Immortal Vindication

From left to right, these are my vampire and werewolf characters:

Nex Atra [link]
Accalia Fiore [link]
Velganos Venora [link]
Syrena Lynn [link]
Corbin Crane [link]



Synopsis
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The year is 2210, two hundred years into the future. Until the mid 22nd century, governments and ordinary people alike around the world denied the existence of vampires, werewolves, and “creatures of the night.” Though, admittedly, their numbers diminished greatly around the industrial revolution, and both species nearly went extinct in the twentieth century, these ancient beings have been steadily repopulating the world since then.

Feuds over territory and otherwise bad blood between the two species caused the infamous war with one another thousands of years ago, when they reigned over much of the world openly. Remnants of this ongoing strife still exist to this day, though much of the reasoning behind it has been long forgotten. Vampire clans formed to counter the powerful lycanthrope packs spreading exponentially. Soon, it was impossible for governments to deny or hide the truth of these feared creatures, as sightings were becoming a regular occurrence, and gruesome maulings or neck bites were steadily getting to be all-too-common causes of death.

In 2145, the President of the United States made a public announcement concerning not only the existence of vampires and lycans (as they had come to be called), but the worldwide threat they presented. To combat these hostile rivaling creatures, which the ordinary man all too often became a casualty to or otherwise was forced to join one of the two sides, top engineers and scientists from all around the world cooperating together, completely funded by their countries, worked to build some of the most technologically impressive robots the world has seen. Considering the amount of androids and bots working and coexisting with humanity today and in constant production, being manufactured in over 50 countries, these new automatons are viewed as nothing less than the future of robotic technology. Programmed to respond directly to the ever-growing vampire and lycan menace, these formidable, brutal, and merciless humanoid automatons have but one mission: purge the world of any threat of vampires and lycans.

Much to the horror and surprise of humanity, over the years these robotic half-breed hunters have been released on their annihilation operation, they, being the greatest pieces of technology, have “evolved,” in a sense, to extend their function beyond their given implication. Able to problem solve as a basic form of their intellect, these automatons, soon referred to simply as “Night Soldiers,” came to the principal conclusion that, in order to prevent vampires or lycans from ever existing and spreading across the Earth, human beings must be completely wiped from the planet. Logically and realistically, this is the most sure-fire way the Soldiers realized they could carry out their programming to full completion. Thus began the long-anticipated cybernetic/organic war known as The War Against Night. Not only were vampires and lycans being hunted by the ruthless Night Soldiers, but now everyday people, civilians and the military alike, were all being targeted and attacked. A blood bath quickly flooded the nations, as more and more automatons wirelessly spread their logical and extinction-inevitable idea. Humanity had created their greatest and most powerful weapon in history, and now it had turned against them.

It very rapidly became clear that vampires and lycans would need to set aside whatever petty differences they had in order to concentrate on combating the Night Soldiers. Once the Night Soldiers turned against people though, it was almost comical and ironic at first, until years of their bloody slaughtering carried on, and vampires and lycans were forced to witness the deaths of people that they never imagined being killed, even by their own kind – family, friends, loved ones, children… No longer were they even able to sit by and mock the humans for the problem they themselves were responsible for. It was becoming ever clearer that, if something weren’t done soon, all human life would be wiped from the Earth in a matter of time.

Deciding it wise to put aside their pride and their hatred, the lycans and vampires stood against the Night Soldiers as humanity’s best line of defense. Today, in 2210, all satire aside, vampires, lycans, and humans all must work together if they want to stand any chance against the greatest threat that they have ever had to face.