TMW - Origins | Kaidan Alenko #1
Overview ~
Kaidan Alenko, a crew member of the Normandy throughout, is born and raised in the Canadian province of British Columbia. His family Moves from the sparse Canadian countryside into the ever dense megalopolis that is Vancouver. In a world that is running fast out of space, cities grow ever higher into the skies. In Vancouver, new high-rises and skyscrapers tear through old town housing and 21st century infrastructure to make way for the city's rising population. Now Vancouver stands as a comfortable metropolitan haven in the Northern UNAS.
Hazani Pratama
Thanks a lot 
MilitantRadical
Thanks. If I did adapt the comic into my CJ, I'd definitely have a side presentation to show the original images to keep the aspect of SimCity present. Probably use like a spoiler bar or something 
And I'd probably have to think out a more definite story for it to make more sense (Those were really just samples to see how it ME:TMW would look like as a comic ), I'll probably pick one that I could go with but for now, I'll keep with just the standard SimCity images.
TekindusT
Thanks so much 
Terring
Thanks, I definitely will when I think up a more concrete story And sorry to say they're not real, but I'm planning on making some for the actual game
B.C builder
Thanks a lot
KonstantinII
Thanks
emperordaniel
Thanks a lot Dan
k50
Thank you so much
Schulmanator
Haha, thanks
Ace❤
Thanks a lot Ace, like I said with the comic strip, I would also definitely set aside a part of the update with the actual vivid SC4 pics. I'll probably get to that later though
APSMS
Thanks, very kind of you to say Those comic samples were purely to experiment to see how they'd look like. The actual story (which in fact, each segments were of totally different situations and stories if you didn't already notice ) and how I wrote them weren't really solidly put together since it was for pure speculation and to see people's reactions toward another system of CJ presentation. Oh and the grammar, I probably typed to fast haha...my grammar is usually better than that but it doesn't show on my CJs sometimes cause I typically type to fast and don't revise it. Thanks for pointing out!
RepublicMaster
Thanks Will! I'll definitely be making those comics sometime, hopefully when I have a concrete plot
Hellken
Thanks
aom1550
Thanks a lot, the history is a little vague, but I might do updates about'em in the future. Meantime, character origin updates are my priority
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Note: The updates are still Earth-bound (when my prefab BATs are developed, off-world human colonies will be next and the character's that live on them) and I'm now moving on to another character. In this update, we're in the now heavily developed Vancouver, whom character Kaidan Alenko hails from. In this update, the year is 2162 CE.
1 of Undecided Origin Episodes: Kaidan Alenko.
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Vancouver, British Columbia, United North American States. The year is 2162 CE on Earth. It's been no longer than half a decade since the First-Contact war with the turians and the human race is only now getting on its feet as it takes a step on to the galactic stage. At this time, with the Earth on the vice of overpopulation, which has become increasingly managable, humanity has spread throughout the stars. Taking leaps into new and more distant star clusters, the Systems Alliance now begins to eye new regions of space such as the undeveloped Skyllian Verge for human colonization. But this leap is rivaled by the Batarian Hegemony who, also, desire the region of batarian colonization. As the tensions unfold, cities on Earth have begun to encroach further into Mother Nature's territory. The precious commodity, that is now land, is increasingly becoming difficult to find as agriculture, urban development and unsuitable terrain has made land availbility increasingly low.
But on the Canadian countryside several years before, Kaidan's parents waere living on an orchard of which they owned. Land which hadn't been completely tarnished by the rapid forces of complete urbanization.
The orchard is an incredible sight. The skycar, which hadn't caught on with humanity a the time, is still far more uncommon than the conventional car which had often run on electricity, biofuels or even hydrogen fuel cells that had been developed in the decades before oil reserves had been exhausted. It streamed through the dirt roads, making its way to the house at the end of the road.
It was serene place, with an old traditional wood-built home, a house common in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The city was far off from here, in the interior of the B.C., where things were much quieter.
But then Kaidan's parents decided to make a move from the country and purchase a property in the city. Vancouver. His father, who served in the Alliance Navy, decided to move closer to the city where the North American HQ for the Systems Alliance was based. They took up buying an apartment along English Bay beach. Living in Vancouver proved an ease when Kaidan was at his elementary years. By 2162, he was 11 years old, and living in the city with his parents in a modest high rise apartment.
Vancouver in 2162 was highly developed, certainly more than it was in the early 21st century. Towers were scattered all over the metro, and had replaced older town-houses and single-storey home zonage with large domineering skyscrapers to accomodate the population.
There were prefabs, towers, high-rises, condos. They were sprouting everywhere there was land free to develop. Or where small houses and low-density apartments were eventually removed and re-developed.
Kaidan lived on the higher floors of a modest and up-beat apartment that overlooked the beautiful English Bay. The tower he and his family lived in was in a swarm of other skyscrapers, built closely to each other, some rubbing shoulders in a city running out of space to build.
The view was nice, of the distant landforms, trees and overlooking English Bay beach that was just across the road from where Kaidan lived.
By night, city lights flooded the metro. It brightened the skies until the blanket above them was nothing than a pitch black sky with a trickle of bright points of light. The ambient city noise was quite loud, but considering that several million people live in the Greater Vancouver area, it was normal. Kaidan's quite comfortable life with his parents had brought him to live in a city, dozens of storey's up.
And on the other side of the high-rise he lived on, the common and very typical holo-screen that flickered with the words "Colony Life - It's not that bad" advertised life on a colony world. It certainly did attract a lot of recruits from all over the planet. Just not Kaidan and his family. Earth seemed perfectly fine.
To be continued...
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