Annihilator

The city of Eden Try. A city as large as its history and just as lost. Home to 20 million, and a lighthouse to the countless wanderers beyond the wall. The city found its strength in the waters surrounding it. Unmatched in abundance of food, wealth, fun, and ability to wage war. She is known as the last bastion of civilization on a dying earth. 

Her streets bathed in neon and smoke. Her laughter is as loud as her screams. Pleasure has no time to rest. The darkest of corners are around many corners. Eden Try, heaven on earth for some, hell for others, and in the middle is everyone else.

The city is governed by CEOs and shadowy figures in board rooms. With nowhere to go, they built up. Because they were bored, they built up. Because they wanted more, they built up. Just because they could, they built up.

Eden Try’s greatest sin is its Caste System. Mostly appreciated by the wealthiest citizens, and accepted as the true nature of man. You either serve or are to be served. Anyone not of lineage carries the status of Purgatory. 

Every Purgatory is born property of the city. Any citizen of lineage can take ownership of a Purgatory for whatever reason, at any time for whatever purpose. Like fishing in a barrel. 

Those lucky enough to avoid the gaze of prospect, are still required to work or provide benefit to the city.

The earliest remaining records of the city speak of a great battle taking place across the earth.

Being surrounded by water, the city was constantly besieged for its resources. To keep an edge over their enemies, the governors of the city ordained several scientists to create a soldier that could survive the harshness of battle and equip their most powerful weapons.

The first breakthrough was found with experimental steroid injections. Causing the muscle, bone and tissue to grow and health at a quick rate. Test subjects were connected to weapons and equipment ranging in weight of 200 pounds to 1 ton. The flesh and muscle would grow around the equipment, allowing these mutants to wield it with ease.

The program had some major benefits, but was ultimately unsuccessful, causing deformations in the muscles and stopping the heart in a relatively short amount of time.

The second breakthrough came with a mysterious man calling himself I Am, sharing “instructions on reviving the dead”. One scientist, Rugter Crush, accepted the instruction out of fascination. 

Rutger discovered humans have a soul like an atom while experimenting on mutants to prolong their lives. When pulled back into life, a small amount of “energy” would attach to the soul atom and dissipate into the body. Rutger built a machine to capture that energy.

During a battle, a mutant general’s defibrillator started to faint. With no power storage nearby, the general hardwired a prisoner directly to the machine, creating a massive explosion. The prisoner had been tortured for several days prior. 

This moment would forge Eden Try into a superior power. With each battle, each prisoner supplied an endless resource of energy. With no more wars to fight, Eden Try becomes a city of pleasure and in time a new war rises. A war for comfort.

In an attempt to justify the city’s need for energy, the caste system is created,and the process of Tribulation is refined. 

Purgatories perform many undesirable tasks, but their ultimate destiny is Tribulation. The process in which an individual is tortured and then entered into a perpetual loop of being death and revival. Reliving their last moments over and over again.