[color=teal] Well here's my fic, hope you enjoy it. This is just a Prologue to explain the history. It will help to understand the following story, trust me. The large spaces are supposed to replicate a new page loading. There is some swearing too.



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[color=teal]I apologise now for any inaccuracies in the planetary possibilities of Venus. The same holds true for human and animal genetics. Such impossibilities are made real by the imagination of me.

Huh, sounds like I'm on a power trip. Ah well, it needed to be said. Oh, and I do not own Pokémon. As much as I wish I had one. Tweeeeee ^.^ Oh, a few things said in the following paragraphs my offend some people. I really, really, mean no offence; I only tried to come up with a series of events that led to people going to Venus. So yeah . . . on with the show!



[font=courier]The Venuse: Fading
Prologue




Cellif ehh'hit ot emoklwee!

Wecum t da’fil!

Welcome to the Files!






Ref'erp uw'oy od ega'uggnal tahwho? * *
[color=teal][font=courier]H'silgenee
[color=teal][font=courier]Wt langich d’uw pe’er?
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Venus Geography
Origins of the Venuse
Venusian Genealogy
Genga/Betsujin Genealogy (incomplete)
History of the Settlements
Layout of Venulinra
Genga
Betsujin
Alvar
Nillian
Pokémon


















Origins of the Venuse


They tell me I am supposed to remain impartial when I write this. Relate only the facts. I challenge anyone to do that. Our history is full of too much hatred to be impartial. If you are reading these sentences, it appears that they agreed on this. They probably wanted a more 'personal' feel. Well, I am not the most personal of people, but I will write this how I want. Some editor can come along and 'fix' this to fit their views. Or not, seeing how I'm a living relic, my word is probably considered the truth. Interesting how that that has never gone to my head . . . Anyway, here is our history.

Where to begin . . . Well I suppose that I should begin with the war. If you can call it that, it was more of a demonstration of machismo, and how big could things go boom, then anything else. The war from its beginning to its end was extraordinarily s*****. Not that I’m discounting the s******** of leaders (and wars) past, but this war was exceedingly proficient in the areas of sheer i*****.

Let’s start with the name, Terra Fear. No, not the most original of names, but it did reflect what happened. Terra is Latin for earth, so Earth Fear. (this is only a guess, what the real reason is I do not actually know . . .) Trust me on this, the entire Earth was afraid of what would happen to both themselves, and the future of the Earth itself. You see, quite early on the countries at war decided, ‘Hey we got nukes! Let’s use em!’ Well, perhaps not with that much enthusiasm, but you know what I mean.

I suppose I should say how the whole thing got started. Well in the year, 2248 the leaders at the UN Conference decided they should have a couple of representatives for each continent on Earth. They thought this would be a good idea because the Earth’s population had plummeted in recent years because of an Ice Age (2097-2243, a relatively brief snap back). The northern continents were hit hard, as you can well imagine. They thought they could get things moving faster for the large-scale problems, with large-scale representatives. It was a good idea, until the Middle East decided they wanted to be considered a Continent.

You see, when they started the Continental Circle there were six members, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The Middle Eastern countries believed they should be considered a Continent too, because their interests were not always seen in the respected Continents of Europe and Asia. The leaders at the UN Conference and The Continental Circle said no; they were not really a separate part of the landmass, nor were they all that different from the people representing the Continents they were a part of.

They were not happy about this and made an appeal, having all the countries sign on in their wish to become a Continent. They also got the support of the oriental countries like, China, Bhutan, and Taiwan among others. Still they Circle said no, and things degenerated from there.

No one is quite sure how it got so bad as to begin a war, but it did. No one is quite sure who fired the first shot either, but the general consensus is it was one of the European countries along what was to be the Middle Eastern border (probably Romania). After that . . . well everything fell apart. When Turkey retaliated it was considered the start of the war, February 21, 2285.

I was 7 at the time, and I remember it very, very well. The nukes did not start falling right away, but threats were flying every which way. I lived in Japan at the time; we were on the side of the Middle Eastern countries, if I remember correctly. Everyone was terrified, hoping it would not degenerate into outright nuclear warfare.

Then of course came the infamous day with Venus. Space travel was well utilized by now, Mars being a testing ground of sorts. Venus was considered to inhospitable for any attempt to be made on putting people on it. Being able to melt lead put kind of a damper on the whole colonizing business.

Anyway, on April 5, 2289 a tremendous explosion took place near Venus. I cannot describe how big this explosion was. I suppose picturing a nuclear explosion would work. The starting outward circle though. Except its in the sky, on Earth, the size of the Moon, during the day. I can testify to that fact, it sent many people, including me into a panic. Scouts were immediately sent out, and there was nothing left where Venus had been, except a few floating rocks. It was naturally assumed that Venus had been destroyed. There was nothing remaining of the ships.

By searching shipping logs it was determined that it had been the United States of America that had owned whatever ships had been near the planet that day. It had been carrying a large amount of nuclear devices. What they were doing near Venus we never did find out, but another group of ships confronted them. We believe they were from Saudi Arabia. We think they US of A ships would not hand over the nukes and the Saudi's decided to use force; VERY bad idea.

