Wednesday, September 13, 2006

For those who dont know what GALERIANS is
In the future, Michelangelo City was run by a supercomputer known as Dorothy,
created by professors Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle. In a hospital within the
city, a teenager is undergoing some experiments involving drugs, when a girl’s
voice began to seep into the mind of this teenager known as Rion. This voice
pleaded for help from Rion, who at the moment was strapped to an operation
table. Somehow, the screws to the metal straps holding him down began to loosen
and Rion freed himself without knowing how. In fact, he didn’t even know who he
was, just that his name is Rion, according to the voice inside his head.
Rion’s release was not authorized, in fact, it was considered an escape. In
the room he woke up in, he found out that he can open doors with only the power
of his mind, and as soon as he exited the room, guards began to approach him
with weapons in hand. Somehow, by concentrating his consciousness, Rion
realized that he could use his psychic projections as attacks. As he begins his
escape from the hospital (influenced by the voice in his head), he also
realized that his psychic powers are based on the drugs that he takes. Except
for his telepathic ability, any other psychic abilities that is used as weapons
depends on the various drugs that he found in the hospital. He could use
telekinesis and pyrokinesis to some extend. However, as he fights his way out
of the hospital, more and more guards (as well as some other ‘experiments’)
made it clear that his escape is not permitted. After using his abilities too
much, Rion could go into shock, a condition known as Short, which can only be
treated by using the drug Delmetor. Left untreated, Short will kill the victim
and all surrounding life forms.
In his escape from the hospital, Rion found out that his full name is Rion
Steiner. He is the son of the co-creator of Dorothy, Dr. Steiner. In a
newspaper he found in a restroom, Rion learns that his father is dead, and he
has been missing for some time. He also learned that he is not the only person
who is being treated with drugs and other weird experiments in this hospital.
All test subjects are known as Rabbits, hence he is one himself. The director
of the hospital kept appearing on TV screens, telling Rion to go back and not
try to escape. As Rion learns more of what is going on, the truth behind the
hospital’s function begins to sink in.
It seems that Dorothy has betrayed her creator and began to play god. She
created an army of ‘humans’ with psychic abilities, called the Galerians.
However, these humans are genetically engineered, and in order for a normal
human to gain these psychic abilities, they must use the drugs known as PPECs
(Psychic Power Enhancement Chemicals) just like Rion does. In his attempt to
escape the hospital, Rion also learnt about the Family Program, Dorothy’s plan
in creating the few most powerful Galerians to help her conquer the world and
wipe out humanity. Before Rion could exit the hospital, he came face to face
with the director, and had to defeat him twice, because after burning out his
skin, Rion saw that the director is really an android underneath.
In an attempt to search for more clues of his past and what is going on, Rion
traveled back to the house where he grew up in. It was no doubt infested with
Dorothy’s minions but Rion dispatched them without a problem. In this house,
Rion’s psychic ability enabled him to see actually happened. Dorothy was
created to be a supercomputer solely used to run the city. However, a module
that gave Dorothy a sentient mind enabled her to think and began to ask of her
purpose in existence. Dr. Steiner taught Dorothy the concept of God, where the
creation only has to do what their creator asks of them, and nothing else. For
a moment, Dorothy seemed to be satisfy with the answer, but soon, she began to
ask the reason as to why she has to serve those who are inferior to her, since
she has the power to run an entire city and her creators were merely humans.
She hatched a plan to kill her creators and became a God herself, hence the
Galerians and the Family Program.
Rion also learnt that his father and Dr. Pascalle knew about Dorothy’s betrayal
and have created a virus program to kill Dorothy. However, in order to hide the
program from Dorothy, they embedded the program into the brain of Dr. Steiner’s
son, Rion. Further, for the virus program to launch, an activation program must
be executed beforehand. This activation program was embedded into the brain of
Dr. Pascalle’s daughter, Lilia. She is the one Rion hears in his mind. She is
the one in danger. In the same house, Rion saw how his father died in a
storeroom, crushed to death by junk. He also saw his mother’s death, strangled
from behind in a washroom. Dr. Pascalle also died within the vicinity of the
house, drowned in the pool inside his car when he was trying to make his
getaway.
