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Post by Siscarm on Aug 29, 2009 19:38:32 GMT -8
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Hello.,
My name is no longer important. This process will go on for long after I am dead, and I do not have much time to dabble in such insignificant. I am the Pokémon Professor. What follows is the history of what came to pass. People call me a heathen for revealing this, for making their petty religions obsolete, but I have heard the voice of the great one. I have had the very science behind the universe revealed to me, the co-existence and troubles of Pokémon and Human from the beginning.,
I tell you, it was beautiful itfkasd?:\\[ERROR814:REFER_TO_MANUAL][OMITTING_DAMAGED_AREA]@jd#abelieve me when I told them, but I get ahead of myself.,
In the beginning, the universe was without form. There was no space, there was no light, there was no time, it is impossible for us to comprehend, but it was not uninhabited. A Pokémon, named Arceus, was there. They saw shape where there was none. These precious first seconds were known at the primary epochs. They created the stars, the worlds around them, the moons, the clouds of gas, all that we have ever known. Then They created the Earth. They watched it form, the continents taking shape as the millions of years passed.,
As the rains fell, for those thousands of years, Arceus touched the virgin waters, and at that moment, life began, for both of our kinds, and They departed from the world to seek out the next in his infinite plan, leaving life to manifest itself. After came what science calls the Archaean Eon, the beginnings of life on Earth. Humans thought that the first strands of life were destined to become man, They had a different plan.,
The Proterozoic Eon followed. It was 2100 Ma that the first of modern life emerged, in the form of Eukaryotes, which biology tells us exist to this day. They were the first Pokémon, and everything that followed was a son or daughter of this first life. Existence continued, Meso- and Neo- Proterozoic allowing the single-celled organisms to gradually evolve. Arceus, patient as They were, was not willing to see his Pokémillia, that is, the biological kingdom of Pokémon, floundering behind the Reptiles and Mammals, who had long left the sea. The Cambrian Explosion brought thousands of new species into life, some of which we have even seen to this day. Kabuto were brought into reality during this time, although their greater forms would not come until later. Although micro-evolution, what we know today, seems so familiar, macro-evolution was the name of the game at this point. Kabutops would not become present until the Silurian Era, about 100 Ma later.,
Then They left again.,
The Devonian Era was the turning point for Pokémon; the mass aquatic extinction eliminated almost all of the water-dwelling Pokémon, which made up the entire species count. They were forced onto land, where it was relatively safe. Kabuto was the forerunner, adapting to its eviction with the first known pokémon evolution, into Kabutops, who proved highly effective on the new terrain. Due to the abundance of food on the land, the first adaptations were made by herbivores, with carnivores following several hundred thousand years after.,
Evolution continued in the Carboniferous period, but the Permian Era was the next turning point, and the third appearance of Them.,
At the end of the Permian was the second largest mass-extinction known to mankind. 95% of all species in the water and 70% of those on land died off, 99.5% of everything to that point perishing. They had created a watcher to maintain the planet, but He had failed his task, being sent into the darkness as punishment. This is where the one known as Deoxys came into being, but that is not overly relevant. Pokémon, who were beginning to show evolutionary superiority, were less affected by this happening, but 45% of the formerly great numbers of Pokémon species were erased, with hundreds more following suit in the millennia that passed after, Kabuto, Omanyte, and Anorith being ones to name, although the Nautilus, predecessor of Lapras, was known to have survived this even. The remaining thousand or so were forced to adapt to specific climates, which is why we can find hundreds in one area of the world, but none in so many others.,
During the Triassic Period that followed, the species that had adapted to their respective parts of the world diversified and specialized, for example, it has been theorized that there were once hundreds of variations of Tentacool, each adapted to their own specific environments. The hierarchy of the Nidoqueen/Nidoking was one of the notable results of this time period, as the dinosaurs and large reptiles began to get larger than even a Snorlax, pack hunting became a necessity. The earliest ancestor of Rattata and Mewoth, as well as numerous other common Pokémon was first developed in this period, and Aerodactyl is known to have appeared as well.,
