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Overview

Overview

The Remnants are the fractured remains of an Authority from another timeline whose actions led to a sudden and inexplicable event (dubbed the the ALPHA-Trigger) which cause a single, irreparable, universe-wide calamity and subsequent cascade of anomalies that fundamentally changed life forever for those residing within it. According to acquired documents, most, if not all attempts at trying to counteract the ensuing chaos failed, as did many world governments and the veil of normalcy itself. With the fabric of reality made into an aberration far beyond baseline recognition, combined with wide-spread containment breaches, the Authority's chain of command quickly broke down.

The remnants of the Authority, led by the fractured remains of its former rulers, cult personalities, and numerous ideologues, managed to survive the calamity with a substantial amount of technology and personnel. Those leaders who had access to transdimensional technologies quickly used the last of their resources to evacuate the remaining high-value personnel to pre ALPHA-trigger timelines of relative normality.

As for those few who remained, some have begun to jump into our timeline, influencing the world in unseen ways. Playing with variables, attempting to pinpoint the source of the errors and actions that lead to their downfall—a source they cannot even agree on among themselves—all in an attempt to amend their failures in our reality, and hopefully prevent what they see as inevitable from occurring. Be it by causing "black-outs" in several sites only for their databases to come back missing more than one anomaly, or utilizing advanced and anomalous equipment from their reality to aid the Authority. As the purported "source" varies from Authority failures to outside meddling, these groups know no bounds. Driven by a maniacal denial of their world's fate, jealousy and disbelief that our Authority endures sans "failure", or a genuine desire to help avoid calamity, they can be both helpful allies or ruthless foes.

For this reason, and despite their usual cooperation with the Authority, they are often seen on both sides of conflict, changing based on what they think might affect the future in a beneficial manner. Additionally, they are almost impossible to locate or find by reliable means due to their constant paranoia, deep knowledge of our Authority's inner workings, and guerilla tactics, using this advantage to blindside Authority agents, GoIs, and AoIs in the field. There is a considerable debate among top level bureaucrats as to whether to directly interfere in their actions, or allow them to continue to surgically remove "errors" they believe may play a part in the ALPHA-Trigger. As of now, the Intranet has been fortified substantially, but Remnant "black-outs" still occur once every few years.

Status Report

Very little is known about the current state of the Remnant's world, and all reliable information, obtained from Ark documents and eye-witness accounts, has been compiled below. It should be noted that only reports of currently studied areas have been added into the continental status segment.

Timeline Report

While their world was near identical in history, culture, geography, and more prior to the disaster, fragmentary evidence suggests a slight paratechnological gap further agitated in their favor by rapid technological/anomalous developments following the ALPHA-Trigger. This is not uniform across the timeline as a result of the collapse of global supply chains: many areas and groups are strikingly regressive, while others wield equipment years ahead of anything in our Authority's possession.

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Continental Status

North America - In the western world, those embers of civilization that prevailed fight with one another, as well as with their new environment, for survival. The immediate collapse of centralized society under the cascade of anomalous events, and the escape of much of the authority’s contained anomalies, has left significant chunks of the country depopulated and far more deadly than any time in human history. Yet, still, a form of decentralized society still manages to thrive within the rubble.

South America - Anomalies now reign grand stretches of South America and its inhabitants, with much of the population at the mercy of roving hostile entities; pockets of low coherence have decimated much of the previous geography and rendered it unrecognizable compared to baseline. With the collapse of global supply chains, few centralized areas of large scale human habitation remain, and those that remain utilize an approach to the anomalous has been necessarily aggressive in order to sustain themselves.

Africa - Often described as hell on earth, active volcanoes cover the central regions of land, and entities described only as “demon-like” emerge from the ground in great hordes, locking much of the preexisting hostile anomalies and surviving human population into a violent, bloody stalemate. Though this has allowed much of the outer edges of the continent to remain comparatively untouched, Egypt is recorded as having been entirely subsumed into a pocket of dangerously low coherency of unknown origin, rendering it lost to the outside world.

