Lunette

Lunette is an idyllic mad max style hamlet in the coastal mountains overlooking a cyberpunk city with harsh holographic signage; amid ruin filled forests, a salt-water lake connected to the ocean at high tide; and rolling mountainsides and rivers. The noodle burger fast food at the end of the town overlooks a cyberpunk skyline off in the distance.

Mostly tiny homes; at first shanties built over an abandoned freight station and highway; plus cargo container tiny homes; now prefabs; plus homes patched with the same cheap plastic and metal sheeting. Actual houses are those abandoned in the 90s housing all multigenerational squatters.

Traincars have been converted into infrastructure like libraries; bathhouses; and even a bar; the trading company train station is now a school for classes of kids of all ages taught by local experts; while the clinic is a train-depot warehouse with an auto-doctor run by a coledge dropout.

Large megacorp farms surround the town of 300 people;  w/many gays; sustained by nomads who come for the harvests. Many shops are located along the highway ‘mainstreet; along with Fvđ’s hello-hello food mart and charging station; closest to a town’s grocers.

The locals supplement income with internet businesses enabled by drone shipping. Fishing is also an income source; highest paid too. Rusted mills, rural houses; along the highway; along with a broken down warehouse kids use for raves and underground fighting.

Ruined industrial machines in Beck’s junkyard; and a small rose bud shaped alien temple is located beneath the newer constructions on the hill; with some trees in a stone circle to the side; central dias being a teleporter; walls and foundations; broken pillars/arches in the woods.

Most homes have solar panels and broadband antennas for power and internet; and the town is powered by a makeshift solar farm; the reservoir or cesspit are 15 years past their maintenance lifetime yet aren’t updated because they’re vital.

Huge water towers are common throughout the town; along with mini-solar collector towers. Sanitation is better than TTL norm; but still IRL subpar; food is still processed foodstuff but used in home cooking.

The climate is warm-mediterranean; dry summers with strong heatwaves; a week of snow during the rainy winter; sometimes white christmases; foggy and rainy; lots of strong wind from the Fraser valley across the sea.

Climate dominated by barrier mountains in the south and the bannon sea fed with arctic water by the ceres gyer. Local vegetation is fern and palms, deciduous trees; few pines; abundant colorful exotic flowers, many tall grasses, and abundant moss. Vbt and Nanu are security guards acting as town police.

Retail

Pizza Overlord, Fryer King, Fro-Yo Mama, Cup O’ Joe, along with the Noodle Burger diner overlooking the giant cyberpunk city in the distance; Fvđ’s Hello Hello food mart and charging station is the closest to a grocery store; and many people have their goods shipped here since there's no personal addresses anymore.

The Laiott Trading Company has been converted into a school; where local experts come to teach kids mixed into classes of all ages; parents are also often teachers.

Some of these businesses have been in Lunette since it was a trading post for a logging company; many others were built in the 60s when the projects went in. An old warehouse is the hospital; with only a few beds; and a single autodoctor unit aided by a self-taught doctor.

One of the train cars serves as a lockerroom to a public bath; filled with hot water; another acts as a library of books that rotate through town; others have become homes to locals; often inspired by tiny homes.

The bar; a gay bar; is a train car; with a deck for dining and dancing; they serve minors food and lets them dance; but no alcohol until 21.

Humanity

Humans are the dominant species on techniverse earth; cartoon visages; t/re generally more advanced than IRL but totally idiotic. T/ir biology is more lenient than IRL, a/physics simpler. Humans are creations of a genius original humanity.

Humans

Homo-sapiens are 2d primates from Earth; related to monkeys, t/ir more primitive cousins. Made of chemicals; 4/5' tall, muscular, matured at 18, rugged; n/bisohen. Mostly hairless except for scalps; +facial a/pubic in males. L/s of 6/8d; mortal. 100ks genes; half shared w/earth plants; 96% w/rats; yet Op̄tr mDNA. Walk/run Ani.

Robust; adapting to anything n/fatal; a throwback t/ t/ir role as miners. Some hu/s a/ courageous/badass; entertaining. Interact ani kiss/hug/sex/pickup/wear/etc.

Idiotic a/slovenly; the smartest a/s oblivious. Tribal, inhospitable; o/semi sentient/ sapient. Vices include junk/fast food/porn. Complex, curious b/; adept tool users; compensation f/limits. Dioecious 'biology'; incels. Unused agility a. T/prefer material /rational pseudo-science. Accident prone. Ruby Plasm. IRL aware= paranoid.