However, as a last kick to the aquatic life, the Late-Triassic extinction booted another twenty percent of the aquatic life, Lileep and it's various family dieing off during this time, and ushering in the Jurassic Era, the 'Age of Reptiles' was the breaking up of Pangaea, the great continent.,
This was the age of growth, as many reptiles and Pokémon grew larger and stronger. It was here that their forms grew closer, which we, the humans, for many years didn't see as differences. The Pokémon that we know today grew during this period, Sandshrew, Charmander, even the enigmatic Shuckle all took their first steps among the massive creatures we see in our museums. However, although they were close in appearance, the two kinds were vastly different, Pokémon, as they always have been, were evolutionary superior to the massive beasts, even though many were beginning to match the brachiosaurs in size. When the event that took the lives of the dinosaurs came to pass in the beginning of the Cretaceous Era, only three species of Pokémon were extinct, the three largest, as a matter of fact. Everything else, as they had had to before, were forced to adapt to the coming Paleogene.,
The birds had their time. Nearly every Pokémon that flies spread its wings during this time, most notably the common Pidgey, which took flight as Pidgeot only fifty-thousand years after it too evolved from a dwarfed Aerodactyl. Taillow too, evolving in the more tropical areas, and Wingull in the shores. All except the Three were during this time, and remain virtually unchanged from what we see today. The Neogene followed, and Rattata came into being, followed by Zigzagoon, Growlithe, Ryhorn and Tauros, Mareep and Girafarig. Mammalian Pokémon picked up the slack, with the only change for reptiles being the presence of Numel. The Birds introduced their versatile micro-evolution, and Insectoids followed suit to match their predators.,
However, it would seem that They had their eyes turned away, as Pokémon soon found not an equal, but an ambitious subordinate. The Quaternary was next, and Humanity picked up its dirty hands from the ground, and grasped spears as a show of ingenuity. The world took the form we know today, the massive bays and seas opening, the continents taking a brief rest from their long journeys, and nearly every Pokémon that we have ever seen in our lifetimes was seen in these days. In comparison to all others, the Pokémon had made their separate and ingenious forms in the time it takes to draw a breath, but humans took their bodies in the blink of an eye.,
It was approximately one hundred and ninety thousand years ago that Homo-Sapien rose his head from the dust to gaze across the marshy landscapes of its home. While many of the characteristics of humanity; tools, basic language, walking upright, were already present in those who had come before, but we of humanity began to take larger steps, more ambitious experiments. At fifty thousand years ago, our growth took a steep curve upwards, abstract thought, planning and anticipation. We have evidence of hooks made to catch Magikarp being crafted of bone, crude clothing made of the skins of deer and Stantler. Gradually these became more sophisticated tools of hunting and culture. The small groups of nomads began to spend more time in set places, cave paintings began showing up in every place that humans existed. People began burying their dead. Beliefs in mystical beings and the afterlife took hold. Sculptures, Jewelery, Arts of all sorts. We fulfilled the five 'B's; blades, beads, burials, bone toolmaking, and beauty, and notable culture began worldwide.,
Ten thousand years ago, the last step of both humans and Pokémon. Swinub and its various micro-evolutions, the modern Stantler, as well as many dragon types rose above the icy terrain during the last ice age. Man learned to cultivate plants in Asia, and create pottery in Japan. Göbekli Tepe, the 'Hill with a Navel' was the first man made place of worship, and represented what was to come after. Distinct groups, who mimicked their societies with the complex hierarchy of the packs of Poochyena and Dopyena[1], while other areas modeled their own after the more regional Pokémon.,
As the Neolithic Age progressed, humans took more hints of survival from their Pokémon counterparts. In the Deserts of Africa, the people modeled their buildings after the elegant residents, Flygon, Ampharos, with pillars of stone carve and painted to look exactly like the Flygon's tail, and statues of the humanoid Ampharos circulated, as the Egyptians thought that they were the next step of humanity, and when a man died, they would transcend into the electric Pokémon. European tribes took form in primitive, communist based families similar to the packs of Growlithe that roamed the forests and plains. The peoples of the New World became in tune with the massive woods that spanned to continent, using clothes made from the leather of the Kecleon to become near invisible to anyone but a tribesman.,
