Kangaru Verse (Darth Wiki)/Characters

Although there have been no characters as yet devised, there are a number of alien species that have been created, at least tentatively, for the Kangaru Verse and its related media.

Major Milestones/Events
The Promethean War

"There's plenty of stories of lost civilisations...how do we know this one isn't just a story?"

The Prometheans are the Neglectful Precursors of The Verse, who, originating from the Andromeda Galaxy, fought a massive war in our galaxy, the Milky Way during the reign of the Last of the Great Lords of Sorcery, a terrible entity known as Karuthos of almost unlimited power. After a 4,000 year war to claim the Milky Way from Karuthos, who, after ascending to the position, claiming to have caused a series of petty-seeming but important events such as the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event and the mass-suicides of countless of superstitious civilisations and planets, ruled the galaxy as a tyrant demanding worship usually with sapient-being sacrifice - thus gaining sustenance preferably from the anger, hatred, fear and general negativity of others - and saturating the worlds in its evil sorcerous power, they finally won, sealing the now-blinded and crippled entity within a Dyson Sphere, fearing worse consequences if they simply killed it (Karuthos is a genderless being representing the principle of sorcery and being an almost-literal god of evil and is never referred to as he or she, at least not by non-worshippers in the modern era). After the war, the Prometheans were horrified by the massive genocides that were waged by both sides, and the Prometheans began rebuilding the galaxy in a world where sorcery was now (largely) absent, for the good of all the younger races since due to Karuthos' reign being a Galactic Hell. Mysteriously, about 500,000 years ago, the Prometheans simply vanished and left some of their technology behind. But the Prometheans were not entirely benevolent - indeed, their mentality was that any species technologically able to stand against Karuthos and with the Prometheans, and yet did not, were just as bad as those who stood with Karuthos. Thus many self-declared neutral species met their end at the hands of the Prometheans; one of these species, known as the Sylphid, fled through a dimensional rift in space-time to another universe, and closed it behind them, making it look as if the last of the Sylphids simply committed mass suicide. However the Sylphids vowed to one day return and conquer the galaxy, and left artefacts behind by which a younger species would re-open the door...

Meanwhile, another species suddenly appeared about the time of the Promethean War, fighting for Karuthos - the Nevayrim, who had forcibly mutated somehow from captive Prometheans in Karuthos' torture chambers. Due to their physical nature, they survived Karuthos' imprisonment while many other creatures died from being starved of magical power. The Nevayrim did not disappear from the galaxy but they began warring among themselves, and over the centuries, they slowly became extinct but for one of their kind, whom went into dormancy and imprisoned itself in an artefact known later as the Orb of the Nevayrim; which would be later discovered by humanity...

Earth's Future History
"When the search for new power independent of the Lunar Republic's helium and the Bear's Domain and its hydrocarbon, the Eagle's Empire sought to drain Mother Earth...and paid the most heavy price of all...thus ended a time of relative progress, and in all places aside a set of eastern isles shrouded in isolationism, mankind on Earth sank back to a pre-atom-spliting horror such as that when the aeons-old city of Rome first fell..."


 * From the Collected Oral Histories of the Post-Volcanic Tribes of Strahaya, Tellurian Union Central Archives (formerly the Library of Congress, reclaimed and rebuilt in 2271)

The political situation of 2071 was grim for the Independent State of America, formerly known as the United States, struggling in the aftermath of a second civil war and the loss of territory to their southern neighbours, they had become increasingly totalitarian and paranoid under a rule by a singular Imperial President, who had abolished Congress in the war. They still had enough westward control to rule over Wyoming and other nearby states, but with the lack of any decent power sources thanks to an embargo by China, Russia and the recently-established Lunar Colonies (who had been sending helium to Earth for nuclear fusion, but thanks to pressure from China and India, sold it to the ISA at artificially inflated prices so as to cripple them), the ISA was in a desperate state, and the many ISA citizens whose grandparents had lived in relative comfort were now living in squalid and unkempt conditions comparable with many Third World states.

However, the ISA would not be undone. Draining the Yellowstone Lake, the American scientists, using plans transmitted from a recently-discovered extraterrestrial radio source, began constructing a device dubbed a geovampiric reactor. The principle of this machine was to, via a bore through a given Earth-type planet's surface at a weak enough point, such as a tectonic fault or a supervolcano, the reactor would begin drawing power directly from the planetary core, and if on a slow enough drawing cycle with proper calibration, would produce enough power for centuries; however, with a long-term risk of weakening the planet's magnetic field. The source information said that they had built these machines with relative success; however, when Geo-Vampire Yellowstone was activated, something went awry on a cataclysmic scale.

The scientists scrambled to each their evacuation helicopters, but they were not fast enough to escape the result of their failed experiment. Whether an error in the calibration, or possibly sabotage by agents from the Mideastern Islamic Conglomerated States (the most accepted theory by the ISA Loyalists who survived the initial catastrophe), or possibly the Lunar Colonies not wanting any competition in the energy market, whatever the reason, a gigantic explosion filled the skies and much of human civilisation at that point began to die screaming. California west of the San Andreas Fault sunk into the sea, San Francisco and Los Angeles were utterly destroyed and partly sunk into the ocean or the earth itself. And as the volcano erupted with furious and apocalyptic scope, the clouds covered the Earth's skies, plunging it into an artificial ice age. The great nations of China and India fell upon each other, finally consigning much of each other to nuclear doom. Even the Southern Hemisphere was affected, with Australia's long-standing tensions between European-descent and Asian-descent locals along with their mutual Eurasian progeny - a small but growing ethnic group in Australia - a revived yet still marginal indigenous Australian nation created as a bantustan by earlier governments, and a mixed-bag of those descended from refugees in Africa and the Middle East, finally began fighting each other with the casus belli of nothing but mutual hate, splintering the once-unified continent nation into progressively smaller and smaller groups until only tribalistic raiders and pointless vendettas between feudal domains were left. Only the Japanese, who had been planning for such an event since they regained independence after World War II and wished to survive an even worse war, especially when they went into their second isolation, were able to survive in any way like they had, taking shelter in underground cities, where they could live comfortably - even their beloved imperial family survived this way. Also of note was Tasmania, the last Australian state to remain unified, who then joined the up-and-coming Aotearoan Republic, to survive.