Millennium 2060

[Maxx Blackwell]

Millennium: Shadowrun 2060

"Roosters crow at the dawn hoping to arouse the Barnyard..."

At the dawn of the new millennium Christians worldwide awaited the promised return of Jesus, the breaking of the seven seals as it was prophecied in Revelations. But it did not come to pass.

"But the Owl knows it is still late at night..."

The calendar clicked over and carried on and the new Millennium came in with a whisper. The major religions awaited their Messiahs but nothing happened.

But what if it did, as the Baha'is claim in the 1800s, but no one noticed or even listened? - wait ... worry ... who cares ... ?

The Foxes are about...

Blinded by anticipation of the promised Rapture and fear of what could come to pass the ball that was Faith was dropped. Guided by a Rooster influenced Millennium Group that sought to control the world and guide it through the Apocalypse man missed the boat. Conflict broke out between the main factions of the Group - the Roosters and the Owls - leaving a vaccuum to be filled by a hidden faction - a group within the group.

The Foxes perverted the direction of the Group and drove the world towards a man-made Apocalypse. But in the end they failed and the Group was reportedly disbanded.

The Master is Asleep

But the Group did not die, it just went through a dormant period. Time passed and the group maintained a low profile.

In 2011 the Mayan calendar came to an end and with it the Fifth World. It's passing begat the dawn of the Sixth world and this event was heralded by the Unexplained Genetic Expression (the UGE). Human parents began giving birth to metahuman children - elven and dwarven babies - in addition to the normal human children. This and other events signalled the return of magic to the world.

The return of magic also created violent earth changes like those predicted to take place May 5, 2000 but which never occurred.

In 2021 a second wave of metahuman transformation takes place in an event called the Goblinization. One out of 10 humans undergoes a transformation into the metahuman races called Orcs and Trolls.

Considering these signs to be confirmations that the tear in space was enroute and causing changes in the fabric of our reality the Owls came out of Dormancy and the Millennium Group was reactivated.

This Is Who We Are

In the world of the Shadowrun reality it's as though the Apocalpse has already come but the truth is this ... the worst of it is yet to come. The world as Frank Black and Peter Watts knew it has come to an end.

Society is crumbling. The four horseman of the apocalypse are about. Famine, Pestilence, War and Death.

Society has become divided more than ever into the us and them and the haves and the have nots. Racism has a new face. No longer do we fight about the colour of a person's skin but the metahuman race they belong to - humans, elves, dwarves, orcs and trolls.

Corporations run everything and only those with a SIN number can legally acquire the amenities of life, similar to the prohecies in the Bible.

Corporations war against each other.

Those who cannot purchase things legally resort to theft and murder or other means to acquire th necessities of life. Death prowls the streets for the unwary.

Those who cannot find the means to survive starve and die.

Newer, deadlier diseases exist in the world, like VITAS and other "awakened" diseases that thrive in a magic-rich environment.

The year 2060 is here. The tear is on its way and this year is marked again by a harbringer in the form of a light in the sky - the return of Hailey's comet.

"In number, there is one for every life which ever was, or ever will be.

And like most lives, they wait for a moment, the moment, when it will be sent on its journey back toward the yellow sun.

Approaching the sun brings definitive change. It will never again be the same.

Appearing in our skies, it is believed to be the prophecy of extraordinary events. The birth of kings. The death of empires.

After centuries, or millennia, the journey must end. Perhaps smothered by its own dust, the dark, soulless body continues eternally through space and time. It may disintegrate and crumble into inconsequential rubble. Or it may be lost forever, crashing, burning, into the yellow sun.

And as I look into the sky and it looks back on me, I want to know,

which am I? I need to know. Is this the beginning of a journey -- or the end."

-- Frank Black

It is a time for preparation for what is yet to come and it is a call to action and so across the world the sign of the oroborous returns accompanied by a message...

The Foxes slink away with bellies full; the Rooster's done.

And so, the Barnyard sleeps as twilight breaks.

The Master Awakens

The Owls know...

The Time is Now

Reading the portents the Owls have reactivated. 2060, the year the tear is supposed to wreak it's havoc, is at hand.

With the return of magic - perhaps their goal all along - and with the reality altering power of the approaching tear in space, the Foxes have at last the tools they need to bring everlasting damnation to the world and to control all that remains.

Conditions similar to those predicted in the Bible have appeared. The Roosters will return.

My work of the last two weeks to blend the world of Shadowrun and Millennium. Any comments?

Maxx