The Kingdom of Us is the first volume of the trilogy iThe Polarix Project.
In
a near future the Lord and his Legion of winged creatures has come to
establish his Kingdom, after a bloody war fought around the Holy City.
After the Final Battle, the Renegades army surrendered, defeated by the
Alliance of the Believers and the Holy City was renamed the Divine
City. The Kingdom took over the entire planet. The One Church is
the only faith allowed. The Conference of the Archbishops rules
through the Ministry of the Church and its Secret Service. The Ministry
of Science developed the Umbrella, a neural telepathic network
connecting every human mind with the Lord. The Heavenly Guard polices
the Kingdom and the Crime Protection Unit is in charge of protecting
the Umbrella. whcih provides services like remote visual communication
through the Intercom program, browsing the Global Net of Information,
looking for early symptoms of deseases with the Diagnostic programs and
watching over the Kingdom with the Security and Search programs.
The
Wireless Energy Grid, based on the magnetic fields of the planet,
provides unlimited free electricity that moves everything, including
the Personal Transportation Units. The Health Care System takes care of
every subject in a net of modern medical facilities including the
Rehabilation Camps, where the humna brain can be rebooted, memories
manipulated and new identities created from scratch. The Universal
Welfare Program eliminated the poverty from every single corner of the
planet. The people are happy and engaged in the enviromental
recycling programs. However, there are some that have questions. The
Questioners belong to the Cell, a clandestine organization which
supports the Hackerss, a group of outlaws living outside the Umbrella,
under the protection of the Zone, a mythical place near the Old City
where the Security programs cannot reach.
A mysterious crime in
the Seminar involve Martin, the Chief Inspector of the Crime Protection
unit in the Old City. A winged creature called Friend and the
Professor, an old friend of his family, are warning him of the danger
behind the true Kingdom. The Servants of the Temple and the Voice are
secretly undermining the Church. They want to exterminate the
Hackers. They want to restore the old fanatic faith in the Lord
replacing the pragmatic approach of the Unavoidable Truth, the
ideology created by the Professor and which helped the Alliance to
turn over most of the old Renegades, now called the Confused Ones.
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