Naturally this was found out by the ME's side and they were outraged. They responded with the perfect amount of force, a nuke on Washington.

Now people were terrified, and some decided they had just about enough of this incredibly s*****war. The problem was they had nowhere to go. So a number of people (mainly from the UK) started to look towards Mars with more interest. When they were looking they noticed a star that had not been there before. It was very hard to see, as it was right beside the Sun. They found out it was a planet, or at least an asteroid that had not been there previously.

The UK sent out a Scout to look into it. The other countries were a bit preoccupied with the war to be looking to the stars very much. The Scout was simply checked over at the International Space Station for weapons and sent on its way. It flew over to the rock and found it to be Venus.

A lot had been changed about the planet. First of all, on one side there was a very large crater, a wound from the explosion. The rocks were circling the planet in a strip of many moons. Second, some of its atmosphere had been blown off in the blast, leaving the gravity slightly less then that on Earth. Its axel spin had also been sped up from once a year for a full rotation, to once every 22 hours. Finally, it had been blown farther outward from its original path around the Sun. It was almost equal with Earth's distance from the Sun.

The Scout came back to tell the exciting news. The people looking for a new home all agreed if they could make Venus habitable it was much better then Mars. They sent out word that anyone who wanted to leave they were headed for Mars. They did not want people to know about Venus, because it would most likely be made into a testing ground. They decided to say they were headed for Mars, for anyone they got would be willing to wait a while for a new home. In the end, 37 482 people signed on to leave Earth.

There was a slight fee to pay to leave, Ł580 ($1000 US), and you were only aloud to bring what could fit in a 3.5 by 3.5 metre box (almost 12 feet by 12 feet). The people who wanted to leave scraped up the money somehow. On September 1, 2292 the ships set out for Mars.

On the way there they scrapped the communication devices to reach Earth. Then they told the people they were actually headed for Venus. They were going to fake an accident and head there in the confusion. One ship was subsequently blown up and they disappeared in the resulting mess. The people on Earth didn't really care and just sent out a couple of Scouts and reported the ships had blown up. In later years we were told our leaving was an obscure point in history that no one really cared about. All the better for us.

We went to Venus and dug into a mountain for our homes. We called ourselves the Venuse. It took about 80 years to change Venus's atmosphere from one that was not breathable and highly toxic, to one fit for life. We had to keep pumping needed chemicals out for a while as we set about planting vegetation and creating oceans and such. It took another 50 years to get the planet stable and able to 'run' by its self. By that point we could venture outside with Oxygen masks. We continued to plant vegetation until we determined we could grow Earth's animals and set them loose. On July 1, 2503 the terra forming was complete and Venus was a thriving planet.

In the time between we determined we would need helpers to get us around quickly on the planet. We did not want to use ships, as that was too obvious that people were living there. Horses had been the traditional choice but we needed something that was a bit more manoeuvrable. So we chose deer. We also wanted them highly intelligent, as it would be more useful. On August 3, 2414 the Alvar were created. They came up with the name themselves. It is fully understood they are as smart as any human, and are treated accordingly.

During this time, we also developed ways to lengthen our life. To say the least, it worked very, very well. I could not tell you how it was done, but I am living testament to those experiments. On average people now live to see 250. The scientist's thankfully thought that was quite old enough and stopped further testing. I appear to be the exception because if you know any math you realize if I was 7 in 2285, and today is 2589, I'm 311 years old. When my comrades of the testing started to die, I believed I was soon to follow. However, they all looked to be what was called late 60's; I still looked in my early twenties. We could greatly reduce aging but not totally get rid of it. The doctors tried to find out why I was outliving my fellow test subjects, but they still do not really know. The only difference I can see is I was injured when I got the shot. I was also much younger, but I still should not look this young.

Unfortunately we only had a little over 54 years to enjoy our new planet. We never communicated with Earth but we did keep an eye on them. We wanted to known if they had found Venus before they ever came near our home. It was good we kept such vigilance, because we saw the Scout coming days before it got here. We immediately hid all evidence of our existence. Not that there was much in the first place. Then they came, and they were very confused.

We listened in on their telecoms and learned they came from Japan. We also learned their intention to use our home as a testing ground for their animals. We were both rel8ived and dismayed. Thankfully it wasn't for weapons testing, (in the big boom sense) but their animals would probably upset the ecological balance, and it was a delicate thing already.

Either way we were not found out, although they were very confused. How had Venus become like this? It was thanks to the Alvar not many questions were asked. They had greatly enhanced telekinetic abilities and they implanted a memory of a group of colonists going away to Venus. They started to terra form it but ran out of resources and had to leave before it was completed. It was thought Venus had fallen into ruin, but evidently it had thrived. The Alvar also impressed the need to tell no one. It may have been wrong to fiddle with their minds but they came out none the worse for wear. We even sent a few people back to get to the top leaders and scientists, and give them the memories. I am assured that it was a very unpleasant experience going back.