Fascinated by the levitating Bronzor and Bronzong, the initial discoverers of the Pokémon began to experiment with their own alloys and metals. And so the age of Stone ended, giving way to the age of Bronze. Initially, the bronze tools used around 4000 BCE were comprised of the melted coats of these Pokémon, but the difficulty in getting these soon gave rise to the use of Arsenic Bronze, a naturally occurring alloy that was near identical to that which the Pokémon had evolved into. The copper and tin mix that we know today was soon to follow, becoming prominent in 1550 BCE. Bronze being a lot more fluid than other metals, and easier to shape than stone or clay, the arts began to refine themselves. Unfortunately, manufacturing took a step to follow, and armies armed with suits of metal rather than leather took charge in the deserts of Africa. The sudden superiority of bronze was a showing example of the weaponization of Pokémon which lasted, hell, lasts still to this day.,
But Man does not like being outmatched by itself. Bronze equipment was soon available between all of the connected peoples, from Nubia to Scandinavia, and thus its technological edge was gone. Sponge Iron, a byproduct of Bronze smelting, had been used in certain places across India, but it was a fluke, unable to be reproduced. It was plainly stronger than the armour of any Pokémon thus far, and if a controlled supply was captured, than that people would become all powerful. Also, there had grown a shortage of Tin, and the people demanded a substitute. It was in 1200 BCE that the forging of the infinitely superior Iron began in India, where it had been initially little more than a curiosity. However, this was a metal not created from the natural means of Pokémon, that step was not taken until 436 BCE, one of the first records of industry by the second most powerful people to walk this Earth, the Roman Republic.,
They had made the discovery, as had been made long ago by a man experimenting with a Bronzor, that the coat of a Calxis[2] was more durable than any weapon that they had used thus far, having taken their best legion to fell one. Rather than leap headlong into melting it down, the Senate sent scholars to the corpse, to compare it to the preexisting metals. They came to the inference that it was a very high grade alloy of iron, and stated that it was entirely probable that their blacksmiths could create a similar state of metal. However, we know that the Romans didn't end their Empire there. Over the next thousands of years, from rise to divide, dozens of lethal Pokémon were tamed by the humans. Egyptian chariots fought the Roman Flying Archers, divisions of troops that were trained to fire from the backs of Pidgeot, as well as operate a ballista mounted on a Fearow, all while moving at unprecedented speeds. Diglett usurped the foundations of fortifications, bringing walls and defenders crashing down, thousands of Taillow dive bombed ships sailing the Mediterranean, sinking any enemy presence. The massive armies fought mercilessly for nearly a millennium, expanding to unprecedented proportions. Nearly half of Africa, and the entirety of Western Europe was under Latin rule well into the twelfth century CE, when a second power rose to existence, the only ever superior to combined steel and claw.,
In 1162, a child was born, and given the name Temüjin, which means 'ironworker'. The child held a blood clot in his hand as he was born, a sign that he would become a great leader. His people were the Mongols, and, though they shunned his leadership at first, he would lead them to greatness. At his beginning, the many tribes of the steppes were squabbling, biting messes of relations, evidenced by frequent and random raids and skirmishes across the region. It took until he reached the age of forty four, but when that day came, his final enemy was brought forth and executed, resulting in absolute control of the tribes. The man declared himself Khan[3] of all of Mongolia, and set his sights across the Gobi Desert onto the nation of China. He did not capture the cities that lay within, with populations numbering in the millions, he drafted anyone able to fight, and killed anyone who was not.,
The Romans were not oblivious to this event, their trade networks spread across all of the traveled world, even their massive Gallons, that had begun to set up camp in the South American territories, carried trade across the Ocean to the indigenous Maya people. When the supplies of rich silk stopped for a few months, the people became worried of bandits. When it stopped for a decade, they knew something was amiss. 1237 CE was the first encounter of these people, and at this time the Empires had unknowingly shared a border along the Middle East following the Mongol destruction of Persia, something the Romans could never do. The Mongols had adapted their tactics, taking instruction from the Chinese in how to utilize Pokémon to their own advantage, and took use of the massive beasts of the west in their goals, as well as the newly discovered 'Monsters of the Sand'. But two expansionist cultures can never rest without one yielding, and neither of the cultures would permit such a thing. What followed was the 'Fractured War' (1238-1591), named so because of the often jagged and irregular border, which looked much like a broken piece of glass during its frequent shifts of power.,
