Trinity
Journal Entry – January 25th, 3021
I remember how the world ended.
It wasn't with some flash of light, it wasn't from a catastrophic war, and it wasn't from an angry deity. It was negligence.
Obviously the world wasn't destroyed, but it ended; the same way I imagine that the world ended for the indigenous species of the world, for the knights of lore, for the empires of legend… the world ends because of negligence on someone's part.
My world ended because humanity became obsessed with technology, the rapid advancement plowing forward at an unmaintainable pace until finally life couldn't sustain itself.
The ozone lay practically decayed, the poles melted, the seas rose… the world was devoured by water. Continents vanished like a scene out of some science fiction novel, and so many people couldn't get away. Only the highest points of land remained, mountainous regions and areas so far inland that the water couldn't reach.
A drastically diminish population was met with a drastically decreased landmass. Food was scarce, people were living practically on top of one another, and the death toll kept rising. The people turned to the only thing they knew: technology.
Yes, they let technology save them, and the world as anyone knew it came to an end.
Survival will lead people to make choices they never before considered, and when faced with the extinction of the human race, they made a choice that never should have been conceived. They chose to live forever.
Bans on cloning technology were removed the moment Nobel Prize winning doctor Tsunade Baachan discovered a method for transplanting human memories from one body into another. With this one discovery, a single human being could essentially go on living forever, transferring their consciousness from one clone body to the next… for the end of time.
It was the miracle everyone had been searching for. Death was no longer frightening; rather it became an anticipated event. As the years plowed forward, swapping bodies became a fashion statement, and like any branch of fashion it evolved.
Technology spread to every facet of life, and everyday new advancements were created. No one seemed to have learned from their mistakes, because technology had a stronger hold on the populace than ever before. People began to modify the clone bodies with technology, making themselves faster, stronger, smarter, able to stay away for weeks and months at a time. Because the fear of death was no longer a powerful deterrent, criminal organizations used this technology for person gains…
This led to the creation of the Technocracy, a new world government which policed the use of Modifications and Cloning. People were now required to be of service to the united populace, and if your life was not of benefit… you didn't get to continue it.
Now, more than ever before, technology was god.
Every citizen pushed themselves to create something of benefit, to be useful to their society for fear that their life would have to end. With the Technocracy came the fear of death once more, and with that fear came peace… though it was a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of many.
The Technocracy held their power with an iron fist and a private army of Modified enforcers, all separated into specialized Echelons, depending upon the job they would be required to perform. As time progressed, the only way to guarantee one's continued existence was to either be a scientist or to work for the Technocracy.
The reproduction rate practically halted within a decade. Rather than create new human life, citizens were concerned with preserving their own. After all, why have a child when you can just get a new body that will look however you want it to look, it will be modified to do whatever you want it to do, and it will last for as long as you want it to last… provided you can be of service to the Technocracy.
As I am certain you can guess, there were many people disgruntled by the state of affairs, and if history shows one truth it is this: repressed people rebel.
A group calling themselves "The Unmodified" rose up in protest to their oppressive government. While the protests started out as peaceful, they were quickly and effectively shut down. When their pleas fell upon deaf ears, peaceful protests turned into violent revolution.
Sadly, in a populace as small as the one in this current world, a revolution is almost impossible. The Technocracy has eyes and ears everywhere, because technology is everywhere. The ordinary citizen is too concerned with self-preservation.
Unmodified citizens were punished for the uprising, cast out of the major cities and into the harsh wilderness, what little of it remained. They went underground, second-class citizens, traitors, criminals, but the fires of rebellion still burned in their hearts, even if they were only faintly glowing embers at that point.
I don't know why I am even writing this down, perhaps because I'm hopeful that one day someone, somewhere out there, will find this and they will feel even the slightest bit of remorse or concern? I won't live to see it. Hell, it may never come to pass, but hope is the only thing we have to keep us from giving up and surrendering. Perhaps, if nothing more that this simple desire, I hope that this journal will be enough to guide you, my son.
May it help you learn from the mistakes of history, so that you might lead our people toward a better future.
All my love,
Minato Namikaze
A/N -
This is my other nugget of inspiration (if you are interested, my other story I just posted is called Sound and Fury, which can be found on my profile). I'm putting it out there to see what people think about it. If I get enough feedback, then I'll keep writing it. I have a few chapters put together, just so I can try a test run. If people aren't responsive, then I'll just go back to my other stories (since my writing juices have started flowing again).
Thing you need to know:
-This is an AU. It's set in a futuristic world. The story is sci-fi, and it involves the use of human modifications and implants, which I will use to create "ninja" like abilities and whatnot.
-This is a Yaoi story. There will be boy x boy romance. I don't do smut; however, there may be a love scene or two. They won't be graphic, but I will warn people nonetheless when they arrive. Pairings will be SasuNaru, GaaNaru, SasuGaa, and finally SasuNaruGaa. It's a love triangle, hence the title. Yep. I'm witty like that. (Also, my regulars know how much I enjoy love triangles).
-Finally there will be a few characters that are OOC, mainly because I want to toy with using them in different ways. They will still have their basic personalities intact, but they may end up being villains when they are normally heroes, or villains might be used as heroes. Just enjoy yourselves, and I promise the ride is gonna be fun.
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