When they set the Pokémon loose we kept a wary eye on them. It was to our great relief they had been given rudimentary intelligence. As in they spoke in broken, but coherent sentences. Much like a young child, therefore they would be able to be reasoned with. It also seemed that the older they got, (and the more they changed shape) the smarter they got. We learned they were based off an old kids video game and TV show. I swear to the Stars Around, I have never seen people so perverted. Taking a kid's show and turning it into a weapon for war . . . I have never heard of something so disgusting in my life.

Now taking animals and making them into fighting machines is bad, but they did the same with people. They took those from the slums of society and brought them over, calling then 'Genga's'. About the only thing they did for those people was give them a Nillian. They are basically the equivalent of an Alvar but in horse form. Oh and I guess they gave them a home, for a little while. Later they had unbelievable atrocities committed upon them.

In March of 2576 Japan took their creations back. The first and second generations that is. To say the very least, the Pokémon were not pleased about this. The Japanese came in very quickly and stole them all away before much could be done about it. They raged out at anyone and since we were literally sitting ducks we were their favourite choice. We snuck out at saved some of their young, showing we were not the ones to blame. They were still suspicious but when we worked with them saving young, they swung back to being friendly, and they were extremely grateful to us.

In the year 2580 we met the most optimistic people you could ever meet. The Japanese called them the 'Betsujin'. They had been average human beings but they had been radically changed. Now they were similar to ancient mythical creatures such as, Sphinxes, Centaurs, Merpeople, and Harpies. There were also two more also "invented" creatures, Riba (frog-like humans) and Fleeter's (flying fish with a human head and neck with webbed back legs). All the Venuse felt sorry for them and when they were 'released' (pah, the anger I felt at those people . . .) we helped them as much as could be done. The only favour the Japanese did for them was to make sure their bodies were fully functional. That and the Nillians never deserted them. Still they feel this is better then anything they had on Earth.

Japan kept shipping in the Genga's and spitting out the Betsujin. They still took some Pokémon, but not like that first snatch; evidently they no longer cared what happened to them. Thankfully, nine years later they left. We quickly found out why all their people had left and it was because a new war had broken out called the War of Beasts. You can see why Japan had been inventing Pokémon and the Betsujin. They are still shipping in the Genga, but the next ship is the last one. We hope to destroy all memory of this place. It will take some doing, but it has to be done.

For your convenience, here is a timeline.

Timeline
Bold, Italics are timeline on Earth
*Where a timeline should be inserted, but not added on to by the one after

February 21, 2285~War start (Terror Firma)
+4 years, 1 month and 15 days
April 5, 2289~Venus moved
* ** *** **** *****
+1 year, 9 months and 14 days
January 19, 2291~Rediscovery of Venus
+1 year, 7 months and 15 days
September 1, 2292~Left Earth
+2 months and 27 days
November 28, 2292~Start making Venus habitable
~Landing on Venus-people call themselves the Venuse (Landing near Hyndla Regio)
*+38 years, 7 months, and 2 days
November 7, 2327~Nillian created in the United Kingdom
**+6 years, 6 months and 19 days
May 26, 2334~All fighting stopped
***+7 years, 5 months and 19 days
November 14, 2341~Japan starts developing Pokémon
****+23 years, 2 months and 5 days
January 19, 2365~First successful Pokémon (Meowth/Persian)
*****+104 years, 7 months and 8 days
August 24, 2469~Japan is successful in creating first 151 Pokémon
+121, 8 months and 6 days
August 3, 2414~Travellers create the Alvar
+88 years, 10 months and 28 days
July 1, 2503~Venus terra forming complete
+53 years, 2 months and 26 days
September 27, 2556~Japan creates the first 386 Pokémon
-Begins searching for a place to raise more
~Starts to experiment on humans
+1 year, 13 days
October 10, 2557~Japan finds Venus
+3 months, 2 days
January 12, 2558~Japan sets up shop on Venus (in Tellus Tessera)
+5 months, 5 days
June 17, 2558~Enough Pokémon produced for stable populations and they are released
+18 years, 9 months and 9 days
March 21, 2576~Japan comes back for first and second generation of Pokémon
-In between they bring people over from slums of society
-Called 'Genga's'
= Each Ganga given a Nillian (The United Kingdom had reject their creations as too smart, and therefore not useful)
~Venuse helps Pokémon to show good faith
+4 years, 1 month, 0 days
April 21, 2580~Released the changed people, 'Betsujin'
-Venuse helps them as well
+9 years, 14 days
May 5, 2589~War breaks out on Earth-called 'War of Beasts'
+2 months, 9 days
July 14, 2589~Last shipments of Genga sent over
-Crash near Zija
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[font=garamond]Hope you enjoyed the fic! Well, as I like to add in something odd, here is the:

Random Fact of the Chapter

Leap Years
1. Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year.
2. But every year divisible by 100 is NOT a leap year
3. Unless the year is also divisible by 400, then it is still a leap year.
This means that year 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300 and 2500 are NOT leap years, while year 2000 and 2400 are leap years.