Welcome Operatives, to our third Entering the Loop article!
This week we're taking a look at the game's lore to give you a brief overview of what's guiding the motivations of Lemnis Industries and the team of deep space operatives. If you're a fan of science fiction stories and time travel, this is definitely one to read!
In the not too distant future, humanity is facing extinction. A designer DNA sequence meant to neuter and reduce violent tendencies in household pets has rendered several mammals, including humans, infertile. Medical experts promised a solution and the world held its breath. As time passed, no solution was forthcoming.
With the medical option not working, governments across the globe turned to other potential solutions, gathering the top minds of their generation to formulate a plan. Eventually the green light was given to the Lemnis Initiative, a collaboration between all the world's governments and Lemnis Industries, a deep rooted private research and development company.
When the terrible news of the world's infertility spread, Lemnis Industries was one of the many companies who stepped up and offered their services. Their groundbreaking plan to prevent human extinction was met by insurmountable relief. Lemnis Industries has been at the forefront of technology for decades, and their current project represents their greatest scientific accomplishments: The Lemnis Gate.
The vision was grand. Nothing of this magnitude had ever been undertaken before. There was nothing to lose, and the math and physics seemed to hold up.
The Lemnis Gate is a name given to a bubble of space around Earth, isolated by a mesh network of accelerators positioned on neighbouring, off-world sites. Once activated, the network will isolate and sever a region of space, propelling everything inside backwards in time by around 50 years. The world will revert to how it was 50 years ago, but with one key difference: Lemnis Gate pioneers will have left three beacons containing vital data that will warn humanity about what lies ahead, just outside the space the Lemnis gate occupies. This message to the past will be unaffected by the time displacement, transmitting a warning message to the earth in the past as mankind's last chance at survival.
So far the project has been in development for several years, and over 85% of the off-world gate sites are operational. However, a troubling side effect has become apparent: Localised pockets of space have become prematurely severed, fracturing the regular flow of time and causing distortions in reality. Parallel universes have begun to intersect and overlap. It turns out this isn't the only version of earth working on a Lemnis Gate project! The frequency of incidents have increased the closer the Lemnis Gate comes to completion.
Teams of operatives from parallel universes are now competing across the different off-world sites in an attempt to be the one who activates their Lemnis Gate network first. Only one reality can ultimately be successful. It's up to Lemnis Industries' highly-trained operatives who were recruited to scout, secure and maintain the off-world sites and defend them from attack. If successful, humanity's extinction will have been averted.
Disrupt the past; Change the future.
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