The Rapture

Part of the APKALLU Mythos: Year THREE, in events which are subsequentially refered to as APKALLU 4: Rapture, dating to MMXI.
The fourth main "chapter" from the APKALLU-verse, whose main subject is the completion of a satellite to hold certain people in a promisingly fully-automated experience, albeit never told in it's true nature: The plan concerns the extermination of mass population under the justification of uncontrollable leaking of demonic gene, but to the trained eye it's all well-known the inhuman ones have been living off millennia before and during human civilization, so this is a cheap population control plan for economical purposes. In other words, it's about that moment when the politics of exaggeration, hyperbolical chauvinism and massive amount of lies spread to cover the general public anxiety. While on the background, on-going plans and agendas of a former eugenic crusade turn into a new witchhunt, and despite the powerheads promising the hateful masses the end of their hated "insubordinates", they do plan to recreate misery all along, as it relies on decaying institutions wishing the resurrection of their unworthy timespan. So if the third chapter presented our protagonists with facing freedom on earth as a living hell, running out of solidarity, in scarcity, poverty and under the gun, this reiterates it's better they face it than to rely on the creation of a heaven, for paradises are always for the chosen few, partition which in his share of experiences the 'protag' knows he'd never fit (and alas it's egotistical and irresponsible, ethically speaking). While everyone should notice the population growth is the sole major problem from which others seem to stem from and to cause, the moment it becomes an agenda of it's own requires too much attention, thus the reduction of suffering becomes a better parameter, and as obvious as it is, this is not the intent of an institution [] which bases itself on a decaying morale of self-pity, trust in authorities and controlled poverty, plus accumulation of wealth, monopolization of violence and other sorts.

It follows where APKALLU 3: INFERNO (Part 1 | Part 2) left off. Further extensive detail on each character's backstory, which spans through chapters one and two in most cases, can be followed here. I've been doing close-ups and studies for the characters, all is currently at behance
This focus on possible rivalries among those which protagonize one of the competing factions:
On the Left, The informal Necoc Yaotl ARIMA Division; On the Right, The formal bureaucratic Holy Roman Empire
To give light upon the reasons or the moment they engage in fight, follow the excerpt:

The world is mobilized as Europe's (so-called) Democratic Unions cede the pressure to controversial policies (ranging from Malthusian economic devices to monopolizing the violence towards ethnic, racial or religious minorities as process of a jingoism) makes it into the government under collaboration with authorities of religious and military natures. The justification is biased through a mass media campaign against a referred "secret movement", of "terrorist nature". If such disputed faction does exist or not, it is obvious the blur serves as a facade for the ongoing spontaneous movements to either take it or leave it, so this "fictional faction" often works as a smokescreen scenario and the individuals which once gathered in an event or riot of such quality will more than likely pursue the overarching end of such plot - bringing State down with it.

Read on for further understanding of motives, context, and to check precedents of the ongoing moment of political struggle:

• The informal "Necoc Yaotl", which literally means "Enemy of both Sides", sides which in a transliteration could refer both to "Left and Right" ghosts of political spectre or else false dicotomies and the tendency of "Public or Private" management. It stands against the status quo and supposes search of self-sufficiency, but rather as the epitome or the climax of a revolutionary chapter - the unlocking of the current strains, which are more apparent than ever. No real "movement" exist, but media works like this. The name was borrowed from a strictly planned action by an affinity group a year before the current events. Anarchist movements and organizations already existed, but a militarized (through theft and appropriation) one, organized right about from a subsequent release of kidnapped communities through a traffic event planned by corporations and governments in a move unknown to the public, took this guise whilst on a retaliation attack in urban centres of the West (more specifically, a highly tourism-oriented economy city in USA's favorite satellite state in South America). When the "gang war" or "terrorist" narrative doesn't fit, neither it belongs to ethnical, racial or other kind of dispute, when they employ high technological suits with powers and even giant machines of heavy artillery and tactical features, the overall public retaliation went by the easy way. Such "phenomena" wasn't exactly understood by either MI-6 or CIA, but key figures were drawn here and there. After the Southern American incident, the third way or middle policies were requited to radicalize, to either face the times they were into - accepting the crisis affected other countries, displaced homes, families, destroyed ecosystems, or they'd die to protect foolish lifestyles and the maintenance of an overarching conscripted system where rich gets richer and the poor, poorer. Hard as reality, the multiple Necoc Yaotl are non-official, who will either form or disband it's "cells" to adress both local matters or to "lash out" (assassination of key figures, to luddism, property damage, sabotage, theft, as long as the cells planed and agreed to - leaving it's only hierarchy being the warning of the situation) at the globalized capitalism. Those involved in the riots and attacks will more than often disband it in order to pursue cooperation with a certain community which was "benefitted" from it (likely those who had no rights, or nothing but rights - on paper). But if he or she participated on that with a member of yet another of these "cells", a network of intelligence may come to be. Hackers, spies, and such do exist, but if they're unreachable, they pursue as well means to jam official security, as well as eliminate certain tendencies which pend to traditional crime lords - dependant on the system. That highly un-popular motives shadowed other forms of organization, but as well as served as inspiration to the unheard. Some would argue it was bringing back what the potentials thrusted at its "outskirts". Made the powerful remember that "people used to live there", where they saw only resources.

• The formal "Holy Roman Empire", which itself counts with support from independent nucleii inside important countries' official military, such as the special unit of the Teutonic Knights (at time, highly armored soldiers which are a part of German army but will also respond to a newly christened Austrian sovereign - despite his preposterous claim be ongoing debate), as well as sideline militias ellusively supported through finances of think-tanks of either neo-con nature or those promoting liberal economy. Those investors are kept in adamant secrecy but it's deeds are kind of obvious - favoring a secret round table of warmongering figures within European nations, the same which in the 90s were on Eastern Europe and the last decade, on Middle East. The Empire is more or less an enterprise, and is highly supported by a central church, The Western Roman Catholic, although it have other churches at "gun-point" due the vastness of its network. Ecumenical roles ties in to the moment of political unstability, so either unrecognized, albeit publicly supported, or even recognized, albeit strictly regluarized in national frontiers, the Inquisitionary Offices are the crude reality which make the Empire less a initiative and more a suppressive system. An increase in military ranks with higher support of volunteers, it's role is suppression of insubordinate elements which fit one or more of all it's incredible roster of absurd narratives. To turn it in categorical acceptance, many power-plays and publicity investors will defend a part or two of such conscripted plot to the acceptance of the newest Vicar, Leo XIV - in his revenge-seeking plot against the murder of the last helding it's title. It also stems from an eugenic plot conscripted as a "demon hunting" sequence. Whilst programs such as AXIS were secret and turned obsolete, by the rates that not only "demons" were known, they were freed, the fact that their range acted around so-called "Third World" in key positions machinated by facades of church charities, was apparent. The proof, however, was gone - the slave pits have been replaced by another kind of netwrok across the globe. By the year of MMXI, the church under Leo had a new visage - bring Heaven upon the Hell that earth has become. That suited most people's fears - they were all tirelessly afraid of Triton or Paynal for example, and competent authorities have failed to capture them for over two years, letting them even organize with humans. Ironically, such effort of the Church counted with help of Dragons, Vampires, Angels (Djinni) and mostly trans-humanist science.
  

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