Predatory; bipedal/nocular 4.0 vision/hearing; bionic compensation f/frailties. One o/t few Earth species t/s red. Omnivores; adventurous pallets. Can't see thru water/ fog, only sun/moonlight. Humans tattoo a/pierce t/ir bodies as art; oft ugly.

Humans o/s stupidity in t/ir ancestors; w/o changing now. Youths enjoy novelty; but humans exist only i/t present; trad's oft' abandoned f/new fads as posers. Confused.

T/can survive a while w/o vital organs/indefinitely w/only half pair; vein popping/ seen offensive odors/sounds; blinking only a/a social cue. Eyes are brown/green/ gray; blue marks Jsu lineage; skins' muted earthtones; n/ red/pink/yellow; hairs' brilliant earthtones or dyed. Cloth’s bright synthetics; auto-tailored. Bad at math.

Obsessed w/gold a/gems; t/re easily distracted by food, flashing light, or buttons. Human’s operate t/ir economies on unsustainable-boom/bust cycles; like t/ir enviro; prefer democracy by seniles. Impressions of strength/alertness/agility; yet expressions reveal the dullness of the species. Talents’ rare; oft margin/.

Social; hallucinate if too alone/depressed; a full hu/mind can be stored on a blu-ray/4 record s/CDs i/t 90s. T/decay in old age; b/c decrepit/pale; oft’ mean a/w lazy. TV galvanized a/age of war; t/net grifting.

Technically advanced; rapid progress since the 19th century; oceanic electric paddleboats as early a/t 1850s; aerial dogfights ‘87; deviced f/radio. The last few decades of progress strained society; always cultures disagreed o/m everything; b/n civil conflicts h/balkanized t/ir once great empires.

Stupidly blind to corruption, human leaders have bizarre/decadent authoritarian beliefs. T/ hu/ize pets, tools; even forces; leading to strange object worship. Human brains a/viscera are 2½d f/folded 2d.

Only conspiracy theorists a/a few shut-ins display awareness comparable to IRL; t/ir neuroses can lead to idiocy on topics. Once 'proved', t/won’t disprove s/t. Endurance hunters; hu/hate hard work but n/i for contentment. TTL humans a/a exaggerated IRL stereotypes. Dominance based hierarchy; brutal.

Xenophobic; TV galvanized war by exposing alt lifestyles; humans demonize aliens w/ t/ir worst traits or incels fetishize them w/ t/ir 'best'. Little s/n affinity; oft’ weird sex magic; t/m fine ingredients tho.

The Techniverse

Humans come from a dimension called the techniverse; which encompasses Earth/Urth; where the Op̄tr advanced pre-human hominids into ‘atlantis’; giant 16’ humanoid Jsu who preceded human civ by about 8.5k years as bullies; enslaving and experimenting on the refined humanity.

The Techniverse bears a cartoon visage; biology is more lenient; a/physics simpler; it’s a large but finite expanding cosmos where a small percentage of mass belongs to stars a/ planets; Earth is located in the milky way, a/ tho n/ all the stars are the same, constellations are. Time’s compressed; hu/s seem slower.

Earth w/in this reality is vastly different from the real Earth; different climates, continents, a/historical events; yet humans remain the dominant species; a/all real world cultures a/ nations exist; under different circumstances a/acting in surprising ways; t/ir history parallels ours. Culture began in the fertile crescent of hyperborea; Thule to germans.

14k years ago, Op̄tr spliced t/ir language into hominids; but wiped out the giant hu/Jsu in BD.7,568; the last interbred w/ hu/s as royalty, giving them culture a/civilization. >6.25K years ago Op̄tr again colonized the planet a/ taught man math a/ astronomy, commissioning cities near caves a/ sinkholes; a history taught in every skool; but mostly ignored. Hu/ leaders a/i contact with Op̄tr vassals+  others.

Hu civilization spans the past 5.5k years; but only in the last 2c have t/ deviced mechanization f/ radios. Earth is otherwise the same mass; orbits the same sun; a/ is surrounded by only visually different planets a/moons. Moon=planet b/ orbiting a planet i/s o/a star.

Earth is more advanced in this universe; w/heiman gravy; genomics; feeling bionics; VR, holograms, hard light; a/cold-RLF fusion; electric cars/planes. T/ve eliminated global hunger a/guaranteed food quality; the internet/ electricity a/freshwater; ubiquitous global utilities.

