It was getting worse.
People were dying in the streets, mutated, shriveled, their screams unbearable. As of yet, the Government hadn’t done anything. ‘Stay inside’ and ‘Don’t worry, it’ll all be taken care of’ had gotten old really fast. The Japanese Province had started to make preparations many years ago to colonize Titan, but the population had dwindled too fast.
Now there was practically nothing. Most survivors of the war were gathered around the Central Eurasian Provinces, an area already ravaged by war for millennia, helpless and afraid. Only small towns- well, not even- villages dotted the Old Romanian Province, where once, many centuries ago, great kingdoms flourished. Today they are rubble.
There was a light, though.
The ESO said we didn’t have to leave Earth. The atmosphere was clean enough to support human life, and if we waited it out long enough we could come back down after a few thousand years. Founded by five women- Hyliana, from the West American Province, the project coordinator and responsible for the technology; Dinsuka, from the Japan Province, responsible for finding the proper locations; Nayrubi, of Eastern Africa, who would decide the laws of the new land; Faroras of the Central American province, whose job was to decide what life we brought up to the sky with us: and Ayana, who would stay on the surface to intercept the people who came back down to earth after those many thousands of years, with help from age delaying technology. Many were skeptical of their ideas. Sure, the technology existed, but thousands of years seemed too long. Of course, thousands of years in the sky would be better than one on the surface, so many agreed to take part on that point.
Dinsuka had chosen a city abandoned by the war for the project. The city was known once as Crey, but it was called Skyloft by those who lived there at the time of ascension. It was small, with only a central bazaar, a residential area with only a few houses, and a small boarding school. The people of Crey built a statue of Hyliana on the north side of the city, which they said was to remind those who lived in Skyloft why they lived there. However, the statue held a safekeeping mechanism, to be opened by a direct descendant of Ayana when the time came to lower Skyloft back down to the ground.
It was disguised as a sword, simple, yet powerful if treated well, that housed an android known as FI to help the chosen one on his journey. There were other mechanisms as well, such as the lighthouse on the south side of the city, by a plaza, but there are too many mechanisms to name all of them. The sword was only a prototype, and would need upgrading. The upgrades were disguised as flames, and placed in various places around the world. One was placed in the care of a robot ship captain in the Indian Ocean by the mining facilities Nayrubi’s family ran. One was placed in a sanctuary in the Icelandic Province, which had become more and more volcanic during the war, and the third was placed in an old temple in an area not very far from where Crey was on the surface.
Faroras had genetically engineered an eagle-shoebill hybrid to be big enough to ride on, so the residents of Skyloft could explore the sky islands. Everyone on Skyloft was to be given one upon birth, and their bird- or Loftwing, as she called them- was to remain their own until death. She also cultivated pumpkin farming in Crey, and various healing flora. Faroras thought it would be nice to provide some of the Skyloft residents with pets, so she developed Remlits, mostly nocturnal creatures that were hybrids of cats and mice.
Nayrubi decided that to keep the structure of the city constant for thousands of years that no one was to know of the life on the surface other than that there was a surface in the first place. She strictly instructed the first residents to not say anything about the surface to their children. The only way to keep technology from developing was this way. She also founded the Skyloft Knight Academy in the boarding school to train young men and women to defend themselves from the dangers of the sky and to eventually train the chosen one to fight on the surface.
The final preparations were made, and the day had come to lift Crey into the sky. the levitation technology was developed by Hyliana and was called a Dynamic Molecular Control Capacitor, but because of its three-triangled shape was short handedly called the Triforce.
Those left on the surface were mutated and deformed, monsters of demonic nature. The mutated souls who maintained their humanity helped finalize the plans, who had begun to call themselves such names as 'gorons' or 'parellas'. Skyloft was sent into the sky, leaving the rest of humankind to die off, only the mutated surviving.
One little known fact about the Skyloft program was that there was one worker on the Skyloft project that rebelled against his orders and started working for the maker of this war between species- a man named Rupin, who managed to steal a spot in the sky and an age delaying capsule to survive. He brought the evil back to the world after the Hero descended again, and traveled endlessly across the surface collecting trinkets such as masks and relics left behind by the crumbled human civilization. He even found an alternate dimension to our world, but that will be elaborated upon later. He had met with a terrible fate in trying to heal his wrongs, and only the Hero's descendent could fix it.
