Musing #1: What are These About?
TW: Pandemic Well, as you can see, some of the arts have already been posted and I hope some of them are interesting. But what are these about, exactly? Well, to answer that... The Digimons that I posted so far are actually my OC's Digimons. They belong to something of a fanmade setting that I made, something called "ADVENT". Digimon ADVENT.
That world took place on year 2050-- but unlike Ghost Game where it's definitely futuristic with 7G and all, world of ADVENT... was a world that got caught in a technological catastrophe never seen before. It all started during 2022. The world recovered from pandemic faster due to chosen working behind the scene. By 2022, there would be around 60000 active chosen around the world. With that many number, the kind of crisis that requires a chosen to fight for their life has significantly reduced, and their kind of duty has changed. Chosen are instead treated as a wandering peacekeepers or adventurer to digital world, while ensuring no Digimons crosses over to real world. Indeed, there are also DATS in this era.
In Digital World, chosen often forms Guild, organization that focuses on specific direction in how the chosen behaves. About 60% of active chosen joined guilds. Each guilds are tied to city-states they're attached to, usually acting as their peace task force, and enjoys benefit from such cities. Cities of such digital world also does not quite behave like real world nations. War for resources aren't quite common, and trades are often minimalistic. Inter-city wars are also practically unheard of, considering each countries have different demographics and have huge territories with almost all the needs. In that era of peace however, there are still problems within the cities, and outside of it, still within in that city's territory. Sometimes evil lurks... but even then, humans and Digimons worked together to bring the situation back to normal.
But then, one day, a change that swept the world began to happen. Ready to leave 5G behind, the world is heading toward 6G. The data transfer rate being that quick would make the already giant digital world become even more gigantic. The administrator is said to plan to change the digital world to prevent rapid bloating of the world by creating sub-servers, which are essentially creating different sections of digital world that are semi-connected. The category for these servers are unknown, but by filtering certain datas, uncontrollable growth of digital world would be managed.
Yet... something absurd happened. Something that no one could predict. The pandemic have killed millions, and after such number of deaths there were a huge mistrust toward the government, and anti-government organization decided to release ransomware virus targetting various country's government servers, in hope finding some sort of incriminating documents, either pertaining to mishandling the pandemics, or proof of responsibility of the pandemics.
What they did not count on however, was that one of these server contained a digital lifeform. Upon being taken by the virus, the digital lifeform mutated into a catastrophic being that broke itself from the containment field and escaped to the internet, where it attempted and succeeded in reaching digital world. In its all consuming rampage, it even absorbed many security digimons who came to destroy it. Veritas calculated that with its growth, a complete subduing of said being is impossible, and only could delay it. Veritas decided to question his agents to find the best way possible to handle this situation. An agent suggested that the best way is to escape from the catastrophe is to send an ark toward other digital world, and to send the humans back to the real world, and purges the area affected by the world ending lifeform. Veritas agreed to that solution and focused all of his processing power to hasten the speed of digital world on a certain area so that they could work on the ark program unabated, while holding back the progress of the attack as best as they could.
The more the time passes, however, the more Veritas understood that his calculation was off. With no choice but to turn to human's help, Veritas told them they have two options. To run away to real world,or to help and halt the progress of the devouring being. While many chosen chose to fled to the real world, many decided to stay and fight. But as the battle rages on, they began to understand just how impossible of a fight it is. A siege war without break. The more the digital world get consumed, the weaker Veritas becomes... and before long, the administrator decided that there is no other way but to purge the whole digital world, otherwise if this being survived, then there will be no future, whether it is real world or digital world.
In deciding whether to save thousands and risking life of billions, or ensuring billions live while sacrificing thousands... Veritas in a heart wrenching decision chose the latter... but not before teleporting chosen children in reserve back to the real world, sparing them from being digitized.
What Veritas had no time to calculate however, was the damage done to Digital World is reflected to the real world, specifically the cybersystem. It caused a complete technological devastation as satellites ceases to function. Navigation and various other systems went down, and it causes a never seen before aeronautical and marine disaster. Not only that, communications, even between provinces, were severed, causing massive issues that eventually reaped hundreds of thousands if not millions of life. But thanks to human resillence, they managed to restore the technology back to the current era in 2050.
However, without doubt, there were gaps caused by the technological apocalypse... Inflation, change of world power, loss of research materials and developments of various new ideas... and that effect is felt until now.