The human population is around 3.2bill c’19; a/t quality of life i/m higher; except in developed nations which are less stable/secure than ever in history.

Culture

Human cultures are divided on nearly every issue you can be divided on; however; murder, rape, a/outside communist countires; theft, arson, incest, a/pedophilia; are generally; but n/a frowned upon.

Lip service to swinger culture a/taboo; but pass over gay rights. Schizoids c/t tell t/difference b/t quirky and antisocial; rule abandoned social media. Humans are purely dominance hierarchical.

Lip service to ancient religions or pseudo-sciences but generally humans worship celebrities no matter how bizarre or sinister t/ir behavior. Some cultures worship 'cash'; valueless tokens based solely on credit of t/ir leaders, leading to disaster when refined to e-cash based on worthless floating points.

T/ eat a wide variety of food; adventurous cuisine; now mostly suspicious processed; low quality for IRL; is the staple globally; but has eliminated world hunger; sodas were the first megacorps. Polluted food a/ water is also a human standard; exotic mystery meats historically caused t/ir plagues.

Hu/mystery meats a/roots a/t basis of t/food supply; m/p in factories f/cultures/compilers; soda w/t first megacorps; t/ir nuclear war leading to unpersoning o/t first two; n/a conspiracy.

Since the ‘50s; humans have become more anxious about alien life; assumed more advanced; but t/ve ‘secularized’ a/deny t/ir own alien origins. Hu/s reformulate religious tenets into pseudoscience like the big bang then strut around like t/just thought of something new. Vegan ban as antisocial l/ switchblades.

Fascinated by tools; inventions of prodigal yet equally oblivious hu/; those with IRL awareness have idiotic neuroses from being labeled insane or are left to rot as gamers.

The 19th century saw the beginning of endless technical progress; yet most "advanced technology" is prone to catastrophic failures a/errors; nothing works right. Everything does everything; not well tho. Human tech has no shelf-life; being 90% recycled hardware from the early/mid 00’s fabbed t/g.

Key genomic breakthroughs in the 7/80s bootstrapped the end of world hunger a/ global poverty. Humans are extremely xenophobic; trends hide it w/ pity. T/re barely literate in t/ir own languages; a/ rarely can fend for themselves; but curious; the tools made by prodigies keep them alive.

Human culture is largely tribal; just n/ w/bloodlines. Ties are bizarre a/ confusing; so are competitions between humans; including the oft competition over w/i more unfortunate or discriminated against.

The ‘20s are suffering the decades long after effects of t/ir third world war; a nuclear a/ conventional conflict between developed nations over peacekeeping efforts decimated t/ir 3 global superpowers. Underpopulated/water w/debt.

Altered geo-pressures flooded many coastal cities post-war. Work indig; rich flee i/t space; Adults d/t a/m; no family w/o mob w/f; corrupt f/shuttle; riot police e/w; drug/alcohol rampant; suicides. Hu/s m/due; t/irs s/wonder.

Since splitting atoms; humans are divided between communism; confucius economics, a/ capitalism; greedy markets. Neither ideology appeals to its targets; but once split leadership almost perfectly in half. Humans aren't smart enough to make either work; tho. Sanitation is substandard; cesspools in the center of even wealthy colonies.

Every corporate conglomerate seeks global domination through ads; micro dramas playing insecurities. Politicians mostly sign contracts a/ make speeches for corporate relations. Repetitive songs use forced rhymes m/o than not; pop is amazingly sexual for an/or b/o incel culture. Netmods=incels; h/n hu/rights.

Human civilization was born around the fertile crescent region of hyperborea; sumerians; then spread to eurasia by trade; hesperia by colonization; the Americas were an independent development but later colonized. All worship the Op̄tr in some form; b/h exaggerated them f/ ancient aliens to magic sky fairies.

Almost all human philosophy is greek by way of rome; or confucianist by insular chinese; modern human culture is heavily influenced by the storytelling of a chinese daughter empire; Japan in west hesperia; a/ increasingly by eastern hyperborean a/ american storytelling; corporate propaganda favored b/t dumb.

Dress is casual; descendants of 50s hesperian/american undergarments, w/ clothing was purely formal a/too layered. Formal costumes vary across cultures but always alongside moderne hesperian formalwear. Simple armor; dress regalia.

Crying a/singing media; lowest denominator; collapsed USA’s global media empire. Its fans are the epitome of the teenage boy/bachelor stereotype; smelly/unbathed/takeout.

