The first thing I was taught when I joined BL/Ind was that death was an inevitability. Clearly this is something we grow up knowing, we were born therefore must die yet it is something we never fully accept. You slowly watch those you love around you grow old and you instantly fear the small fragments of time they have left, someone is diagnosed with a disease that can never be cured, you resort to prayers, someone is left grievously injured and you battle against their own inability to survive. Why? Because, though people can understand death, they can never truly get over it's existence until till it is upon them.
Before the fires of 2012 fear and religion was rife, causing some of the greatest atrocities in the Earth's expansive history. Women, though striving for "equal rights" were still considered objects, children were at the mercy of their parents, attacks were something of a constant; innocent members of the public targeted in order to make political statements. Before the fires all that was left was 7 billion people who relied on belief to survive, whose fear of the inevitable corrupted the powerful and dominated the weak.
The establishment of BLI was the single most greatest event for mankind, it created order, it devoided the Earth of this plague. It was BL/Ind who was solely responsible for extinguishing these fires that had almost left the world barren in it's wake and selected those allowed to live. The world that was recreated was no-longer in chaos, they no-longer relied on religion and a consistency for all humans was created.
All were equals or so most believed.
In our world there are two types of people, those with the gift and those without. Those who are 'blessed' with this supposed gift often "dream", in the crudest sense of the word, about the time before BLI and are aware of a past before the earth was cleansed in a blaze. Ordinary citizens are only aware of the time during and after the fires, the knowledge of the salvation offered by BLI is all the need know and the panic and terror they felt when the world was alight. They are aware of some consciousness of the times before, they know the chaos, they remember anarchy but if you ask for any specifics of their life, like what they did to commemorate any birthday, they would merely glaze over. For those who are unaware of this simple fact are taught that we are divided by those loyal to the Organisation and those who wish for anarchy. For the similarity between pre-2012 and post-2012 was that ignorance dominated the public.
The rebels however fight for something most can't understand, liberation and freedom. Why, in this world would they want the world to fall again? Why, when living in a Utopia, would anyone want to return to the fear that destroyed and created carnage? A new force, The Killjoys, are the latest in a string of many to flaunt their abilities and it is the duty of people like me, that are dutifully sent to eradicate the threat or die trying.