Or: How we plan to justify this blatantly obvious powermongering of egomaniacal administrators to the public.
The world of Dark Realm Inc starts out quite like the one we live in now. The inhabitants, mainly human, are in the middle of discovering the full truth behind the phrase "knowledge is power". Computers abound, and scientists are experimenting in everything from robotics to genetic manipulation. Crime and poverty are at an all-time low. Unemployment is non-existant. Cities are booming in an economic utopia.
A scientist, named Lokeil Ericson, makes a stunning breakthrough in recombinant DNA. Using his discoveries, he is actually able to "manufacture" inteligent beings with animal traits. The general scientific community scoffs at Lokeil, claiming that he is trying to play god. The courts issue a cease and desist order against Lokeil shortly after he unveils a bat-like humaniod that is able to fly for short distances. Lokeil disappears... for now.
Another scientific breakthrough allows medicine to replace lost limbs and organs with robotic prosthetics that are nearly as good in quality as the body parts they are made to replace. In most cases, even the sense of touch is able to be emulated. Computers are advanced enough to be able to actually process brain signals and act upon them. The first cybernetic implants are born. Citizens that were previously handicapped are now able to take on productive roles in the communities in which they live. Artificial Inteligence has been achieved.
Revolutions begin in poorer third-world countries that go largely unnoticed by the super-powers.
Industries become more powerful. Whole cities are built around companies. Workers live in apartment complexes that are built on company compounds. The older cities begin to dwindle and die, as more and more people move into company-furnished apartments. Some of the largest cities in the world begin to resemble ghost towns.
The government officially recognizes psychic ability
Lokeil Ericson surfaces as the dictator of a now-powerful third-world country. He has continued his experiments, and has perfected the process of creating beast-men. The simpler citizens of these countries view him as almost god-like. Lokeil creates an army of hulking predator-type men.
As industries grow, so does pollution and the drain on natural resources. Governments fail to take notice, due to the threat of corporate takeover. Some areas of the world are slowly becoming uninhabitable.
A small arms manufacturing company grows stronger and begins takeover of other weapons industries. Dark Realm Incorporated is born. Construction is started on an armored biodome.
Superpowers unite against the rest of the world. Dark Realm Incorporated enjoys booming buisness as it sells weaponry to the superpowers, and covertly does the same for the enemy. War soon breaks out. Lokeil leads most the world against the superpowers. Beastmen, known as krepp, occupy ninety-percent of Lokeil's army. The superpowers, who's armies consist completely of humans, are hard pressed to hold the lines. Both sides seem at a stalemate. Dark Realm Incorporated begins experimets in biological warfare, and soon releases a weapon of massive power, calling it Dark Wave. Lokeil begins experiments in artificial inteligence, creating weapons platforms that are actually able to "think" for themselves.
The Superpowers, beginning to smell defeat, unleashes Dark Wave against the world. The weapon works better than expected. Designed with a virus that affects the tissues of inteligent beings, the virus quickly mutates and infects all living organisms. Lokeil is rumored to have encoded his mind into a small super-computer to escape the scourge of the epidemic started by Dark Wave. Lokeil Ericson's body is found ravaged by the virus, and he is pronounced dead. A super computer is found inside Lokeil's headquarters that utilizes artificial inteligence. The computer states that it's name is Loki Laufeyiarson. Dark Wave grows into a world-wide plague and biodomes are hastily built to escape the scourge. Entire countries, even continents, become massive desert wastelands.
Dark Realm Incorporated finishes construction on it's own biodome around it's own company compound. Dark Realm is secure, just as the Dark Plague becomes global. Massive extraterestrial aircraft make contact. Wis are introduced into the population. Dark Realm collects specimens from two of Lokeil's experiments, and a few select members of the wis, and buys the supercomputer Loki Laufeyiarson, and then seals the biodome. effectively trapping all others outside to either seek shelter at other domes or die.
Biodomes begin to fail. Contamination leaks in and kills entire cities of people. The Dark Plague claims yet more victims. Dark Realm seems to be the only successful biodome. The supercomputer Loki Laufeyiarson is transplanted into a cybernetic body. Loki is given command of a scientific team to study cybernetics.
Many years pass. A ruling government is established within Dark Realm with Dark Realm Incorporated as the corporate head. An ambitious young executive named Moonblade is put in charge of government matters. Loki Laufeyiarson takes his team of scientists and begins Norseman Industries. It has become apparent to some that Loki Laufeyiarson is indeed the computer incarnation of Lokeil Ericson, although nobody likes to admit it. Loki no longer engages in DNA experiments, so it's descided behind closed doors to allow him to continue as if the discovery were never made.
Loki gains a seat on the ruling council. The study of cybernetics has been so successful that almost every portion of the human body can be replaced with a cybernetic counterpart, with the exception of the brain. Loki then creates a processor that aids the human brain. Norseman Industries discovers what has been aparent to most psychics all along. The application of cybernetics limits psychic ability. Through experimentation, Loki is able to achieve a small measure of psychic ability, which is remarkable, considering he is completely cybernetic. Attempts to reproduce these results in normal humans fail utterly.
An underground hacker-for-hire company surfaces. Their main source of buisness seems to be hiring out members of their company to larger companies to render services for less-than-moral purposes. Black Top, Inc is born.