Europe - Europe has become a hub for the once suppressed global paranatural, arcane, and neo-esoteric communities; many trying to fiercely impose upon the continent the “magic” that, in their words, once filled the land many centuries ago. With a flood of anomalous subcultures of all stripes flocking to the region to take advantage of the marginally lowered coherency of much of its landmass, one is to expect chaotic wannabe mages and rogue arcane experiments to roam the lands. Much of that now-free magic has, however, begun to seep into the earth and change the landscape from within.

Asia - Claims of those who have ventured into Asia vary greatly. Some claim it to be a dreamlike land where only madness is constant, while others retell the falling and rising empires of Siberia. Although, all remain consistent with the existence of a supposed “East Korea.”

Australia - Reports of super-fauna and anomalous behemoths are common across the Sandy Desert, shaping the land with their migrations, drinking entire lakes and leaving craters in the fields of their carnage. There's also claims about Sydney being ravaged by broods of parasitic grubs.

Factions

The following is an incomplete list of the factions that still remain, or have formed, within the Remnants timeline, separated by their abilities to travel between dimensions.

Dimensionally Active

Auctoritas Intelligencia

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The Auctoritas Intelligencia is led by the remnants counterpart to our current GD-CMDR, "Lightning Rod". According to Remnants documentation, in the immediate wake of the Alpha-Trigger he coup'd the current GD-CMDR in this timeline, after agents and soldiers around him held a private vote of no-confidence. Following this, a wide collective of personnel coming from the more militant sections of the authority banded together under the militarized banner of the Protection division, taking with them great swathes of military and technological resources from surviving authority sites.

The Auctoritas Intelligencia is currently operating out of the Russian Extreme North, an area near unscathed by the Alpha-Trigger, where they have established a highly defensible base of operations. From this position, the Auctoritas Intelligencia has launched a number of assaults, using mundane weaponry and more esoteric Thaumaturgic means to neutralize anomalous phenomenon and entities in the immediate surrounding regions, and are pushing outwards from the Russian north at a steady pace.

Interactions with baseline authority have frequently been terse at best, as Auctoritas Intelligencia agents have utilized their high level information on Authority sites and a number of devices dedicated to extra dimensional extraction—consistently used by other Remnants Authority personnel to escape the timeline—to instead initiate supply raids on baseline sites, collecting weaponry and technological resources to fuel their actions within the Remnants timeline.

Despite this, the Auctoritas Intelligencia has offered significant and tangibly useful information on the destruction of anomalous objects and entities to baseline authority agents, claiming a desire to help avert similar reality altering events within baseline.

Scattered reports indicate attempts at returning reality to a facsimile of baseline are hampered through the organization’s permanent lockstep war with an anomalous, self-proclaimed 'god' known only as Mars Aeris, what is presumed based on residual reports to be the Remnants version of "GD-WAR", a deranged shell of his former self whose mind and body have mutated beyond recognition, resultant from the anomalous effects of the ALPHA-Trigger—thereby taking it as his personal mission to strike down supposed enemies of the long-gone Authority, using the corrupted minds and flesh of those he conquered to do so.

The Eyes of the Ark

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The Ark is a group of traveling caravans, researchers, mercenaries, and sometimes anomalous humanoids led by the Department Heads of the Research Division prior to the ALPHA-Trigger. There is no clear date for the foundation, as its members, goals, and name have frequently changed throughout the years following the dissolution of the Authority, with a number of small, like-minded independent groups coalescing together and dividing in the years after the ALPHA-Trigger. Only recently have they managed to properly organize into a centralized organization with the discovery of Site-112 and Project Dominion.

