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The Cenotaph

In the year 2030, an artifact was found on Hashima Island located off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan. The artifact, known as the Cenotaph, dates back approximately 1500 B.C. Scientists have found inconclusive evidence regarding its origins, who built it and why. However, one thing is clear: the civilization that built it was technologically advanced, centuries ahead of our own modern technology. In 2043, more than a decade after the Cenotaph’s discovery, Project Eidolon was born.

Project Eidolon

Project Eidolon is a means for the Puppeteers to act on their own ideological imperatives. The Project involves transcending the physical world through advanced machines, known as ECT-Types (Experimental Cairn Two). Using the original Cenotaph as a model, scientists were able to create modern variants with a limited degree of success. Baring a close resemblance to a sepulcher, users of these ECT-Types were able to transcend their consciousness into an existential world called Mitwelt. In other words, ECT-Type users were capable of exploring the physical world outside of their bodies in a ghost-like state. Upon waking, their memories were downloaded into the ECT-Type’s storage banks for analysis. Unlike the original Cenotaph, ECT-Types did not imbue the user access to the Uberwelt, the spiritual world. Users were normally found between the ages of 15 to 25. This favorable age group was used to compensate for undesirable effects from using the ECT-Types, such as high stress and rapid aging.


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The Puppeteers

The Puppeteers were a secretive, loose organization of individuals involved in buying and selling information to national governments. Their real intent was to sow distrust amongst the United Nation’s members, provoke proxy wars, and deny large national governments, such as the U.S., China, and Russia from forming a world government. By manipulating the interests of national governments, the Puppeteers were able to maintain their belief in the status quo and idiom: The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Eidolon Project was a means of maintaining this ideology throughout the latter half of the 21st Century.