In this world there are millions of people each of whom have differing opinions and ideals that clash or that might be compatible enough to work with one another. These people usually see the world one of three ways either everything is good, bad, or one large gray area that they deem to operate in however they see fit but no matter how impassive these people believe they are they inevitably lean one way or another. These bonds of morality work as shackles for people no matter how strong or weak they are and are an easy way to categorize and ultimately find a weakness for them.
This story is the account of an extraordinary young man who is destined to shatter the notion of morality and view the world in his own unique way forging his path for a future he wishes to achieve. Although currently he doesn't really know what future he wants to see become a reality. So in order to understand what he wants this young man is evaluating the past of this world as he has learned about it over the years.
Firstly when the abilities of people began to appear in 2045 riots threw all of the worlds governments into disarray and millions of people lost their lives in the ensuing chaos. It was a full five years before the United States government quelled the multiple militias and other criminal organizations that sprouted during the initial chaos. Thats not even factoring in how long other countries took to stabilize themselves, some sooner than the U.S. some much later.
But one prevailing occurrence miraculously happened each country that rose over the crime rates unanimously created one or two united military forces. The United States created the United Task force of America (UTA) for supers with combative abilities and the United Technical Devision of America (UTDA) for supers with abilities that can gather information or support combative supers, it was also the predominant branch of the military non supers would join back when there were more people with no abilities, but somewhere along the way people without abilities became more and more scarce.
Of course when world governments began re-establishing themselves the decades old grudges that these countries had resumed as anyone would expect them to, this resulted in the same ultimately petty squabbles that the world had before extraordinary abilities. This ultimately resulted in two of the first countries that recovered, the United States and the new Russia Federation, to try asserting dominance over one another and spark man kinds age old practice. War.
This war plunged the world into chaos that people had thought they had moved past when finally quelling the chaos of internal strife. This open hostility ultimately resulted in World War 3 and lines were drawn in the sand making countries choose sides. Millions more died in this struggle that spanned another fifteen years.
The end of the war wasn't decided by peace talks or anyone decisively winning the war, ultimately it was ended by a single battle between two immensely powerful supers clashing on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Not much is known about how the fight progressed as harshly as it did but what is clear about it is that any soldiers that tried approaching the two as they fought died almost immediately, so both sides decided they would send forces around the battle and deem the area an instant no mans land.
The battle between these two soldiers grew so ferocious that at the climax of the fight both of the combatants abilities clashed in what can only be described as an apocalyptic cataclysm and if not for an unseen force that minimized the destruction the world may have well been swallowed by a black hole. This of course doesn't mean much as the resulting catastrophe changed the face of human society as a whole.
To better understand the scope of this fight one of the combatants was a well known soldier in the Russian Federation Artyom Abramov he was widely known as Atomic Artyom the spacial user who could control most facets of space. Of course this means the soldier he fought must have been just as fantastic and well known but surprisingly not much is known about the man who fought Artyom to not only a stand still but ultimately killed Artyom when their opposing powers clashed in a final blast that leveled over twenty miles of the Ukraine.
Not only did this blast annihilate miles of land but the clash resulted in a multifaceted temporal distortion that upon further study was found to connect to multiple points on our planet.
These networks were ultimately harnessed as a quick mode of transport for the wealthy. And then it became a quick access deployment method for military forces but that would come a few years later.
While the portals were still being used by normal wealthy people a single family went into one portal and never emerged from the destination portal. However, after four to five days the mother and daughter of the family came through another portal screaming and crying about monsters and the rest of their family being dead. This of course caused the military in every country to investigate each portal they had access to.
Months passed and not a single occurrence similar to the first was reported until one routine patrol through a portal reported back days after entering and what they reported back unsettled the leaders of the worlds governments. These one in a million portals that seemed exceedingly dangerous only appeared in rare instances. These portals would lead to entirely other planets throughout the solar system that housed many varieties of creatures both dangerous and passive. These entities were unanimously called Planetarium Creaturae or Planetary Creatures. Of course these terms were to long or convoluted for the average person so eventually soldiers who began fighting them started calling them mobs, mini bosses, and bosses like designations that would be used in video games.
After the world learned of these creatures and the worlds they inhabited they slowly but surely began annexing worlds, and inevitable advancements in science allowed people with similar spacial abilities to Artyom's to open more portals to these worlds so that travel could become easier.
Over time, and as decades passed governments stopped true outward physical acts of aggression to fight one another and turned their sights on conquering planet after planet, before long humanity had a foothold on four planets each with at least two or three major cities established. Humanity had finally reached a golden age of advancement and technology.
But as is normally the case when something seems to good to be true it usually is. On a day like any other one of the Russian Federation inhabited worlds with the second largest human city was completely overtaken by what humans first mistakenly identified as demons due to their normally red skin, pitch black horns, and prehensile tails, but that couldn't have been farther from the truth. These beings had come from a temporary portal and these creatures had abilities similar to humans. It seemed that their abilities were far more developed on average than a normal humans, and unlike humans these monsters had no sense of morality or sympathy for humans they slaughtered. To them each and every kill were merely enemy combatants and shown no mercy.
Humans ultimately deemed them Homo Diabolus or just Diabolus it says much about humans that they could so easily classify an alien race with a term very close to their own self classification. Many fights have broken out between Humans and Diabolus forces but it has only been a recent development that humans have started to be able to join forces and fight against one enemy unifying Earth and its people.
The year is 2125 and now that Humanity has banded together military schools in every major continent and cities on other worlds have sprouted up left and right to recruit able bodied and promising youths who either seek to pursue a military career or have no alternative. The latter is where we find this stories protagonist, he has no family to speak of and is currently about to begin attending Military School for High School aged teens. His name is Jericho Reynolds.