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| − | =The World of Blame!=
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| − | The manga Blame is set far in the future, inside a vast City that has grown wildly beyond the intentions of its creators. It consists of level upon level of massive, chaotic construction, seperated by impenetrable layers of nanomachine-reinforced sections known as megastructure. Within the megastructure, massive Builders work tirelessly to construct and expand the City in a manner that once was planned, but that has now degenerated into random chaos.<br>
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| − | *Levels are enormous, dozens of miles high at least. Width is unknown, but possibly hundreds or thousands of miles.<br>
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| − | *The entire City has no natural ecosystem. The world is saturated with nanomachines that eliminate all microorganisms, maintain living tissue, and transmit energy. Manipulation of these nanomachines through interfacing with the fundamental OS that runs them is the basis of all weapons and abilities in the Blame!verse.
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| − | *The Netsphere - Home of the Governing Authority, the Safeguard, as well as the portion of Humanity that uploaded itself out of our world. Accessed via Net Terminal Genes, which are all but extinct in humans existing in realspace within the City.<br>
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| − | *It is hinted that the Net Sphere's basic infrastructure resides within the megastructure between levels.<br>
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| − | =Tentative Timeline=
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| − | * Present - 2200: First synthetic humans created. Immortal individuals detected in the population. Intercontinental Mooring Cable constructed. Mars settlement established.
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| − | * 2272: Data Recovery Foundation founded
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| − | * 3000: Toha Heavy Industries headquarters self-destructs, leaving behind synthetic human prototypes and their AI handlers. Speculation: headquarters was not destroyed but teleported into space using Gravity Furnace technology.
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| − | * 3005: Members of DRF explorer team encounter the lethal, zombifying N5S virus on the Mars settlement, which has been isolated from earth for over 700 years. The team's bodies are used as vectors to transmit the virus over Earth. This is the start of the Complete Humanity Conversion Project, by which the DRF hopes to turn the Earth's population into zombie drones while a chosen elite escapes Earth through the Intercontinentel Mooring Cable. Hypothesis: The DRF based the virus partially on the immortal's genome in the hope of accelerating and controlling the rapid regeneration properties imparted by the virus.
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| − | * 3005: DRF subsidiary organization Public Health Department leader General Narain attempts to transfer his conciousness into an artificial body created using N5S data, but is stopped by DRF overlord Nyaldee. His attempts to reverse the zombification process of the N5S virus using data reverse-engineered by scientist Dr Wildenstein under his control fail when Nyaldee orders the release of a "reverse imaging polymer", a highly mutagenic compound able to meld flesh and machine (speculation: later used as base for megastructure construction fluid).
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| − | * 3005 - 4000: Megastructure overgrows earth. Netsphere developed. N5S and its derivatives are supressed by the government, but application to "download" structures from the net is developed (speculation: by the governing authority that would later form the basis for Safeguard) and stolen by the Order (speculation: perhaps an offshoot of Wildensteins/Narains faction).
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| − | ** Note: Recent statements by author Tsutomu Nihei indicate that Biomega is not meant to share continuity with Blame!, et al., despite presence of Toha and other similarities. Timeline should be modified accordingly.
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| − | *** Speculation: While Blame! and Biomega do not take place in the same universe, Toha Heavy Industries is the same entity in both manga. Gravity furnace technology has been shown to be capable of facilitating travel into parallel universes.
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| − | * 7000: Megastructure has overgrown the Moon. War between Safeguard and the Order continues. Humans begin to migrate into the netsphere to escape the conflict.
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| − | * 15000+: Events of Blame!
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| − | * 20000+: Events of NSE
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| | =Factions and Races= | | =Factions and Races= |
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| | *Assault Rifle: (used by human soldiers in V1 against SG)<br> | | *Assault Rifle: (used by human soldiers in V1 against SG)<br> |
| | *Minigun: (wielded by bald cyborg in V1) Rapid fire ballistic weapon with cycling barrels.<br> | | *Minigun: (wielded by bald cyborg in V1) Rapid fire ballistic weapon with cycling barrels.<br> |
| − | *Laser: Can be multilinked. Emits a small coherent beam of photons.<br> | + | *Laser: Can be multilinked. Emits a small cohesive beam of photons.<br> |
| | *Heavy Laser: (wielded by a human against a Watcher in V1) Emits a very strong beam.<br> | | *Heavy Laser: (wielded by a human against a Watcher in V1) Emits a very strong beam.<br> |
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| | =Notable Terrain= | | =Notable Terrain= |
| − | *Holographic: (v9p154,156) A pitfall can look like a stair step, a doorway can look like a wall. These are possibly not holographs at all but nanomachines made to look like solid surfaces until stepped on, and can fool even advanced sensors. | + | *Holographic: (v9p154,156) A pitfall can look like a stair step, a doorway can look like a wall. These advanced holographs can trick even cybernetic eyes. |
| − | *Emergency Partition: (v4p131) Utilized in order to quickly seal off an area. Characters skilled in electronic warfare can trigger emergency partition protocols to delay or hinder pursuers. | + | *Emergency Partition: (v4p131) Utilized in order to quickly seal off an area. |
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| | =Random Encounters= | | =Random Encounters= |
