HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE

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THE HISTORY

in 2084

World War Four is wreaking habit on all of the world, since chemical warfare is so strong now, many people are falling sick and radiation is giving them various forms of cancer. All of the huge power-players in this war are assembling their best scientists for both more destruction and to save their own people. After all, a country needs soldiers to sacrifice.

Victor Hughes was one such person, a genius scientist who was closest to cracking to code; he was the one who found the 'cure' for cancer. When Victor's beloved wife fell victim to the radiation and gained several types of cancers, it was a race against her deteriorating body to find a cure that could save her. He was doing it out of love for his wife, not for his country's huge gain in the war. Hughes assembled a select team of scientists, including his own son, Baron, to help him. Together father and son nearly perfected a liquid antidote, the 'Red Cure'.

They didn't know how it acted on humans, after all, they were the first to come up with something like this. If it failed, the red cure needed to be kept a secret, the test patient confined. Hughes suggested someone similar in genetics to his wife, and his son, wanting the glory, obliged to be the test subject.

So Baron was the first human subject, and everything seemed fine. He became healthier even though he didn't have cancer. With those types of results, what half-crazed scientist wouldn't try to cure his wife? The only problem was that Baron had the genetic coding from his father to be immune to the sort of psychological affects it had.The scientists didn't know it stole your mind and made you nothing more than a husk. They didn't know they had created the perfect mind-control device.

Victor Hughes gave that 'Red Cure' to the love of his life, certain he had just saved her.

She spiraled into depression and rage that evening. The other scientists documented this as the 'Torn' Phenomenon. When someone is given the 'Red Cure', their mind is basically tore from their brain, cut off from functions, allowing a very specific voice, the voice of the man who's dna slipped into the vial, to control the motions of the person. Their mind is plagued by every regret, sad thought, guilty moment in the memory, damaging it beyond repair. From what they were seeing, if you weren't immune to the psychological effects like Baron was, you were doomed. No escape from the hell inside your subconscious while your body acts a puppet for the creator to move around.

Victor was shattered. To have his son, a power-hungry scientist survive while his wife died due to a tiny slip up in the 'cure'? He couldn't handle the guilt. He had to blame someone else, anything else.

So he blamed the war. If not for that damned war, his wife would still be there, happy and smiling and alive. He wouldn't have condemned her to a life of eternal pain. Hughes went insane shortly after, and his son took advantage of that. Together they gave all of the soldiers the 'Red Cure', Victor because he wanted the soldiers to suffer the same his wife had, and Baron to control them all. Baron quickly realizes the liquid only has his father's DNA in it, so they only do what he commands. The son wanted to draft a new version that would allow him to take control and gain more power, but his father refused to share the last part of the chemical make up.


So instead, Baron uses his own father, a father who had never been around during his youth, to create a 'utopia', a place where war will never happen again. Baron rises to become commander of the army, and together they close off this new Empire away from the nasty, war ravaged world. Victor believes it's for the best, so he can work on curing his wife. In fact, he devotes the rest of his life to it. Baron on the other hand, uses this new power to install a totalitarian government, where his father is the 'front man', but through his father's work, he controls the country. Chancellor Hughes Senior gives the soldiers orders to obey Baron at his son's request.
As far as Victor knows, his beloved son is running a perfect society while he toils on to work for that cure.