Editing City Series:Volume8a Prologue (section)

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The 21st Century World and Japan

The world underwent several largescale turning points during the mid-20th century.

Several wars were fought from the early to middle of the century. Attack power was developed to prevent those and defensive power was developed to survive them.

But these conflicts brought cracks and fissures to the weapons and ideas the people had built up before that.

In the late 20th century, this led to the creation of dangerous technologies and more international conflicts.

Of course, technologies to support people were also created and conflicts were fought to create a new system, but the distribution of technologies capable of bringing about mass destruction began as well.

That made it possible for the world to be threatened without war even being necessary.

The biggest symbol of this would likely be Zenon City – Tokyo, which was sealed away in August 1999 after enclosing '''enough misfortune to destroy the world'''.

The power of the stars that fall on Tokyo was used to gather up misfortune from all around the world and time was stopped within Tokyo, creating a frozen space no one could enter. That effectively sealed the misfortune there.

This plan was carried out in secret, but due to the power of a certain boy, it became a looping seal with three days’ worth of time trapped within.

The incident was made public, Japan lost its capital, and the world gained enough leeway to liberate the city from that 3-day loop, so the world was faced with a certain question: '''can we really place all of our misfortune on someone else’s shoulders?'''

The West and the provisional government started in Japan were pro-liberation, but no one has found an answer to one crucial issue: '''What do we do about the misfortune flooding out from Tokyo once it is liberated?'''

Tokyo is currently under UN observation and the world is split between pro-liberation and pro-sealing factions.

Japan’s provisional government is searching the world for a means of saving Tokyo and they have made a number of different attempts there, such as their negotiations with a Swiss bank in 2000 to borrow the Death Techno stored there or their negotiations with Prague’s great library to search their underground archive.

The work toward liberating Tokyo arrived in DT at the end of 1999 when Babel was urgently transported from Osaka to DT.

Babel was built in Osaka as a 2mile-tall broadcast tower, but serious consideration was given to demolishing it as a forbidden technology. After its transfer to DT, its interior was remade into a pseudo-Tristan ley line contact device.

Its new purpose was to '''contact the Lives of a great god within the ley lines and receive that god’s wisdom''' in order to receive a hint toward the liberation of Tokyo and to find a resolution to other international problems. The world is generally peaceful despite its many problems, but you could say that is only true '''on the surface'''.