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Lilac Energy

In the late 21st century, Lilac City is known as the "City of Healing", a place to go to rebuild, where even the most lost cause can find hope. But Lilac City would never have even been an idea if it were not for two corporations of great minds. The name of one being synonymous with the city they built.

By the end of the 21st century, Lilac Energy has successfully reinvented green energy for the better for the future. Name a form of green energy, chances are that Lilac Energy has thought of it, developed some technology to harness it and has minds working around the clock to improve it for the future. The company was founded in 1951 in Kent, England with the goal of revolutionising the power production industry. To this end, Lilac was one of the first power companies in Europe to fully adopt nuclear power as a viable form of energy production and soon expanded into solar, wind and tidal power.

In 1974, however, hard times came, the Cold War's influence in Arabia had led to an energy crisis on the western front. Where most saw trouble, though, Lilac Energy saw an opportunity they'd likely never see the likes of again and they took it. Partnering up with a Japanese architecture firm called Aratahei, Lilac Energy proposed to the UK and Japanese governments to build offshore cities that would act as giant power stations harnessing every conceivable form of green energy. Scepticism was high, but after much deliberation, each company was given a grant to build these cities.

Construction of Lilac City and it's sister, Neo Sapporo, began in 1976 with the laying of their foundations, the first columns that would become Lilac City were laid 16 miles west of Lundy Isle in the Bristol Channel while Neo Sapporo was laid out in Sagami Bay. The construction took several years with many complications, but Lilac City was the first completed in 1979, producing power for the very first time as part of the 1980 new year. Lilac City's success in Britain and Neo Sapporo's success in Japan sparked a revolution around the world, and many countries began building their own power cities. By the 21st century, sixty one power cities of varying shapes and sizes had been constructed along the coastlines of the world, and the ones that already existed were getting bigger as technological development skyrocketed thanks to the near limitless supply of cheap green energy. The city was soon home to companies developing things once thought the realm of science fiction, this included Atmera Technological Innovators and Osiris Multinational. The greatest thing Lilac City would give to the world, in this time, was the Tron, the world's first MPC(Mass Produced Cyborg) model, developed by Atmera. A machine that looked human and could think like one, soon finding itself working alongside doctors, engineers, emergency services and scientists.

The calm would not last forever, unfortunately. Years of corruption began to take it's toll on society by the mid 21st century. Things took a turn for the worst after a massacre fractured the United States of America into a quadrat of different unions that all vied for control of their power cities. Tensions in Europe reached flashpoint in 2074 when London was plunged into civil war. London's collapse led to other European cities becoming destabilised and soon all of Europe was tearing itself apart at the seams. London falling into chaos also meant that funding being sent to Lilac City for an ambitious expansion was diverted, halting the construction altogether. Without vital construction completed, much of this expansion fell into ruin, becoming what is now known as the Outer Sect to the locals. Some of the expansion, however, was reclaimed by the peoples of Lilac City and rebuilt into the free district Mech-Town, and was fully refurbished after the GCWs through the "Mech-Town Grant", a massive sum of money and labour dedicated to making the area a cleaner, safer place to live.

After the GCWs, Lilac City was granted the status of a Free City, meaning that while it was part of the British Isles, it was entirely independent of the mainland. This helped the city thanks to it's pre GCW adoption of a new fiscal currency; the Unic, or Universally Acceptable Credit. Lilac City's prosperity skyrocketed once more and, by 2090, the city was a thriving metropolis with a population of approximately 22.3 million people and growing. And at the heart of it all, even after all these years, Lilac Energy, a humble corporation that began it's life as a small green energy company, has their main HQ and largest power station standing tall at the very centre of the city, a beating heart for the City of Healing.