The History of Melbourne.

Hey fools. I wrote up a brief history of melbourne fo our second life project. I've tried to inclued parts of everyone short stories they wrote last week.

History of Melbourne (2046-2051).

Vanomite.

In was in 2046 when the element Vanomite was first made, which in its natural form looked like a dark green ooze. It was a power chemical designed to use in genetic science to help cure diseases and fatal wounds. However the current Prime Minister, Charles Green, believed that Vanomite could be used to enhanced Australia’s armed forces, so set up a massively funded project to create a new kind of soldier.

The creation of the Kellys.

The project start with little success. The genetic creatures that were created weren’t able to fit the standard that Charles wanted, so were exterminated, (although so were rumored to escape.) The first real genetic soldiers that were created that pass standards were the Hoplites and the Song Vipers. The Hoplites, cloned from the greatest football and rugby player, were 8-feet tall close combat warriors designed to be shock troopers, while the Song Vipers, cloned from Australia’s most poisons snakes and community theater performers, were designed to be infiltrators and assassins, armed with great flexibly and poisonous fangs. However due to the honorable nature of the Hoplites and unpredictable mind set of the song vipers, they made infective regular soldiers. The miliary were finally able to create the perfect regular soldier in 2047, dubbed the Kelly, after the power armour they would be given. They were already created with the knowledge of combat, as well enhanced scenes and healing, yet they could easily be mistaken for humans, both in appearance and in personality.

The bitter ministers.

The prime minister had focused a large percentage of the budget into creating his new elite soldiers and little for anything. The states began to argue other which one of them decried the rest of the budget. Arguments quickly turned into hatred as each state began to build up it’s own army. People pleased to the Prime Minister to stop this rival before something broke out, but he had no interested in inferring. It only seem to be a matter of time before broke out.

A national divided.

It was on the eve of 2048 when the Prime Minister simply vanished, even to year 2051 people do not know what happened to him. With the leader gone, each of the state minister demanded that they should become the new Prime Minister, even if they had to use force. On the 3^rd of January, 2048 the states decided war on each other.

We’re happy little Vanomen.

It was a year into the war and little had been achieved from any one of the states. Each state had taken heavy loses in their genetical enhanced soldiers and it soon looked like that the civil war would be over due to lack of troops, when a new kind of trooper, only known as the Happy Little Vanomen offend their services to each nations. The Vanomen were genetical similar to the Kellys, however where they differentiate was that Vanomen could be created from human volunteers (willing or other wises,) unlike the Kellys would were grown from test tubes, and that the Vanomen lacked human emotions like love, pity or even the idea of friendship. The public criticized that the Vanomen were as unAustralian as you get, but bitterly the Ministers accepted the Vanomen terms, giving them funds and ‘volunteers’ in exchange for fighting for them.

God’s missile.

Perhaps out of great irony, the war was ended when each capital was stuck with a malfunctioning missile that failed to kill anyone. It was unsure where the missiles came from, but each one stuck a office building in the middle of each capital cities. Armed with Vanomite based virus, they were designed to wipe out whole states. However the missile had gained intelligence, and had modified the virus to recreate the office dwellers into a new species of humans with psionic powers over machines to prove they could. The workers abandon their old ways of life and became the tech mages, worshiping the bombs as gods and carrying out their wills.

Divined states.

With unknown missile striking so deep into their cities, the States Ministers all agreed that they needed to end the war, before another missile bombardment could caught them off guard, however due to them unable to choose a leader, it was declared that each state would become it’s own nation, with each state unable to hold rule other another. And so on January the 1^st 2050 the war came to an end.

Disbanded soldiers.

With the war over, many of the genetical created soldiers quickly found themselves out of work as each of the states moved the focus of the budget to rebuilding their new nations. The hoplites took control of the abandoned football stations turning them into bloody combat arenas fighting one another for their holy grail while the Song Vipers took shelter in the gallery and theaters, often causing great finical damage for what they called art. The few Kellys that were left became mercenaries, selling their skills to highest bidder, or even like the famous Baron Von Evil of Melbourne offered to train their skills to those willing to pay the prices. For the Vanomen, the end of the war was the worst thing that could happen to them as they no longer had a solid income. They fled into the bush land to rebuild their forces.

Melbourne in madness.

William So, great grandson of John So of the So Dynasty, became lord of Victoria in 2050 at the age 18, after his old brother and former minister, Gray So fall in battle. His family bloodline’s history of being the people the bros gave the people of Victoria hope, but even his reputation was unable to stop the violence the still thrived after the world. All of Australia’s former states had falling into infighting and crime, as rogue war bands and criminals roamed the outer suburbs and town. Even Melbourne wasn’t safe from the lawlessness, even with it’s new line of caging robots, as tram racing gangs roamed the streets and pirates dwelled in the Yarra.

Killex.

With increase of price for fuel, more and more people had to rely on public transport to get about their daily business. This is with a man know as Neil, a former Tech Mage exiled from their order, stepped in with a train company know as ‘Killex.’ Using his Tech Mage powers he had from the dead, half-cyborg zombies know as the helpers, designed to be as unhelpful as possible and using Cager robot technology and the brains from the most evil killer from the Australian civil war, he created the ‘Inspectors,’ large mechanical beings that took joy bullying anyone who needed to use the train system, human or vending machine robot, and then executing them in the most bloody was possible should they not pay up. Neil seemed to take sadist joy in making as many people as he could late and by taking as much money from them as he could.

The raise of the Knighthood.

When the train service became too pricey for most people, the citizens of Melbourne had to use the yarra to get to work. But with the increasing amount of pirates in the river, it soon became more too dangerous to make a boat to work. It wasn’t until a bum know as Jacob found the lost underwater casino of the Yarra. The lost casino was built in 2038 as a private area for Melbourne’s top mobsters and was believed to be lost in the war. With the aid of an aged wander, Jacob claimed the casino as his own, along with the former Don boss’ famous weapon, the Tommiemore, and founded the Knighthood, the new Victorian Mob. Using the money he made he was able to able build up a mighty armada of boats and armed cars to give protection to those willing to pay the large prices.

The Vanomen plot.

As each state was being more and more lawless, the Vanomen had been rebuilding their forces. They had send diplomats to each of the capital cities, offering to bring law and order to the states in exchange for giving the Vanomen great political power. The lords of each states were now faced with a great problem, let their new nations fall into infighting or give the extremis Vanomen what they want.

The Uprising.

But behind the golden words of peace and law, the Vanomen had already preformed horrible acts. Without anyway to contact the larger cities, the smaller towns of former Australia were taken quickly taken over by the Vanomen by force. Subjects were taken, people were looted and if the town proved unhelpful, the town was put to torch. Many of the escapees of the Vanomen’s warpath fled to the major cities and plead the lords, the Vanomen’s diplomats were able to convince the lords that these acts were due to outlaws posing as them and any words these country folk should not be taking to heart. So the Uprising was formed, deterred to get revenge on the Vanomen, they strike at them hoping to disrupt their ties with the lords.