Thanks to its secluded nature and anomalous-powered defenses, Site-112 only suffered mild casualties during the ALPHA-Trigger, possessing prototypes of advanced technology and running data servers—commonly carried far afield by research caravans to archive their discoveries. Most important of all, however, were the remains of Project Dominion and the Mobile Study Station #33, an unfinished research naval ship capable of self-propelled flight, commonly known as the “Ark”. Over the years, the Ark has improved upon its ship’s design, using scrap technology and anomalous means to power their endeavors across the globe. This allowed the previously decentralized groups to communicate with one another, as well as acquiring a permanent base of operations to share and store information and artifacts once excursions are over.

The Ark travels around the remaining continents of the world in order to catalog and study the many anomalies that have appeared since. This is done to warn nearby civilian outposts and travelers of the dangers of each region or its inhabiting phenomena; leaving documents close by in newspaper stands, distributed to various communities, or setting up warning signs, often including a crudely-drawn eye to signify their involvement. To this end, the Ark dispatches wide numbers of its agents across the globe in a particularly open form of employment, individuals and small groups being sent out to spread word of discoveries and collect new information with the expectation that it may be months before the Ark makes port close enough to collect them once again. The Ark has also shown cooperation with Baseline Authority, through means of Project Dominion’s dimensional visualizer, providing insight on various baseline anomalies and how they may behave should they breach containment as they have within the Remnant timeline.

Despite numerous offers to extract Ark personnel to baseline for utilization of their knowledge in ongoing containment, Ark officials have consistently refused them, stating a desire to continue assisting the Remnant timeline through what they see as the birthing pains of a better world.

Dimensionally Inactive/Ambiguous:

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The Refounding Fathers: A religious extremist GoI based in a nation-state located in and around Colorado, USA. The RF centers its ideals on exaggerated views and interpretations of the actions and texts left by the Founding Fathers of the United States. The most important asset owned by this group is 0B4-AI, a powerful technological anomaly believing itself to be former President Barack Obama.

New Zanzibar: Following the ALPHA-Trigger, and subsequent lifting of the veil, Malthusian cells all around the world took up arms due to the believed confirmation of their ideology. Over time, different sects began to coalesce together across the globe to form a series of communes dedicated around the philosophy of Thomas Malthus and the dozens of derivations fueling the varied sects of Malthusian ideology. Over time, these annexations of land and surviving regions of civilization have transformed into a wide collective of city-states societies. Enacting a significant range of behaviors and human modifications consistent with the various baseline Malthus ideologies, such as eugenics and genetic modification. The loosely aligned states of New Zanzibar spread across the globe have adapted to the new nature of the world rather than fighting against it.

Polar Sector-17: Isolated from the bigger impact of the ALPHA-Trigger, GD-ANTC and the Authority Polar Reverse 17 (APR-17) have taken hold of the sunken city. Here, with the natural protection of the elements, they hope to slowly rebuild the Authority as a global force, or at least, try to bring humanity back in action—and if possible, revert the events that led to its current condition. Their success in this task is, however, unclear.

Amazing! Co: Despite all the odds, Amazing! Co keeps functioning in the same manner it had prior to the ALPHA-Trigger, if less unrestricted. Abandoned store shelves and trucks keep being filled by their products every month, although few are brave enough to take them. Merchandise packages sent to the remaining outposts and air-dropped product magazines have become day-to-day occurrences, with no end in sight.

Children of Nihil: Much like their unchanging deities, Nihil cults around the world have stayed consistent, thriving in their new-found freedom and connection with the anomalous. From small caravans to towns around heretical churches, it is not uncommon to see believers of the Suns wander around the remains of the Earth.

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Due to the nature of ALTR-D2AJ, and the hardships that entail information recovery, we are unable to list all existing factions or the fate of GoIs prior or following the ALPHA-Trigger. Should more documents be found that entail their existence, this section will be added upon accordingly.

- Dr. Jenkins B. Graham

Writer's Guide

When writing for remnants, there are a few things one should keep in mind:

The ALPHA-Trigger and the “World Before”

The old world, and its blissful normality, are all gone because of the ALPHA-Trigger. But what is the ALPHA-Trigger? Well, it was an event caused in part by the Authority, as you’ve read in the Overview, that affected all of Remnant’s reality. This is all the information you’ll ever get on it.