Cramped/abandoned cities; debt e/w; people live in hovels/shanties; tent cities i/s warehouses; b/w farmers markets; chic staples. Cargo a/prefab tiny homes; rural squatters; cheap/livable w/modern materials; tho TTL standards are low. 

Car ownership is less common; but was once the staple of independence; so was home ownership in the new world; humans still awkwardly propagate the species. Humans only blink when stunned, confused or flirting. Preoccupied w/porn; architecture’s vaguely genitalia inspired; compensation is common. TTL Humans embody exaggerated IRL stereotypes/generalizations.

Generally; people have become inhospitable w/ progress; hu/are generally dumb reactionaries; t/re less sentient than IRL; reflected in simplistic cultural refiguga; mass media. In the 21st century most is just ads. Shows/movies a/j gif strings w/soundtracks/bytes; games typical phone/NES arcades.

Gaming meanwhile promotes n/just hand-eye coordination; needed for such a clumsy a/ inagile people; but makes gamers better people; stigmatized out of xenophobia as incipient terrorists a/ rapists; games have the most complex storylines as a result of interactivity; but still pale to IRL.

Language

Humans speak many languages; a gift from t/ir Op̄tr creators; inventing mythology to explain the variety. Swears are t/ir curses. Op̄tr can learn any of these from TV in 2 weeks.

Humans were given writing/math/astronomy by the Op̄tr; communication relies heavily on simple pictograms; emojis a/memes. Language has become more casual over time.

Grammar's inconsistent; humans offset t/ir limited vocabularies w/ compound verb/nouns; often dumb ones. Science vocabulary is especially limited; relying on dumb metaphors. Vocabulary has expanded over time; modern humans are the most literate ever. Decimal base 12/60.

Technology

Human technology is electronic; most advanced devicments are hardly functional. Holograms have taken over for transparent LCD flatscreens; a/ environmental holos hide dilapidated buildings a/replace public works. Humans are addicted to these flashy technologies; a/ t/ir puzzle/casino gotcha games.

VR technology is fairly advanced; coils provide entanglement AR in place of older cells; a/can provide STL when wrapped around the head. Humans however stigmatize gamers as potential terrorists/rapists out of irrational fear.

Social media is important in everyday life f/ antisocials; but takes the form of AR a/ second life where people work, fight/sports w/avatars; a life you control. Females choose mates using it.

Holocinemia+TV. Genomics advanced enough to trial a/error Op̄tr genes; cure world hunger, deviced nanotech; created artificial brains a/led to stacked quantum pattern boards. Computing vastly exceeds hu/mental capacity; but AIs use it to be lazier than hu/.

Personality transplant AIs are standard software; but use t/ir intelligence to be lazier, a/often develop idiotic neuroses; t/re genuinely sapient like IRL though; a/burdened by t/ir creator’s stupidity.

Cold fusion lit farms 24/7 for crops that never stop growing a/bubbling vats of nutrient-to-meats; + desalination plants; water is still polluted. Cesspools show t/ lack of environmentalism despite t/cries of neo-babylon.

Heiman hover cargoships; saving the global economy. It’s all GUIs; hacking is knowing w/t click; passcodes, backdoors/fake IDs. Guns use EMPs instead of gunpowder. Heim-super EM breaks/redirects gravity/accel. Tech i/n ergo.

The Americas use all solar; south eurasia, tidal; the rest all wind power for infrastructure; powerful batteries a/superconducting parts sustain this green energy system.

Human prodigies proved consciousness; the fluctlight; developed colonies on t/ir moon/spin-habs in orbit; others are regarded as conspiracists. Spaceplane travel standard w/cloned limb a/organs; bionics can feel, life support is uncomfy a/l in wheelchairs. Bionic therapies; EM m/mech f/drug resistance.

The human economy was heavily inflated by its superpowers; the resulting collapse led to t/ir WW3/4; economics/war are simpler; more abundance; broke nations can afford particle accelerators; superweapons/ space travel. Omnifab uses laser/bosers to molecular 3d print.

With global synchronized default ‘08; people only survive using the global internet a/ drones to conduct business. ‘23 USD can buy a pizza for just 23 dollars; yet salaries are about the same as IRL ‘10; a tiny home for 19k; or an underwater micro-mcmansion for 3mill; crammed w/o yards.

Germany/etc 9th century colonies/USA etc 18th. Aerial dogfights 1st in 1887 b/t hesper/ russia. WW1/2 in 1905/63 b/t ger/usa; US civil 1910. WW3/4 b/t china/usa a/ usa/mex-ATO/asia 1998/2019.