However, while the Romans were strong, and wielded arms of Steel and Pokémon of great speed and efficiency, the Mongols were the superior of the two, as, instead of simply assimilating the Pokémon's needs into their own, they complimented the strengths of them, and hid the weaknesses. Time passed, and the Romans took a great many victories with their order and complexity, but Occam's Razor dictated that the simpler design was best. Ryhorn, with their armour of stone, were charged into the square lines of Legionaries. The Air was filled with the sounds of fire, as the massive fortresses that the Fearow were trained to carry were brought down by Skarmory of the North, mounted with experimental cannon-like weaponry that were used much like ships of yesteryear were used. Unprecedentedly massive flocks of Staraptor willed the skies and blotted out the sun, sending fear into the disciplined hearts of the soldiers below. it took almost four hundred years, but the Mongolian Empire set up Yoson Khar Tug[4] in Rome before the very end. As the world entered its seventeenth century, the tribes of the East, going through countless generations and armies, had conquered the Old World.,
However, the men of the East were not ones who easily settle down to a life of farming, their culture and wealth had been build on war and travels, and knew little else. During the next fifty years, without a competent Khan to govern them, the world was split into massive shards of land, with a dozen main ones going to the primary tribes, while smaller portions rebelled towards their conquerors and formed their own sovereign states. The Romans had routed to their colonies in the New World, which remained undiscovered by any others for a good many years. As time passed, the over-saturated tribes further split, and by 1650 the fractions had become similar to what our modern map is today. The knowledge that had brought victory was soon forgotten or misinterpreted, leaving no one to reunite the countries ever again.,
While the Old World entered a Dark Age, in which tribalism was chief, and ignorance and superstition ran rampant, the Romans continued their progress in the Central Americas, with Nova Roma (19.763946 -70.684319) as it's capital. Their intellect and discipline with both the earth around them, and the Pokémon that were native, were key in situating themselves as the prime humans in their territory. However, as they pushed deeper into the forests and mountains, which were so unlike the ones known to them, other peoples presented themselves. Each of the natives had formed a tribe around a central Pokémon, those of the Great Lakes area affiliated themselves with Mudkip, the Appalachian Mountains were populated by those of the Gravler, the Plains were roamed by the tamers of Tauros, each of which were species never seen by the Refugees. And with new Pokémon came a new view of life, not to mention new sciences to learn.,
The Native Americans, many of whom shared a Shamanistic view of life and death with one another, were renowned for using symbols to empower and control the land, their Pokémon, and themselves. Of these symbols, we can deduce that many of our products today pay homage to them, and the items used often share the symbol that had a similar effect when used. Iron, for example, bears the symbol[5] that was attributed to heightening the endurance of a Pokémon. Potions hold the symbol[6] said to heal all wounds short of death. These symbols were commonly painted onto the Pokémon in question using pigments based on Berries and various Stones. However, the most used of them all is an image we should ourselves recognize today. When a felled Pokémon was intended to be captured, the one who was to receive the beast would draw a circle, with a far smaller circle on the inside. They would then draw a single, uninterrupted line through the center of both circles, and press their thumb in the center of the small circle. When this was done, the Pokémon would become unquestionably loyal to the new owner, and fight to the death in their sake. A Pokéball works in the exact same principal, and to the exact same effect. The Natives of the Americas were the first ever Pokémon trainers, having been doing so for thousands of years.,
