*An excerpt from "A History of Ancient Magic and its Parallels with Modern Terrorism", by Jennifer Khrishnev.
Chapter 1: Prologue and general information.
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1: Ideology Of the Null Order
Key issue: What were the origins of their thinking and how did it develop?
a) The Incident.
Many modern historians contend with the events that lead to "The Incident" 500 years ago. Only very few Ancient scriptures recording the incident still exist in the world, making studying the subject very challenging. Perhaps that is why there are so many differing opinions on it. But Nobody denies that it was the single most devastating event in all of history. So devastating, in fact, that It pushed humanity to the brink of extinction and destroyed more than 90% of our world, annihilating over 95% of all life on the planet. It is only thanks to The Mother Stone, which I will elaborate at a later paragraph, that humanity was able to escape from extinction through emergency evacuation efforts into Arkhaven kingdom, the current and last stronghold of humanity…
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b) The Mother Stone.
The Mother Stone is the core of Arkhaven Kingdom, and the major reason it was chosen as the last stronghold of humanity. Its history dates back to ancient times, but unlike "the incident", all records of that time have been utterly lost. One can only theorize how it was made. A legendary artifact, it is capable of providing enough energy to project a barrier powerful enough to block Arkhaven from the after effects of "the incident", protecting humanity from the horrors...
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c) Hierarchy of Arkhaven.
Evacuation of humanity into one location wasn't an easy endeavour, and had to be done quickly to escape "The Incident". At the time, the only consideration was human life, neglecting the economical side of civilisations. Quickly after the evacuation, it became clear that the government would be unable to fully sustain the entire population. Thus, they proposed a plan, now known as The Ten Year Plan.
Within it, I shall quote the following:
"…the government thus agrees that something urgent has to be done to fix our problem of resource shortage. Space is a problem unable to be solved, while our limited resources are unable to sustain the entire population as it sees fit.
This problem is too small to be solved without massive reformations. Drastic changes must be put in place immediately to guarantee the future of humanity. In a unanimous decision, this is to be the final solution that we will carry out over the next 10 years to establish a ground stable enough to rebuild civilization.
Starting from any point 400 kilometers from the mother stone, a boundary shall be established in a circular arc to enclose the area within. This is to mark the split of the kingdom into 2 distinct sections. Let the area inside henceforth be designated as the inner city, and the area outside be known as the outer city.the government agrees to internalise the majority of their remaining resource usage within the inner city…"
And it is this exact structure that still persists to this day.
Many historians today have strong views when discussing this particular policy. I, myself, am guilty of this as well. Afterall, why should a portion of humanity be segregated to living in poverty?
Nevertheless, the plan was successful, and this social hierarchy is still maintained until today…
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d) On Modern terrorism
In the previous few pages, I have established the context of which our modern kingdom sits on top of. In this small section, I shall try my best to connect the dots to provide a small conclusion as to why exactly modern terrorism is the way it is. This is something too vast to cover in a single page, but it sets the scene for the rest of this book and I shall try my best to summarize.
From all the evidence The Magic Order has been able to uncover in these past few years, It seems that the common recurring theme is that they were all carried out by residents of the outer cities. This includes Protocol Zero, which we all know as the greatest act of terrorism of the generation. To me, this conclusion did not surprise me, given their segregation and neglect, and I cannot help but admit that I do empathise with their sentiment to some degree. However, this does not excuse the nature of their actions, and the fact that they are enemies of the Magic Order.
One hypothesis is that their motives came from a feeling of injustice after being neglected by the government for centuries on end.
And yet, the resoluteness of The Null Order on the day of Protocol Zero, and the nature of the operation they carried out seems to suggest otherwise.
The information they stole was bounded by such secrecy that not even I could easily access them, and when I inquired further into the situation by interviewing higher ups in the government, I could only obtain vague pieces of information almost useless in discerning anything at all. Fortunately, I as a historian have learnt to connect the dots, and have drawn the following conclusion:
It seems everything The Null Order is doing can be traced back to The Mother Stone in some way or another…
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This book aims to discuss the formless nature and ruthless front of modern terrorism through the lens of The Null Order, the worst terrorist organisation of the generation. I will analyse every major operation they have carried out in rebellion against the government, and from that I will try my best to draw meaningful analysis and links between them, and, hopefully, by the end of the book, you can see The Null Order the way I see it, and be able to draw your own conclusions.
Without further ado, I present to you my research work. Read on.
*end of excerpt.
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THEWORLDWASDOOMEDFROMTHESTART.
"IT" SEALED OUR FATE.
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