World of Terra Serpentum

The World of Terra Serpentum takes place in an alternate reality in which the Indian Subcontinent and Australia collide with each other during the Cretaceous period, forming the 7th Continent, Strakea. The continents have little changed since the mid-Cretaceous period, and to this day still resemble their late Mesozoic forms, drastically affecting the course of human history.

Pre-Divergence
With the Big Bang, around 13.77 billion years ago, and the formation of reality, came the Chaos. The Chaos is the moving force of all time and space, without it nothing would occur, and with the sudden spike in Chaos, Reality itself started duplicating, splintering off into alternate realities, where simple choices branch off to create new realities and versions of the original reality. We are just in one of those branches, but all information regarding which one and the existence of other universes are held available only to NACA’s highest ranking personnel.

From the chaos came corrupted entities known as the Rith. The Rith were biological, yet in a way not technically living beings, that escaped from Breaker Realities, which do not abide by the Standard Time Divergence Equation (STDE) that governs every single reality, and pose a large scale cosmic threat to whatever reality they are in. This is due to their mysterious hive-minded nature that appears to connect to the memories of whoever interacts with it, causing a person to at best suffer from on and off psychosis, or at worst permanent mental deterioration over a span of time (usually ranging from three minutes to several decades). Because of the inherent danger of a Rith simply being rumored to exist in one reality, NACA has given them the Anomaly Severity Index rating of Category 11, being the sole entities to gain this rating.

Around the time of the Devonian period, creatures known as Sauru begin appearing on the planet Alpha Centauri b- referred to as Maechillon. By a geological time scale equivalent to around the Moscovian Stage of the Carboniferous, the Sauru have organized into sentient life forms, and established numerous civilizations, eventually evolving over the generations to become the species referred to as Carboniferians. This is one of the few consistencies between the diverging timelines, and like other consistencies, it is unexplained why this event remains so. However all events after this are not consistent and are often divergence points. In Divergence-12466, commonly referred to as Terra Serpentum, this divergence from other realities (not including our own since we still do not know whether or not the Carboniferians are extinct yet or not, or even if they exist in our reality. If the latter is true, then our world would be classified by NACA as a “Breaker” and could qualify for Quantic Termination should NACA find out), is the War between the Carboniferian Empire and the Rith during the First Rith Wars around the time of the late Permian Period. The apocalyptic events on earth during the Permian-Triassic Extinction left the Carboniferians without a place to fall back as entire planetary populations were consumed by the Rith. Eventually, utilizing the Carboniferians genetic technologies, the Rith Hivemind was able to genetically engineer captured Carboniferians offspring into enhanced supersoldiers, becoming a separate species from the Carboniferians, known as Deinonoids.