Farcana Story

Farcana is a tournament of Stars. It was established to test the capabilities of Axelar, a compound found on Mars that can bind to humans and give them amazing powers at a high cost. In the year 2101, most major issues of humanity are solved not through wars or political conflict but through powerful, enhanced individuals battling them out on the Farcana Arena. Each one of them has personal goals, dreams, and ideals, which only the winners will get to implement in the world.

In 2035, the first manned spaceship landed on Mars. The expedition, led by Diana, discovered Axelar on the surface, which became bound to her and gave her seemingly eternal life. That sparked a new level of interest in the earth’s scientists that has only grown throughout the past 70 years. Diana returned to earth, but the expedition that came after decided to stay on the red planet, and the one after that, and the one after that...

The settlement of Mars grew throughout the mid-21st century. Two corporations emerged as the leading powers at that time. Foresight, which took on the study of Axelar, slowly turned into a religious order of science worship focused on guarding humanity from its horrors. The Red Beacon became the builders of Mars, terraforming it into a new home for humans. The illegal settlement came soon after. People looking for a new chance began to settle the planet while it wasn't yet ready to house them.

The study of Axelar started producing results that were both inspiring and terrifying. Eventually, more and more humans and machines went into symbiosis with the substance. Axelar bonded to any sufficiently complex system, be it a brain, DNA, or even a computer. It was also found to be programmable and everchanging. Foresight became it's lone masters, guarding the substance from those who would use it for wrong. Thus Mars entered an era of unbelievable prosperity, slowly becoming a high-tech haven for humanity's brightest.

With Mars prospering, the earth began dying, and the production of superconductors caused a horrible, irreversible climate disaster, forever cooling the core of the planet. Seeing that the damage was already done, some earthlings decided to start building spaceships with whatever they had left, moving their whole lives to a planet that promised a brighter future.

A new faction arose on Mars. The Anthill group wanted to promote a new approach both to the colonization of Mars and to the study of Axelar. They saw more and more humans needing help that the cumbersome corporations were unable to provide. Anthill had a faster and riskier way of doing things. They hacked Foresight and leaked all their Axelar experiments. With the dust settled, Foresight was forced to make their studies more transparent. Farcana was established as both a tournament and a televised field lab for Foresight.

In 2095, Earth was abandoned and left a cold, lifeless rock. People, scrambling over their chance to escape, fought each other and their governments. Many countries fell apart, and the Global Alliance was formed—a new ruling body that would take everyone to Mars. The Legacy spaceship would take all the good that came from earth and deliver it to the red planet. Diana, made immortal by Axelar, led the fleet. Billions of people escaped, but Mars didn’t have the resources to take them all in. The majority got stuck in orbit.

With humanity now hovering overhead, the corporations got to work. The invention of Stasis made Farcana safe for everyone, and that in turn allowed for a new set of rules. Anyone could participate and win a place for themselves on Mars. A war erupted in orbit, with explosions and fights so terrible that they could be seen from Mars. When the criminals were defeated, the people of the orbit formed their society. The Archipelagos fought to preserve their honor and humanity while waiting for their life on Mars to begin.

By 2101, the situation stabilized but was full of subdued conflicts, mostly resolved in the arenas of Farcana by people representing their personal goals, ideals, and factions. People from orbit compete to move them and their families to Mars; people from Legacy compete for diplomacy; people from Anthill fight to loosen the rule of the corporations; and people from corporations fight to advance science in the name of helping humanity. Each one has a dream worth fighting for; the question is... Whose dream can win over you?