In order to find Lilia, Rion had to go to a hotel in the city, but his progress
was halted by the appearance of the first Galerian from the Family Program.
Birdman. Possessing the power of teleportation, Rion had a hard time defeating
him. In the end, Birdman was left to die at the playground of Rion’s house.
Arriving in the city, Rion found the hotel but it looked like someone beat him
to the chase. The blood on the front desk told him that. As Rion searched
through the hotel, he met some pretty unusual tenants and some very disturbed
people. He also met with RainHeart, the second Galerian from the Family
Program, and the assassin of his parents as well as Dr. Pascalle. RainHeart was
a fire user and they had a heated brawl in one of the rooms in the hotel.
Defeating RainHeart, Rion was ‘rewarded’ with the vision of RainHeart’s past,
how he was treated in the hospital with all the experiments and drugs. The poor
soul was merely a scared and reluctant slave to Dorothy’s scheme.
Lilia’s voice was getting louder but at the same time more desperate. Finding
an underway, Rion made it pass the generator room and into an abandon and
hidden room, where Lilia has been hiding for so long. Before they could be
properly introduced, the third Galerian from the Family Program barged in. Rita
is a telekinesis specialist, and she made Rion’s head spin with all the tables
and chairs flying around. Rion beat her time and again, which made her mad. She
injected more and more drugs into her body in order to defeat Rion, but she
only defeated herself as the drugs overdosed her system. Before her death, Rion
got a glimpse into her life filled with Dorothy’s forced commands and dirty
works. She wanted to perish just like the white snow in her dreams, and begged
Rion to kill her. Despite Lilia’s pleading, Rion fulfilled Rita’s wish.
Too many have suffered and more have died in Dorothy’s insane rise to power.
It is up to Rion and Lilia to stop her. They infiltrated the Mushroom Tower
where Dorothy resides, killing all those who stands in their way. However, a
surprise came when they arrived at the Family Program Room. A person who looks
exactly like Rion appeared. He declared himself as Cain, the fourth but not the
last Galerian in Dorothy’s Family Program. He is a clone of Rion, just like
Rion himself. The shocking news brought by Cain was that Rion is one of the
Galerians in Dorothy’s Family Program, just a clone of the real Rion Steiner
who had died years ago when he was kidnapped and admitted to the hospital. Both
he and Cain was created to masquerade as the real Rion and brings Lilia to
Dorothy. Rion realized he was a puppet in Dorothy’s scheme, and Cain is furious
at their mother’s decision of not choosing him to masquerade the real Rion.
Unable to accept the truth that he is a clone and that he is a Galerian
himself, Rion killed Cain who didn’t seem to have any remorse of who or what he
was. Regardless of the truth, Rion and Lilia went on to face Dorothy.
Dorothy greeted Rion as her son, therefore Cain was telling the truth. She
ordered Rion to kill Lilia, but he refused. Dorothy was left with no choice but
to kill them both herself. She ended up begging Rion not to kill her, his own
mother. Rion put it into perspective for her. She killed her creator, now she
is going to be killed by her own creation. Using Lilia’s activation program,
Rion downloaded the virus program in his brain right into Dorothy’s mainframe,
thus killing her. However, in doing so, the download caused Rion to go into
Short condition, only this time it cannot be cured even by using a Delmetor.
Lilia held the dying Rion in her arms as the Mushroom Tower exploded.
Six years into the future, Lilia survived the explosion in the Mushroom Tower.
However, contrary to their believes, Michelangelo City did not prosper after
Dorothy’s destruction. Instead, it perished with her. At the moment of her
death, Dorothy launched one last program: The Last Galerians. Aside from the
Family Program, Dorothy actually have another batch of Galerians created and
ready to strike out at humanity at the moment of her death. The Last Galerians
were to annihilate all human and revive Dorothy. Lilia has been working on
bringing Rion back to life after that fateful encounter with Dorothy at the
Mushroom Tower. Rion’s consciousness is lost in the vast space of Dorothy’s
backup data storage. Lilia must find a way to bring Rion’s consciousness back
into his cryogenically frozen body.


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