DEVBLOG #1 - THE ORIGIN OF THE HARVEST

In a remote corner of the Universe, in a time beyond history, there is a place unlike any other. This place is known for many as O’Ree-Jin.

• O’Ree-Jin contains the remains of one of the most advanced civilizations that have inhabited the Universe, and probably the first one to do it.

• This ancient planet is inaccessible for most of its existence due to immensely powerful currents of energy that coalesce on the outer layers of the atmosphere, creating the most astounding vista in the galaxy.

• Its orbit is a melting pot of vessels, radars, satellites and space stations from different eras, brought there by the greatest galactic civilizations across the Universe, waiting patiently for the planet’s atmosphere to open (not unlike a sort of cold war).

O’Ree-Jin is peculiar for all those reasons but, most of all, it has become a mythical peregrination place because its cortex exudes the most precious substance of the cosmos. Some call this protean substance the blood of God, others call it the essence of life, and some even say that it is the very fabric of reality in its primal form. No matter how they call it, every one of the orbiting civilizations wants to amass it, process it, and build whatever their imagination dims possible. This substance grants elongated life, benign, and powerful mutations. It may replicate any form, be it organic or synthetic. All in all, it is the clay from what everything else is built.

As tends to happen with all important things in existence, the acquisition of this substance comes associated with a most dangerous path. The planet is a zealous protector of this substance, but it may reward those foolish enough to try to brave it. The planet opens itself at undetermined intervals and for an undetermined time span. These little windows of time become hectic with activity as bands of warriors and adventurers lunge themselves to the planet’s surface and battle to the death to attain as much of the substance as possible. These warriors are among the most exalted heroes of each civilization. They build short-lived alliances between them and become agents of death and chaos as they attain the substance for themselves, becoming more powerful than they ever expected to be.

The substance extraction is peculiar as the best way to conserve it is through living tissue. The warriors, or Breachers as they call themselves, become a living canister full of the all empowering substance. Along O’Ree-Jin ’s surface, Breachers find vestiges of essence extraction machinery (EEM) still functioning, becoming this the main focus of their harvesting. But a faster, more brutal, and nastier way of substance gathering is harvesting the bodies of opposing Breachers. That has been happening for centuries, and that will be the way for centuries to come. This ritualistic activity has been named as The Harvest.