The Allure of Visions: Prologue

I have decided to write a novel of sorts, its a Prequel to Seeking a Tomorrow, a Flash Game I am making right now.

Prologue

Everyone, from the poorest of children to the most wealthy of adults, they all have dreams and ambitions. The image of these dreams are known as Visions, the final product in the future seen now. However, the barrier between dreams and visions is reality. Reality is subject to a strict set of laws and maintained by a mechanism known as Natural Selection. Man, whom have long been dreaming for that which is beyond the atmosphere, finally broke through the chains of gravity into the vastness of Space.

A man has a vision and the only man ever who has the insight to the flaw of man. The people call him the Idealist, a man who only works for his own principles and ideals rather than for money. A software programmer of legendary proportions, he has been able to speed up research by up to 80years with his software. Although businessman and governments around the world offer billions of dollars for his services, he declined all to work on his dream. The Idealist is allured to the vision of an Artificial Intelligence that has Emotions and yet perfected with the calculative abilities of a computer. He would soon realise the foolishness of his ways and the contradiction of his beliefs to find the true path to his real vision.

The year is 2135CE (Common Era), about 200 years after the first man was sent into space. Mankind thus constructed space colonies to support the ever increasing need for living space. Colonies range from Colonial Satellites that orbit around the Earth and Space Stations that stands between Mars and Earth. Although there are humans on Mars, they are mostly researchers or technicians in charge of Martian mining operations. Most colonies obtain most of their raw materials from Earth, Mars or Asteroids near-by. However, fossil fuels have long been exhausted and the promised Fusion Energy is far beyond the comprehension of mere humans. True power lies with the Colonies in Space, where Solar Power is at its Maximum capacity and this energy is packaged into Fuel Cells for export to Earth.

The Space Colonies originally belonged to international body of the United Humanity Organisation(UHO) under the guidance of the United States of America. However, in 2123CE, the people of the colonies gathered and revolted against UHO and formed the Republic of Space Colonies, also known fondly as the Space Republic. The Space Republic Revolution spread like wildfire across all of the Space Colonies, even on Mars. The United Nations of Earth (UNoE), a federation of nations still on Earth naturally resisted against any independence movement for the Space Colonies since generations before spent huge sums to construct those colonies. This escalated into a war, known as the War of the Colonial Independence, known amongst the people as the Independence War.

The Space Republican Army consists of well-made and efficient Space fighters that surpasses all kinds of space vehicles the UNoE can build. Naturally, UNoE is unable to defeat the Space Republic since they have more experience and knowledge of the vacuum that space if made of. The true deciding factor was the introduction of the Space battleship, a fear-inducing monstrous construct the size of a space station with the speed of a Space transport. The independence of the Space Republic spells the downfall of the Earth Nations as the Space Republic would have monopolistic control over Solar Energy.

The Space Republic can generate more than eight times the amount of solar energy and convert them into fuel cells than any nation on Earth. Earth imports almost seventy percent of their energy requirements in the form of Fuel Cells from the Space Colonies. Fortunately for Earth, the newly elected Secretary General of the UNoE, Mr James Vindel of USA, made a proposition to the Space Republic near the end of the war of independence. Secretary General Vindel proposed a system where Earth will recognise the Space Republic and stop the war if they would allow the UNoE to trade raw materials for energy from them. The Lady Diaz Mandred, the Chairlady of the Space Republic accepted Vindel's proposal for the peace treaty.

The Idealist was not yet known outside of the research community, Lady Diaz asked him to create a software that will allow a fair trade of energy for raw materials. As he wanted peace, the Idealist begun work on an Algorithm that would be fair and a system that is unbreakable. Within a mere week, the legendary developer programmed a software that will soon be known as the Intelligent Network Structure of Trading Raw and Useful Materials for Energy in Negotiable Transactions, or INSTRUMENT for short. It measures the demand for raw materials in space and the demand for energy on Earth, which the INSTRUMENT then computes the amount in which a certain type of raw material can be traded for one kilojoule of Energy. The fairness and accuracy of the system is flawless and was recognised by all from both sides. 12th August 2128 marked the end of the Independence War.

No money was accepted by the Idealist, he only wanted peace and simply time to work on his dream. However, no one have seen this enigmatic man although some knew of his wife. Marisa Lee, a government Geneticist for the Space Republic, was known for her involvement in many classified projects, though she denied claims of being his wife in order to avoid the press. The Lady Diaz has been the best friend of Marisa since their time in the school.It was Marisa who convinced her husband to develop a powerful engineering software that led to creation of the low-cost and deadly "Republican" Space Fighters that prevented the UNoE's army from leaving Earth. Without the help of the Idealist, not only would the Republican take another 50 years to develop, the design of the Yellosia Space Battleship would be virtually impossible.

31st December 2130, about two years after the end of the Independence War, the Lady Diaz was Assassinated. Lord Charles Mandred, the husband of Diaz took office as the Chairman of the Space Republic and named the Currency as Diaz. Jane Diaz was originally Lady Diaz's name but she loved her family so much that she choose to become her family by using he maiden last name as her first. However, Diaz left the world with her only son, Diason Mandred, which would be fondly known as the Prince Diason. Even though the Space Republican system runs on a ten year electoral system, the citizens of the republic enjoy placing titles of royalty upon their leaders; which is soon accepted officially.

Prince Diason is born with a body so weak that even modern medicine could only barely keep him alive. A classified military project aims to mix nanotechnology with genetics to create a super soldier. Lord Charles realised that this project could not only save Prince Diason but render him impervious to assassination. This is the very project Marisa is working on, a project that has stagnated for over ten years. Perhaps, Marisa's husband could help accelerate the project and create a way to produce super soldiers as though as its a creature construction video game. However, the Idealist find the idea of creating such super soldiers terrifying and the idea of rendering humans invincible a prospect that could doom humanity.