Although they had creatures of their own, the Romans were curious of this new tactic: The captured Pokémon would never rebel against the owner, and fight harder than any stimulant that they had tried thus far. Although discipline had kept the regimental creatures in line, any recreational usage of Pokémon would eventually result in the Pokémon in question to rebel and flee. Seeing the potential, Rome sent emissaries to the tribal chieftains, setting up embassies and trade camps in the larger villages. The Natives, who still fought with weapons of stone and bone, were willing, if not eager, to trade their knowledge of the landscape and rituals for the information necessary to produce Steel. The Romans began to use tactics that the tribes had honed after many centuries, while the tribes began using Latin as a common tongue. As time passed, each side assimilated the other, and by 1800, there was virtually no difference in language or culture across the continent. The Pokémon brought over were thriving in nature, and, unlike the failed integration experiments of other species, the Pokémillia seemed to co-exist as their own, unaffected food network. While the Old World fractured under the shifting political sands, the New World united under the Latin Senate, and the Roman Gladius.,
By the 1900's, the Great Continent's constant mitosis stabilized. The thousands of tiny city-states had been dissolved one way or another into nine stable countries across the world. United Provinces, African Union, Central Powers, The Coalition, Ala'Kapna, The Democratic Pacific Republic, The Hinterlands, South Asia, and Nova Roma, respectively. It was at this time, when the world was at relative peace (Al'Ka and TDPR were always fighting) that we went through the many technological advances that we know today. While war boosts technology, of course, it only affects military technology. In that regard, the production had come to a halt, as the abilities of the materials available had been pushed to the limit. Thus, sight into the worlds of chemistry and biology became a priority, and the usage of Pokémon, with their evolutionary superiority, became preferred. As materials became more dangerous, the usage was soon mandatory.,
While the materials provided by Pokémon were far superior to the easily accessible ones close to the earth's crust, there would not be any progress in that field for a good many centuries. So, the scientists set out to instead harness and replicate the powers used by Pokémon. The first and most important of all the further breakthroughs was that of the understanding of Electricity. While the managing, production, and usage of this life-giving energy has changed since its discovery on 22/10/1937. Initial creation of energy was through use of Magnimite, their Electric attacks were used on training dummies, and the massive bursts were taken through conductive wires to storing areas. Many people scoff at this, in both its inefficiency and abuse of what we consider basic Pokémon Rights, but it was a different time. As the demand increased, the production was forced to adapt. In the grander mix of ideas that erupted through the second half of the twentieth century, the current method of Evolutionary Control Turbines was put into motion, although it wouldn't become feasible until nearly five hundred years later.,
The first Industrial Revolution would last the following century of so. Though it is difficult to quantify the data and discoveries that erupted during the era, it can be said that a new invention, at the peak of production and discovery, could be brought to ten times efficiency as its first prototype was within a few years, and rendered obsolete by the end of the decade. But with new discovery and the power of industrialization comes the clamour for reform, particularly so in the democratic countries, namely TDPR and The Coalition. By the end of the twentieth century, The Coalition ushered in the new millennium with what the people called 'The Ninth Revolution', not called so because of numerical order, but because the people believed that they were overthrowing their devil of a leader. They believed that they were living in the ninth level of hell. We can see the irony of their beliefs now, but at the time it was a righteous act, you must understand.,
Back to the science that we have all learned for so long, man trying to play god, though we are not a very good set of actors in that regard. It was here that the so called 'legendaries' came into being, almost all for that matter. The first was the three birds. One hundred Fearow were captured, placed into isolation in a verity of hazardous environments. The idea was to change the manner of evolution through natural selection, in which the Fearow would evolve to survive their new habitats. Of the hundred, three survived, the first, the second, and the third. Uno, Dos, and Tres, placed in an icy area, a lethally electric storm, and a volcanic inferno. Atricuno, Zapidos, and Moltres, the final evolutions. But they were certainly not happy about their lives until that point, nor after. Two days was all the testing that was able to be preformed, before the three unleashed their mighty powers, leveling the Coalition's research facility and fleeing into the wilds. Very few know of their origins. Now you are one of them, and know that most of the other trios followed suit.,
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