Editing On a Godless Planet:Volume3A Preface (section)

===Story===
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“Here is a guide to the story so far. It’s full of spoilers, so be careful if you were thinking of reading the earlier books later.”


The Story So Far:

1990, Tachikawa. Sumeragi Izumi, 2nd year in high school, was enjoying his summer break while the possibility of terraforming an extraterrestrial planet was being investigated. Then “Senpai”, the busty beauty who moved in next door, and Balancer, an AI guide, tell him that the world around him is a VR space created by Balancer. Humanity has already left for outer space and an AI-led terraforming has already begun while humanity is in cold sleep.

But the new planet already has planetary spirits living there and only the Earth-born data entities known as “gods” can resist them. To strengthen themselves, the gods and Balancer created Sumeragi as a human worshiper. This means Senpai and the other club members are all gods.

Then some inspectors arrived from the DC, the Divine Council, to gain the right to control the terraforming. Some trouble there revealed that Senpai is actually Iwanaga-hime, the god responsible for humanity’s short lifespan. Sumeragi took her back and swore to help guide the terraforming as her partner.

Thus, the terraforming began, but then another upperclassman, Kido Abinae, said she would be moving back to her home. At the same time, a water monster attacked and some Greek gods intervened. Kido tried to distance herself from Sumeragi and deal with the water monster and Greek gods. But after being forcibly invited to a summer camping trip, she revealed herself to be Echidna, mother of monsters, and the one who created Sumeragi’s base form. She said she was leaving because the mother of the human leading the terraforming could not be a monster. But Sumeragi stopped her and led her to manifest her true form as the Scythian sea god Api. As a result, Kido used the ultimate weapon Keravnos Melan to become Sumeragi’s mother and also advance the terraforming.



'''Word

*Terraforming

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“Modifying a planet to be livable for humans. Humanity wants to do this to planets out in space now that Earth’s environment has worsened.”

*Rollback

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“The act of resurrecting Sumeragi from a backup when he dies. As a special bonus, I’ve made it so he changes sex when he eats a banana.”


'''What?

*About the Terraforming

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“So far, the terraforming work has included understanding how this star system came to be and figuring out what to do about the planet’s rotation and revolution. This is all foundational stuff, including the reason why we can’t let the planet freeze or overheat.”

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“The next task is to hold a lecture on how the planet will change based on the exact actions and decisions made.”

*About Mythology

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“Mythologies were not created individually. They spread and changed over time as humanity migrated around the world and various cultures spread with them. We also discussed the Pangaea Mythology, the foundation of human myths that began the various ancient mythologies.”

*About Other Things

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“The Norse group and the one true god were working with Shinto to begin with, but our Mesopotamian group joined them later.”


'''Newcomer!

*Sumeragi’s Mother

Member of the game club. Lives at Sumeragi’s apartment building in the room directly below his. Sees herself as mother and mother-in-law to Sumeragi and Senpai on the floor above.


*Greek Gods

Tried and failed to create a second human. Mr. V and Salacia are living in Tachikawa as part of the school. Demeter and Athena are staying there…as tourists maybe?

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