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In a world where science and magic exist in tandem, there has been an ongoing feud between the two for millennia, with various covert organizations and factions throwing their support behind one or the other. Though some may be driven by financial motives, most have political or personal agendas. “The Vault,” an unbiased third group, strives to maintain a balance between science and magic for the betterment of humanity. Utilizing both magical and scientific methods, they secure and safeguard any anomalies or artifacts that might pose a risk to the world while quelling efforts by various groups attempting to expose magic to the public.

The city-state of New Laconia has developed psion capabilities by way of experimental science, sparking confusion and apprehension on both sides of the conflict. With a substantial number of psions in their ranks, New Laconia wields significant power as a science-based superpower. While their scientific methodology has been replicated, it has not been on the same scale, inspiring both sides to develop solutions. Despite being a small city-state on the science side, New Laconia has disturbed the balance of power in the world by quickly cultivating psion powers, technology, and has become one of the richest nations on Earth. The significance of their newly acquired “sciences” has the entire world feeling uneasy.

The science side’s focus is human augmentation, military technology, and artificial intelligence, while the magic side has struck a pact with certain supernatural species and their societies, including vampires. The latter society has served as a formidable political ally for the magic side, offering military prowess and aiding in magical research. The ongoing war between science and magic remains predominantly cold, although tensions are escalating. Both sides are developing new technologies and strategies to gain an edge, and the ramifications of their actions could affect the entire world. The world is on edge, and any bold moves by either side could incite a hot war. Both science and magic factions are monitoring each other, anticipating an opportunity to strike.

The Expanse is a vast multiversal reality that stretches from the simplest point of Pleroma to the most complex endpoint of Chôra. Pleroma and Chôra can only hold a single universe respectively due to their extreme simplicity and complexity, and the centrality of physical reality or Da’at allows it to generate all possible universes within the Expanse.

Physical reality or Da’at is the central axis of the Expanse, and moving towards the Beyond phases represents the direction to Pleroma, which is the point of origin of the Expanse and embodies the utmost simplicity of the mathematical structure of reality. On the other hand, Abyss marks the direction towards Chôra, the final point of the Expanse, and showcases the extreme complexity of the mathematical structure of reality. Journeying towards the Beyond phases brings an insignificance of life form due to the increasing extremity of environmental conditions. Despite this, mystical, friendly, and benevolent creatures may be discovered.

In contrast, the Abyss phases spawn increasingly malformed and twisted versions of Da'at’s life forms. The presence of such beings is complemented by horrifying entities that prey upon explorers. As explorers journey towards the negative phases, the number of life forms becomes scarce and dangerous, thereby signifying the representation of raw chaos of the universe.

Despite the Expanse comprising an infinite set of universes, the mathematical structure of reality becomes respectively simple and complex upon moving towards Pleroma and Chôra, decreasing the potential number of universes. However, Earth or Da’at can generate all possible universes due to its central position within the Expanse.

At the peak or lowest phases of the Expanse, life ceases in any tangible form, and individuals traversing such realities may encounter unspeakably bizarre forms, unimaginable architectures, impossible landscapes, and colors that defy traditional physics and human perception. The pursuit of exploration presents the possibility of attaining knowledge and experiencing both unbearable pain and ecstasy, despite the perilous nature of exploring the Expanse.