Prologue: Begin.
Many years in the future from this time, the greed, gluttony, and irresponsibility of mankind lead to its ultimate downfall. Earth fell to pollution and was no longer a hospitable planet, its seemingly endless resources having been depleted. Humans now had mastered magic and technology; reaching the pinnacle of the races capabilities. Both had been combined in stunning works of advancement. Culture was at its finest, technological progression was at an alarming rate. Humans now straddled the threshold of the power of god; and being so they created in their likeness two new species, the Androids and the Newmans. The first were Androids, created through technology, the mechanical counterpart of humans. These were made completely from metallic and plastic parts, though they could still think, speak, feel, and act the way a human would. Androids had superhuman abilities, yet no concept of magic, and some, even no concept of emotion. The Newmans came next, created through magic. The Newmans were a more fragile race, constructed of flesh like the humans. They had tall, elf-like ears, slender forms, and usually pale skin. Their minds were able to work at a much greater capacity than that of many humans, and they had a strange genetic affinity for magic. The Newmans were generally created among a few scattered magic-science groups, therefore resulting in the relative variation in their genetic code; a race as genetically different from one another as humans themselves. As Earth was destroyed, the population of Humans, Newmans, and Androids were forced to leave earth in two great waves of refugees. The first wave left in a great ship, Pioneer 1, a project made with many of the last supplies contained on earth, as the three races sacrificed all they had to escape as refugees. Pioneer 1, a great ship constructed of hundreds of smaller ones, a gargantuan juggernaut of magic and technology, was sent into space to find a new home for humanity, a new habitat, a new hope for survival. Scientists scanned distant galaxies for a desirable planet, and finally found one that suited the needs of the people: Ragol. Ragol was a fair planet of equal climate, nature, and size as Earth, it had plants and a strong atmosphere, native animals, water in great supply. Pioneer 1 landed there, deconstructing all its ships and creating the first large colony, consisting of all the refugees aboard the ship. Life prospered on Pioneer 1, as the central dome was constructed, an enormous structure in which all of the colonists lived. As word of Ragol reached the barren planet Earth, the second wave of immigrants prepared to leave; constructing another tremendous ship, hundreds of ships tied together by tethers of invisible magic to a set of four enormous sections. Pioneer 2, of course, left shortly after this, departing from Earth to follow its predecessor and deliver the final wave of Earth's refugees to Ragol. The new world was so close to completion.
Seven years later, after traveling thousands of light-years, Pioneer 2 reached Ragol's atmosphere. The human survival project, that which all three races had struggled to complete for years on end, had come so close to its finishing point. A second colony would be built, the human race would be safe for all time, to prosper, to learn from the mistakes they had made. The divine race would once again prevail and live on eternally. Having learned its lessons, Ragol would provide a second chance and a new, more prosperous life for everyone. All that remained was to complete the communications link between Pioneers 1 and 2. After this, a new, more successful age of affluence and contentment would begin. The people of Pioneer two gathered in the main ship's many projected, transparent floors, gazing up through its domelike roof towards the glorious planet above them. Ragol looked so peaceful, so marvelous floating amidst the black abyss of space and sparkling stars. It's green and blue hues, swathed in whitish, long brushstrokes of clouds shone in their eyes as a beacon of hope; bringing tears to almost all of its gigantic audience. In four hours exactly, Pioneer 2 would establish its communications link with Pioneer 1. New lives would begin, exhausted travelers would rest in paradise. No one had even the slightest suspicion of the horrors that awaited them; the horrors that they themselves contained.