5000 Years Ago - The Birth of a Project
The world trembled as the first rift opened, an unnatural tear in the very fabric of reality. From its depths, monstrous creatures of unimaginable scale emerged, their towering forms casting an apocalyptic shadow over the lands. In the wake of the devastation, the Imperius Empire, the pinnacle of human civilization, initiated its most ambitious projects: Project Alice and Project Golem.
The empire's greatest scholars toiled within the confines of Helios Prime, the empire's most advanced research facility, striving to create a humanoid golem capable of piloting the mechanical colossi that would serve as their last defense against the horrors of the rift. Project Alice was meant to be the answer—an autonomous, self-thinking being infused with a Spirit Crystal and powered by an Aether Core.
But Alice never awakened.
