In the vast emptiness of space, among countless celestial bodies, a lone planet without its star wanders aimlessly, attracting to it specs of energy to keep itself warm just long enough to attract more...
- year214ofthewanderer'scalendar -
"...Listen here class, as you all know the sun has been gone for 214 years, panic ensured, earth changed orbit, now lone and separated from all other planets, shrouded forever in the darkness of night, but even then, the life inhabiting it did not perish, is there anyone willing to answer why?"
The teacher asked, when someone -she knew exactly who- hurriedly raised her hand.
"..."
"Not you Samantha, let the rest of the class answer the question."
The 9 year old girl slumped back in her chair and sighted while others raised their hands.
The teacher, Mrs. Woolie, picked one of the students who didn't raise their hand -yup, she was that kind of teacher.
A student with bright blonde hair grunted before sitting straight and answering in an annoyed voice:
"Its because almost at the same moment the sun disappeared earth started absorbing a newly discovered kind of energy that kept it warm with a relatively stable atmosphere."
"Great work Thomas, now, do you remember why earth gained the ability to absorb this energy into itself only after the sun's disappearance?"
The blonde boy muttered almost cursing:
"Come on, we've been taught this since kindergarten..."
"Thomas, unless you want a reprimand answer the question, no buts, it's more important to learn history in this span of history than it ever was, you wouldn't believe how many people I met that don't even remember the basic things like these."
"...the most widely spread theory is that the sun absorbed all the energy, leaving none for ehe planets orbiting it, an expansion of this theory is that the energy helped in fuelling the sun in the first place, however the real cause it's unknown at the moment."
"Great job, see? It wasn't that hard."
As the lesson progressed the class repeated all common knowledge about this new energy. There are many things to know, starting with its name, due to its help in keeping earth warm and in honor of the disappeared star the energy was called sunshine, this miraculous energy is still being studied as society is still making revolutionary discoveries about it to this day.
-Sunshine is not only a clean energy source, but its far more potent than any previously known energy source, it seems to exist on multiple planes of existence at the same time, giving it unthinkable properties never seen before, it also seems to have integrated in the earth's atmosphere and the ground, making it alot sturdier.
-The most impressive thing about sunshine its that prolonged exposure to the one in the atmosphere mutated living beings, giving them the ability to channel it themselves
-but wouldn't the body simply explode due to such energy? This doesn't happen for 2 main reasons:
Quantity and quality:
Quantity its self explanatory, meanwhile quality refers to the density of the sunshine (and other thing explained later in the novel)
To better explain this humans created classes.
Rank 1: the lowest rank, in this rank people can merely channel specs of sunshine, creating a chenter in their body where sunshine would accumulate in an excruciatingly slow progress, the body absorbs sunshine of extremely low quality, without even stirring the sunshine around them but simply absorbing merely a part of it.
This rank is almost identical to a normal human, with the only difference being a slight increase in durability where your core is being formed.
Rank 2: a step further, once enough sunshine is channeled inside the core it starts spreading evenly around the whole body, in this step there is alot more you can do, as you stop focussing on quantity qnd think about quality, since your body is now 1 with the energy you can increase its quality, becoming stronger, faster and being able to manipulate energy outside your body, this process at the level its useless.
Rank 3: at this rank you become fundamentally different from a normal human, gaining a special ability called shine.
You move onto this step once your quality becomes on par with the one in the atmosphere, you gain the ability to move freely sunshine around you, however you'll only awaken your shine once the sunshine in your body becomes denser than the one around it.
to better explain this, once your body 'shines' brighter than the air around you, your shine won't be suppressed by it anymore and show itself.
Your shine is unique to yourself as no one has the same exact abilities, however within a family tree shines will share major similarities, thus shines from the same family tree form a "constellation" you start being able to easily manipulate energy outside your body, but aren't able to do anything with it
Rank 4: knowledge about this rank onwards is scarce, to obtain more information one has to either join the military or belong to a family with someone who advanced to rank 4 by themselves.
What is public knowledge instead its that at this level.your shine can cause mass destruction, it's on a whole other level than rank 3
Most of the population can't reach this level, only one in 10, no matter what it depends purely on talent.
with time in this rank you can gain the ability to turn the sunshine around you into an extension of your own, by doing the opposite of what was happening before you became rank 3 and oppress instead the sunshine around you, this can be used to enhance your attack power and as a weak telekinesis, some people in this rank work to stabilise sunshine extractors- machines that absorb sunshine to turn it into electric energy to power entire countries.
Rank 5: This step is extremely rarer to achieve than step four, as only 1 in 100 Rank 4 ever reaches rank 5, the only public information about it is that rank 5 are on another level, capable or throwing around buildings like toys and being able to fly tha ks to their manipulation of the sunshine around them.
Rank 6 onwards are mysteries to the general public and its said they're the main forces in international wars.
Along with talent and opportunities sunshine affected the fauna and flora of the world drastically, with an unprecedented change in most animal species, some of wich turned into beasts capable of fighting using their own shines and hungry to eat other's. They're the main threat for humanity excluding itself
Humans with a shine(rank 3 onwards) have been given a name, symbol of hope and survival for the rest of humanity as they fight to keep earth under humanity's controll, they're called wanderers