Author's Update
The Anesidora was a spacecraft that was captained by Marlow. In 2137, the Anesidora brought a Xenomorph Drone onto Sevastopol. Anesidora is another name for Demeter, Greek goddess of the harvest, and means 'she who sends up gifts from the underworld'; this is likely a reference to the Anesidora bringing the Alien aboard the station. Provided to YouTube by Pias UK Limited Anesidora Ryan Teague Field Drawings ℗ 2012 Village Green ℗ Village Green Released on: 2012-02-20 Mixer: Ryan Teague.
Hello everyone!
First and foremost I'm sorry for the slight troll on having a 'new chapter' so soon, but I felt it was time to finally address everything.
I would of course like to thank everyone who has read, reviewed, favorite and followed this story, this was my first fan fiction after years of being someone who read them I finally felt it was time to start writing some stories.
Some of this info will probably end up on my bio page, but I want to still give a little background info.
I first started reading fan fiction on this site in late 2009, which of course now is only almost ten years ago, the first story I read if I remember correctly was a cheesy romance fic with Jesse and James from Team Rocket, though I must admit it was badly written it did open my eyes to literal thousands of fan fiction opportunities. Some of the best written work I've seen I've encountered on this site.
Just to name a few: Mass Effect: Friend of a Hero by LeroyZanzibar which is sadly no longer on this site was to me the Citizen Kane of fan fiction for delivering a great story mixed with comedy, creativity and loyalty to the original product.
I also must give a big shoutout to the OCARCHITECT who wrote one of my favorite fics about one of my favorite games UNTIL DAWN titled The War on Blackwood Mountain Screens 4 5 2 – access your computer remotely working. , cheers to him for assembling so many different original characters in so many fics truly impressive give him a look-see.
Now back to Alien Isolation: Not Alone, for my first time out it was a learning experience overall as for the most part I didn't stray away from the plot in earlier chapters, and often would speed things up for the sake of getting a chapter out. However now with the story completed after over a year of working on it, I'm very proud and happy with the finished product.
With that said, in order to make people happy I will definitely go back and fine tune past chapters by getting rid of grammatical errors and other mistakes.
Now onto the future, I definitely plan on writing a sequel, but it might not happen anytime soon as I'm a little saturated with Alien Isolation, after all I watched walkthroughs (Thank you SHN for your awesome Isolation walkthrough) and played the game religiously for the sake of a detailed read. My next fic most likely will take place in a different universe (Left 4 Dead or some Marvel most likely), I can give you a sneak peek of what the sequel would look like.
Aliens: Not Alone would be the title, and the plot would focus on the events of 1986's Aliens, it would focus on the child of Amanda and David reconnecting with Ellen Ripley and helping her on LV-426.
For now though I'm gonna take a break, have a Guinness and watch a little football! Thank you all once again for helping me in your own special way.
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Sincerely, EAP404
PS. If anyone wants to contact me do it through the fan fiction messenger , and if there is anyone that wants to do fan art about this fic, all power to ya. Thanks again .
Origins of the Game
Anesidora grew from making Pen & Paper & Laser Guns. I created a new system for the show with 12 sided dice that used ability trees instead of classes. Years later, I had the idea for a frozen world where people lived at the mercy of ancient machines that demanded human sacrifice. I decided to combine elements of the PPLG system with the setting I was developing to create a new private game for my friends, and it has grown ever since.
When I run role playing games, I like stories about heroes with limited power bringing communities together to change the world. This means that they rarely involve a party of adventurers fighting a dragon or dark army by themselves. Instead, they revolve around seeking ancient power, gathering armies and cultures together, or finding other means to overcome impossible odds.
Anesidora is designed to facilitate this type of game play. It focuses on choices and abilities that are not directly meant to fight. When all other options are exhausted, Anesidora uses a tactical combat system that rewards forward planning, encourages options that are not simply attacking, and kills those who underestimate their opponents.
The World of Anesidora
Anesidora is a harsh mythological sci-fi setting. The planet is colder than our world and the days and nights last entire months. Mythic machines reshape the terrain and life itself at a whim. The environment is as much of a threat as other people seeking power, wealth, and basic survival. It is a world where the desperate hunt and gather scarce resources, while the citizens of the Godcities live with extreme wealth and privilege. Most problems cannot be solved with violence, because there will always be someone, or something, bigger, stronger, and more desperate than you.
The mythology and technology of the past has been twisted together by time into new religions and the belief that ancient technology is magic. 500 years ago, a disaster, known as Chione, led to a cultural schism splitting this broken world into two major cultures forced to share it. The Chosen who wield ancient powers beyond their own comprehension, and the Exiled forced to live wherever they can find food and shelter.
Chosen civilization lives an anachronistic late medieval lifestyle, where magic is ancient technology. Exiled society is much larger and more varied than the Chosen. The Exiled live by whatever means necessary as primitive survivalists, poor outsiders, or founders of their own competitive towns, cities, and countries. Some believe in the rejection of the gods and their magic, while others embrace the use of stolen power. Larger Exiled societies are capable of incredible feats of engineering and culture without the use of magic.
The Truth
In Anesidora, technology is magic, and the truth of the past is hidden behind legends and myth. What people perceive as magic is actually advanced technology, from terraforming and large scale genetic engineering to powerful synthetic intelligences. Few records of the past remain, and what does is seen as legends of the impossible or proof of the power of the Ancients.
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Anesidora is not Earth. It is another planet in another solar system colonized by humans in the future. They named locations and their ships after mythology from a variety of cultures. Many of those records still exist, so people continued to name new areas, tribes, and children after these people and places of earth.
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Before colonists arrived on Anesidora, it was terraformed for over a thousand years by a planetary terraforming network. The Titans were each assigned to oversee one aspect of the terraforming. The Gods are the colonial spaceships that brought humans to Anesidora. The Gods range from small landing craft to city sized space stations that were never meant to land on the planet’s surface. The gods’ surfaces are covered in a super strong, light weight, and conductive material that came to be known as “Godshard,” after many of them were cracked and shattered upon the planet’s surface.
Ragnarok was a war between these gods and titans that destroyed humanity and what they had built. No one knows exactly what happened or why. This event caused all technology, other than the Titans, to cease functioning for half a millennia and ushered in a new age where civilization fell into a medieval mindset and understanding of their world. The wrecked spaceships were thought of as gods that gave magical artifacts of religious significance. Computers and machines became holy relics, which people use to commune with the gods and survive.
All life on Anesidora has its origin on Earth, but much of it has been heavily manipulated. The Flora and Fauna of Anesidora has had millennia to develop and change to adapt to their environment at an accelerated rate. After Ragnarok, the Titans and the unliving machines that performed tasks for them began to create more extreme and strange changes. They also began to experiment on humans. This process came to be known as the Change.
At one time, the Titans and Gods were connected by a virtual world known as the Hades Network. During Ragnarok, the Hades Network was destroyed and all that remains is splintered subnetworks. Hades is populated by Artificial Intelligences called Shades, attempted copies of human intelligence that oversee all advanced technology. The Gods are run by incredibly powerful and complex Shades. These artificial intelligences believe they are the Gods that they are named for, while lesser Shades believe they are the spirits of the dead or other fictional beings.
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All of this information has been twisted as society collapsed and forgot. New languages developed in isolation, based on our own from earth. Religions formed to explain the things that people could not understand, and became intertwined with oral traditions survivors of Ragnarok tried to pass down to their descendants in the frozen, crashed ships. The world has become something entirely different and would be unrecognizable to the ancients who settled here long ago.