No one should explain exactly what the ALPHA-Trigger was, what led to it, or what caused it. In-universe all people who know the exact details regarding the ALPHA-Trigger are dead, or otherwise indisposed enough that the truth isn’t known by anyone. You can write about events set just before it or during it, but never attempt to explain it. This is the single most important taboo when writing for Remnants.

In a writing sense, the ALPHA-Trigger is the universal hand-wave that allows writers to imagine all the weird anomalies that plague this reality, and turn it into its own sandbox. Go wild with your ideas, it’s not like there’s any world left to destroy further.

The World of Remnants

The sky isn’t perpetually brown-colored, nor is most of it a barren wasteland taken from the latest Fallout game. Is the world irreversibly changed? Yes, very much so. The anomalous has become the new normal.

However, this doesn’t mean the world is truly over, people simply need to adapt to it. Be it a group of friends making their way across the New York City rainforest, or an order of scrap knights killing the hordes of demons inhabiting France. Overlooking the remains of Russia, a Pilot worshipper shares a beer or two with winged, angelic gopniks.

While nothing will ever be the same in the world of Remnants, this doesn’t mean that their whole landscape has become empty deserts and depressive rubble. It’s an aesthetic type of apocalypse, and using that to your advantage, rather than simply depicting the Mojave Desert over all of Earth, will help you on the journey to make a good Remnants article.

There’s an inherent dichotomy in depictions of the setting- to some the complete collapse of human society is the end, a brutal conclusion to the human story. To others, it’s a gentle twilight, the slow birthing pains of a new and exotic world full of new opportunities. Both are true, depending on who you ask- never again will the world be like it was, but it could be something new again in the future.

Feel free to write from both perspectives, both in universe and out. A grizzled old member of the Authority or an agent of the Auctoritas Intelligia might consider this the fail state of things, particularly if they’re aware of other timelines where it didn’t happen- they might be resentful or resigned, angry that they failed and violently rebel against the anomalous in their path, or content to see it all fall apart with a satisfying bang.

But to someone young or idealistic, brought into this new reality? They might just see opportunity. Sure, New York may have been transmuted into a jungle, but the communities in the skyscraper treetops are thriving, they’re farming exotic new anomalous plants that do wonderous things, and the infrequent traders wandering in from the south with car trunks full of goods speak of beautiful waterfalls and peaceful creatures as tall as houses that moan wonderful songs as they wander through desolate streets. There’s dangers in this new world- horrible, gruesome dangers brought forth from the darkest nightmares of men- but beauty, too, and the hope for a new world order that’s kinder than the one before, if only humanity steps up and reaches for it.

Time Travel, Dimensions, and You

Be it former agents of the Authority trying to prevent the ALPHA-Trigger from occurring in our universe, the remains of the Research Division opening rifts in time and space to send documents and refugees to our reality, or fools trying to return back in time before their universe went down the sewer, messing with the fabric of reality has become a key element of the world.

From alternate versions of friendly faces, portals with desperate huddled masses seeking new homes, or a care package from the Ark, writers have a lot at their disposal when seeking ways to make our two realities interact with each-other. This is also the main way in which documents are acquired into the database.

In short, people have a lot of options when it comes to writing. You can play anomalous politics with the factions, write about Authority studying this reality, write about documents written WITHIN the Remnants universe by its inhabitants, or make tales about cowboys killing demon lords. Creative freedom is the key-word within this reality, and we hope you make good use of it.

And as for formatting, there isn’t anything set in stone. Do whatever you want, or take examples from already-existing articles. Good luck!

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Remnants RPCs

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RPC-314 - Designated Survivor
RPC-549 - Broken Glass and Twisted Metal
RPC-730 - The Altered Beast
RPC-884 - Liberty Walks
RPC-948 - One last time

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