Technology is cheap enough for people outside the luxurious colonies t/h latter gen stuff; but current gen is highly inflated w/no resale value despite being must have every few weeks.

Studying phases of the moon a/ tides was the first human science; though only greeks applied math to it; a/ until the 16th century; only the american aborigines could use math to predict eclipses; many people don’t know about moon landings.

Technology can now; as of the 21st century; sustain auto-warfare w/vi spider tanks a/ drone aircraft; mercenaries as needed. Many systems have begun to imitate the ergonomics of nature; especially robots, boats, a/submarines; while modern planes have backwards wings a/slimmer profiles.

Humans have perfect optic technologies like IR reflective/absorptive paints; used in modern insulation; or Radio for stealth; + hard light holograms. Interface’s a/ poor a/ ad-filled. Bionics u/metal strips f/ergo-movement.

Science is stigma/fetishized; humans h/a strong tendency to devalue the hu/ condition. Human limitation theory reduces human dignity t/t of machines /beasts thru transhu/; humans genuinely believe t/re smart enough to correct God's 'mistakes' t/ can’t tho.

Bootstrap space development was slow until national bankruptcies of the 80s led to a global corporate takeover of the sciences; resulting in cold (Raw lambda) fusion; a/SuEM to redirect/break accel/gravity; AI, cloning/ bionics, holo; AR/VR; su-columb fields; space elevators; launch loops; hard light. Lithium Mining/child slaves are a controversial topic. Split space-evs to near every country o/Urth; 10gees tho.

Climate change is n/a cultural factor; but the internet a/ cell phones have been since the 70s, where t/competed w/Minutel using tape-deck server farms.

Particle accelerators power Argentina w/muon fusion; cold fusion, gravity electronics, hard light, holograms, a/space colonies were all brought about by profit minded scientists. Space elevators, lunar amusement parks; space hotels; are all normal 21st century technologies. Longev/treat; recipients b/c birdlike senile hu/s b/c live to 150.

Mars landing in 2024 a/colony in 2032; mission to Jupiter in 2026 established humans as spacers despite idiocy a/many accidents. Dumbi/Genui agree; n/midwits. Garbage i/t satellites via S/Evs.

Humans divorced science a/ magic just before the dawn of the 20th century; but limited magi-tech; imitating the Jsu; is hidden in plain sight; like astrology linked magic circle particle accelerators. Spellbooks take the form of modern laptops. Human math is often wrong; ‘dark’ numbers save t/ir theories.

Physics generally only requires algebra in TTL; Optr first taught humans non-linear algebra; a topic still mostly taught at coledge or AP skool; advanced calculus is higher level than even most TTL genui deal w/.

Op̄tr; TTL geniuses can generally complete human Skool by 10; Coledge by 13; even Medical Skool by 14. That humans do well enough is a testimony to how easily understood TTL history, physics, a/biology are to master.

More aware a/intelligent humans believe t/ir species is evolving into a less emotionally a intellectually sophisticated but more technically advanced form; others point out vocabulary a/literacy haven't been higher before as a corollary.

Evas

Evangelions are giant 16/26' tall cyborg mecha; piloted from protruding back hump cockpit inside the chest. T/re controlled by neuro-sync. T/are clones of the Adams; the Op̄tr’s prototype humans; preserved members of the Jsu race. T/ve powerful munitions a/melee-energy weapons; w/ coulomb barriers.

Equipped w/superconducting systems; powerful batteries; Heiman floatsys; Some fold into cars; but are more agile w/feet; Evas replaced tank a/fighter warfare.

Evas resemble superman-kaiju heros; developed secretly in the 80s; deployed in ‘08. Many are piloted by bastardized cloned Op̄tr homunculi; using controls resembling a motorcycle; or a backwards swept chair; w/holo for the pilots. Some have 4 arms; o/r wet light based.

Evas can be modded w/ Op̄tr tech; w/ RLF microreactors; Virtual particle loop light/wings i/s of floats; + optic blasts; coulomb barrier+antibarriers; a/enhanced neuro-sync w/ Op̄tr pilots.

Some are totally robotic; used in industry as workers i/p of forklifts/cranes. Evas can be standard cargo; Arkbirds; 4 590' tall eva aircraft w/ railguns/Op̄tr-type beams/coulomb +floats b/n Op̄tr RLF reactors.