face the war on their front. Technologies that quickly link up planets was established and many others projects came to be. The Polaris project was in pre-production, as Eldridge finally gained access to Artifice technology.

The Polaris Project is said to have been the most ambitious one, taking the longest amount of time and being the most expensive in R&D. A lot of technologies invented within the project were eventually integrated in the Defence Force.

### Project Polaris

Project Polaris began in ad 2922, with the lead project engineer Grace Polaris and her assistant Hana Polaris, who both were siblings. The Artifice development went smoothly despite the gigantic amount of research and development needed to make the Artifice Core operational. Grace Polaris, however became gravely ill and bedridden during the project. She was so dedicated that she ended up doing remote work from her hospital bed, giving detailed explanations and instructions to her team. She was the lead engineer of the Core, which is the central part of an Artifice.

The Artifice was envisioned to be as powerful as several armies together at maximum potential, they developed a unique Ether that would support this idea.

The team arrived to a point where they needed to give the Artifice a physical appearance in 2929, and decided to make it look like Grace Polaris as a thanks for her dedication. Grace was not aware of the decisions, as she gave free reigns to the appearance, and sadly passed away right before the team were to announce and showcase a preview build of the Artifice to Grace. This event sent Hana Polaris, her younger sister, into severe depression and immense grief, but continued to work on the project regardless, for her sister's sake. The team decided that the Artifice would be named Seraphita Polaris, bearing the sisters' last name, and Seraphita for being Grace's little angel. In the end, the team noticed that the appearance of Seraphita was so good that she could probably be a legitimate Polaris sister if nobody knew about the project.

Seraphita has had a first startup in ad 2986, in order to test the Core out and how the team needed to interpret and use data between their computers and the Core. The project was nearing completion and Seraphita was turned off to make the final touches. Hana Polaris quit the project and her lead engineer position so she could take the time to finally grieve over the loss of her sister and move onto something else, as she declared that Seraphita reminds her of Grace. By quitting she knew that she would not be able to see Seraphita grow as a person and didn't mind.

### Starfall

Seraphita was finally turned on a couple of months prior to her enrolment in the Starfall Foundation. The Board of Directors got wind of the project, and wanted to have Seraphita on their sides so she could serve Starfall as they noticed that Eldridge were not using her for years, taking dust in her pod for almost a century.

She was transferred to Aeios, where Starfall is located and was taken in charge by engineers there. She unfortunately was not socially or combat trained, but the social aspect could already be taken on before the school opens its exams entry. They planned for her to get into the Academy, where she would be able to socialise, learn combat skills and work her Ether out. She eventually got in without major hurdles, but notified the HQ that she has a hard time controlling her Ether, which is kind of expected for teenagers when they first trigger their own. Seraphita was put into the Elite division as Starfall HQ announced that she may potentially have the most powerful Ether, but needs to train it to cover up her lack of prowess.