Celestial Cyber

Pre-Story

This chapter is dedicated to getting the reader up to speed on the world’s affairs, leading up to the main character. The true story starts at Chapter 1.

The world has changed dramatically since the discovery of "Infinity Generators". In the mid 2030s, a scientist trying to fix the world’s energy crisis developed a generator that constantly used a fraction of the energy it generated to spin a small wheel that produced additional energy. This additional energy is then added to the general energy tank (or GET) within the generator, which is later tapped to keep the wheel spinning. Over a period of an hour, the generator, starting with only a small amount of energy, will produce enough energy to fuel a neighborhood for a week.  

The discovery of such a generator made the scientific community exited, but a flaw was found in the generator. The generator, later named the Infinity Generator (InGen), would produce massive amounts of energy, but if the energy generated was not used at a fast enough rate, the generator would eventually overload. An explosion caused by the first InGen revealed this in a vastly destructive way, resulting in the deaths of many scientists. Scientists, very reluctant to give up a discovery with such potential, frantically worked to find a way to fix this.  

Eventually, in the late 2040s, a scientist and engineer worked together in hopes of fixing this flaw and found a way to make it so that the generator tapped into less energy from the GET as the energy levels in the GET increased. At first, the InGen would tap into half of the energy stored in the GET in order to keep the wheel spinning. The percentage that was tapped would drop until the GET was almost full and the rate of energy tapped equaled the rate the energy was produced. The InGen was also designed to slowly increase the percentage tapped if the energy in the GET was being used faster than it was filled, eventually recreating the equal rates seen when the GET was full.  

In the early 2050s, a new company, founded by a famous multi billionaire, Michal D. Lucif, and later named Lucif Inc., made an announcement that they would be hosting a competition that asked anyone to successfully make a working InGen that was half its original size (one InGen was about the size of a standard factory). The competition raged for about eight years, ending in the late 2050s when man exceeded Lucif Inc’s expectations and produced an InGen two fifths its original size.

Lucif Inc. soon became one of the most powerful companies in the world. They eventually obtained sole ownership of the InGen and all similar devices. With this, they produced InGens that would be built in cities and near large neighborhoods that would produce endless energy at a fraction of the cost. In the end, Lucif Inc. became a monopoly that controlled almost all energy consumptions. Michal D. Lucif became the wealthiest man in the entire world.

 At first, Lucif Inc. spread their wealth to multiple projects, including (but not limited to): 100% energy cars, hover technology (eventually leading to wheel-less cars, a.k.a flying cars), and most importantly, robots. Most of Lucif Inc.’s money went into trying to develop an InGen that could be held by the average man. At first, this seemed impossible, but when they separated the GET from the InGen and connected them via strong cables, they were able to develop an InGen the size of a basketball. This lead to an almost infinite realm of possibilities, but for some reason Lucif Inc. seemed to be fixed on a strange obsession with robots.

Lucif Inc. took the new, smaller InGen and placed it into a seven foot, basic robot that could only run and punch. After days of study, scientists noticed that the robot was nowhere near even three fourths energy level. The robot could run for centuries and never run out of energy unless the InGen was damaged. This discovery led to the creation of multiple robots, ranging from combat to helper robots used for almost any purpose.

After a short period of time, now between the late 2060s and early 2070s, a scientist developed a hypothesis that revolved around further uses for the energy produced in the robots. At first, people thought that this meant using the robots as walking batteries (for electronics like phones and computers that were still too small for implanting InGens), but the scientist had greater plans than that. By the mid 2070s, the first robot ever to have weapons powered by and loaded with energy from the InGen was created. The robot had a built in cannon that fired energy grenades produced within the cannon, fueled by the InGen. This opened ever more doors for the uses of the InGen.

Michal D. Lucif, now in his late sixties, decides to give the company to his only son, a forty year old man named Judas S. Lucif. Judas was a kind man just like his father. He gave money to many charities and funded dozens of searches for cures of many diseases. Not long after Judas obtained ownership of the company, the world witnessed the surprising, yet most likely inevitable WWIII, starting around 2082. Lucif Inc. robots were produced all around the world. Keeping track of the uses of all these robots was practically impossible. The east and west’s lust for power led to them declaring war on each other, which put Judas in a very tight squeeze, seeing as both sides were using his company’s technology. Lucky for Judas (but unlucky the Lucif Inc.), the company itself seemed to split in two, separating between east and west without approval from Judas. Judas, living somewhere in the middle of the U.S., never found out who took control of the eastern company.

When WWIII happened, Judas Lucif seemed to disappear. All of the western companies seemed to work as if nothing happened, but everyone knew something was wrong. Without questioning him, the world seemed to go back to its business with the war with almost everyone ignoring Judas’s lack of appearances. Robots continued to be developed and manufactured, this time the two sides were developing different models.

The only positive side of the war was the lack of human troops being deployed. Very near the beginning of WWIII, both sides discovered a way to transmit human motions to robots at vast distances. U.S. soldiers in D.C. could pilot robots fighting in Iraq. This led to a far more dangerous, but less hazardous war to fight, actually saving lives. The strangest part of the remote access piloting system (RAP system) was that it needed a crystal that looked like celestite, a fragile crystal thought in old times to be connected to heaven. Every combat robot in those days contained a RAP system that contained a specifically shaped piece of what was later called “rare celestite”.

Our story takes place in 2085 with a man named Matthew Yaneh. He works as a blueprint designer for a branch of Lucif Inc. somewhere on the eastern cost of the U.S. He has a wife named Jill and a twelve year old son named Luke. His wife works in public relations, acting as a person who knows the ins and outs of what the company is doing. She works in the same building as her husband, but her work hours are shorter so that she can go home to Luke. The chapter begins on the last day of Matthew’s normal life. He is told to go down to a lower level of the building so that he can watch a prototype robot he designed in action. Blueprint designers are asked to so do so that they can witness the glitches and flaws of their design first hand, should any appear.

Now that you have been brought up to speed, I hope that you are eager to discover Matthew’s story as he finds what the world he lives in has in store for him. You may be surprised at some of the events, but knows that all events are taking place far in the future, and are thus a figment of my imagination. I hope you enjoy “Celestial Cyber”!

            -Geoffrey Perrin