User:Nemrod Centauri/ARKANGEL Corporation: Thellos' lore

"[MEMORY]=[RESTORED]=[It was dark...I've been [REDACTED] about things lately... Oh, right. I'm just a [DEAD] man in a metal corpse..." ~Prometheus upon being awoken                 (thinking)

[COLONIZATION]

New Centauri started out as a colony, named Las Selanos, after Richard Selanos, a well known business man, a hated Tiberian. Not much is known of the colonial era of Thellos, besides that the ARKANGEL Corporation had taken extreme interest in it since discovery. In weeks, over 74 research stations dotted the area around the small island city of Las Selanos.

[THE DISASTER]

New Centauri is the main continent on Thellos, being home to around 83 thousand people. Over time, a growing city became known as Erebus City, a place were fortunes could be made, or lost in the blink of an eye. This place became a hub for activity in 3234, when everything seemed to be going as grand as ever. Then, construction workers on the outer edge of the main island, Tepanos,(Teph-ahn-ose) were changed forever, as machinery was overloaded by the sheer power of red tiberium. These small revolts became frequent enough for people to carry guns everywhere they went, even on the lonesome road of the tiberium wasteland. Then suddenly, in the year 3237 on New Years Day, a tiberium bomb the size of a freighter exploded over New Centauri, condemning her to a thousand years of silence. However, on that fateful day when the fires of Hell rained down upon the continent, the ARKANGEL Corporation sealed its facilities forever, locking away the secrets they contained. When the time came to open the doors and see what Hell awaited them outside, the Corporate forces were weak, their immune systems destroyed by the cryogenic preservation process. In the years that followed, they relocated old, intact facilities only to find them either in ruins, or on backup power. One such facility still broadcasts the last recorded message on the radio, a cry for help from a dying AI, going insane from no longer receiving orders, making flaws in it's own logic. When the Corporation retook facilities, they saw the last 2 AIs alive, Prometheus and Ichor, had survived only by rebuilding Erebus City, and it's power grid. Ichor's core died out then, due to stress, but was repaired later. Prometheus became somewhat self-aware, taking control over the Corporation so no more disasters could happen.

[EREBUS CITY, BEGIN AGAIN]

Erebus City came to be inhabited by multiple factions, with a truce keeping the sides in check. Civilians ran the city's government, but the dominant factions held control over most of the region. The city's residents have reported the finding of ancient, working data pads around the area, claiming they are from a conspiracy to hide ruins of Centauri's past. People who go out into the wastes using this theory have become known as tomb raiders, as many believe the dead lie in the tiberium wasteland. Erebus City prospered until the planet's star, Delsa, went into a supernova around 7 million years later.

[TIMELINE]

2020:HEAD DIRECTOR VIKTOR LEDGER DEATH, TIBERIUM WAS THE CAUSE 2023:TIBERIUM INFESTATION REACHES SEVERE LEVELS IN ALL THE PLATO SYSTEM 2028-2128:TIBERIUM SEES USE AS POWER SOURCE AS CLEAN ENERGY IN REACTORS 2130:CORPORATE UNIVERSAL PORTAL BEGINS CONSTRUCTION 2160:CORPORATE PORTAL FINISHED, FIRST CONTACT WITH MAIN UNIVERSE 2200:HEAD DIRECTOR "NEMROD" ELECTED 2230:FIRETEAM "FEDS" SENT TO INVESTIGATE AREAS AROUND EREBUS CITY. MEMBERS:LT.GREGORY SANCHEZ/CAPTAIN ASHLEY FANE/SERGEANT JACOB QUARTZ/PRIVATE CARTER AMORREZ 3237:TIBERIUM BOMB DISASTER. WASTELAND IS CREATED BY THE EXPLOSION. 3238:FIRETEAM "FEDS", ALONG WITH ALL AC ARE PUT INTO CRYOSLEEP. SANCHEZ CONSIDERED MIA. 4120:TIBERIUM WASTELAND UNABLE TO SUSTAIN LIFE 4220:CORPORATION RETAKES FACILITIES