The year is 2049, and society has advanced considerably, although not in the way most have imagined. Due to the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, the revival of Imperial Russia seemed imminent, even though it took more than thirty years. After that Empire had been reconstructed, it proceeded to conquer all of the smaller countries surrounding it, then finally moving on to most of Western Europe. Led by a Sergei Monomakh, only England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany remain independent from the New Imperial Russia.
Technology has advanced beyond our imagining, this new era ushered in by the creation of a machine simply dubbed The Engine. The Engine is a complicated machine which analyzes its user's abilities. Based on these, the user is granted extraordinary abilities, based solely on their individual specialties. For instance, should one gifted with technology enter the Engine, they would emerge as a technopath. Of course, this sort of situation could turn out anyway, as each facet of the user's personality, even the most seemingly inapplicable, are considered when the user's inner abilities are tapped.
The original Engine was built by a Frenchman, but soon was a victim of world-wide acclaim. Constructing, maintaining, and using Engines became a new type of science, and one of the most highly desired of jobs. Soon enough, each major country had an Engine, and, as was inevitable, it became a weapon of war; to transform soldiers into super-humans. However, although the Engine is a machine built by man, there are still many things not known about it. Such as the many dangers, and the proper use, of an Engine.
If one who used an Engine was of a weak consitution, they died. If the user possessed no desirable abilities for which the Engine to tap into, they died. If the user was too young, they either died or were a victim of frightening side-effects.
Soon enough, rumors of war began to spread over the internet, and the U.S. reacted by setting up a program known to the government as Project 451, and to those apart of it formally as Locus Eruditio. The program consisted of three stages:
One--Capture: In which subjects are apprehended and entered into the program for training. Usually before age 15, as it is generally considered the youngest age to be sent through the Engine. Subjects are outstanding children who have shown talent in any set of abilities. Thus begins stage two.
Two--Training: Depending on the age, the subject is trained in their skills, then sent through the Engine. If they do not die, they are progressed onto stage three.
Three--Post-Engine: The subject continues training until entry into the U.S. Engine Corps.
After almost twenty years, it seems as though Locus Eruditio maybe finally be implemented, as a new, more ambitious Czar has taken the throne, and war has broken out between Germany and Russia.
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