Kazcallen Revitalization Project
To restore what was lost
It's within our power to restore life to this area; the Desolation Plains will be desolate no more.The organizers of this project have answered the question of "just because you can, should you?" with a resounding yes. It's their belief that thanks to incredible leaps forward in technology, as well as the introduction of Catalurgy to the world, that they've now got the tools required to bring diverse flora and fauna back to the lifeless Desolation Plains of central Kazcallen.
Mission Statement
The Revitalization Group, the ones that are heading this mega-project, believe that it's their sole purpose to restore that which has been lost. They've done small scale versions of it here and there; reintroducing a species that went extinct locally, or by doing what they call "ecosystem balancing" by bringing other types of animals in to a new area to bolster the biodiversity of the environment.Central Kazcallen used to be the single most biodiverse portion of Cathedris; this can be seen through examining the fossil record of the area, studying bones, and looking through ancient texts that speak of the land. Thus the Projects grand central goal is to revive this diversity, to as great of an extent as humanly possible. With this, there will be more space for life, and the entire continent will be restored to prior greatness.
Life, thriving everywhere you look. With your own hands, bring biodiversity back to a place utterly devoid of it.
Kazcallen
Aside from Apathae (which was torn in two during the assassination of He'an), no land-mass saw more devastation during the The Seven Day War than Kazcallen. Even now, the majority of the country is a barren, desolate wasteland, within which next to nothing can grow. The people of Kazcallen mostly reside along the country's northern mountain borders, or in the capital city on the western point, far beyond the area that Xiuthan patrols
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Visionary Leaders
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Despite providing essentially all funding for the Project, as well as "gently" guiding some of its larger mission targets, this mysterious individual never includes his name on any documents, and never wishes for any credit for the good that the Project will do.
In fact, most people believe that it's truly the Biocouncil running the show, and have no idea that there's someone else entirely that's the one giving them directions.
When we're done here and the wastelands turn lush, the entire country of Kazcallen will become habitable! Start looking for your new home, today!
Willing Recruits
What's not evident from the outside is just how the Revitalization Project spends the funding they receive from their mysterious benefactor. While it might seem like the majority of it goes to research and materials acquisition, a large portion of the money is actually spent on advertising instead. The belief is that the more people that are interested and excited about Kazcallen coming back to life, the more outside funding they'll receive -- and the more volunteers or employees they'll be able to gain, as well. Advertisements on the abundant availability of fertile land, the exciting new national parks that will be created, and the endless new or never before seen species that will fill the landscape, are sent out around the world. Posters are put up in travel agencies, job postings are put out in a variety of newspapers; the Revitalization Project works as hard as it can to ensure the whole world knows of it and its goals.
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This project will succeed not by the coin, but with the hands of those faithful and excited members that have joined us in bringing about a new future full of life and diversity.
Confidence and Concern
The Revitalization project follows a three step plan that prioritizes things in a certain order; this plan has been set forth by the Biocouncil, and is assured by their combined expertise to be a foolproof plan. There are secondary objectives, and concerns, of course, but the council has determined that these are easily handle-able during the course of the Project.Initiation
Step one is to re-hydrate the land. When Xiuthan, back during the Seven Day War, unleashed a deadly attack on this landscape, she ended up scraping the entire land bare, down to bedrock. Not only did everything die, it also forced and rerouted all rivers and bodies of water out of the zone -- now it's the Revitalization Project's first goal to re-reroute those rivers back into the Desolation Plains.Follow-up
Once the land is no longer dry and unable to sustain even the smallest forms of life, step two and three may begin. These steps are separated in the planning stages, but in reality will feature some overlap; step two is the reintroduction of flora to the landscape. Starting simple with things such as grasses or hardy shrubs, but gradually increasing in complexity -- and while that happens, Step 3 will be beginning, which is to bring animals back into the newly budding landscape. In order to assist with the flora reintroduction, things like insects will be brought in first, followed by birds, fish, and small mammals. A secondary task that runs parallel to these three steps is to explore the use of Catalurgy in bringing life back to this zone; not just reintroducing animals that still exist, but instead using it to bring extinct things back to life. It's still highly experimental, but the thought is that with enough time to study the bones left behind, and with a close enough approximation found in current times, a Transmutist might be able to "reinvent" an ancient animal into the modern era.Risk
But what about, you know, the nearly 500m tall God-husk with an aura of death around her that constantly wanders towards any sign of life she becomes aware of?There's a very real fear of Xiuthan "leap frogging" her way across a partially, or entirely, revitalized Kazcallen; her limited awareness causes her to mindlessly trudge towards any and every sign of life she sees. This, of course, is a recipe for tragedy -- the aura around Xiuthan makes sure that by the time she reaches anything living, death and decay will have taken it and snuffed out its spark. However, these concerns that are often brought up in any sort of public discussion are easily dismissed by the Revitalization Project.
Not to worry, not to worry at all. We'll simply ensure that we leave a large enough reservation of land for Xiuthan in the middle of the newly revitalized and refreshed plains of Kazcallen. There will be no life around her, and she'll remain safely in the home we made for her. If she does begin to stray near the edges of her boundary, we can then deliver bait-life into key locations of her area in order to entice her back to the center of it.
Yeah, I wouldn't place my trust in the project spending more on ads than on protection from a dead god too... That suggestion of live bait is the cherry on top. But on the plus side, this lets me imagine a Genesis catalurgist joining the project to fufil a life-long dream of being a zookeeper! Talking about that, why would the project use Transmutist rather than Genesis catalurgists to reintroduce wildlife? The Transmutists Journal makes it seem as if a Transmutist can change the state of something (make ink into a pattern of words, or maybe change water to ice) but not create. Can Genesis catalurgists create, say, a wall? I get that Aural catalurgists might specialise in defence from the Warning Aura article, but I doubt it would stop a dead God-Husk. Would magical hazmat suits slow Xiuthan's aura?
The idea is that a Transmutist could take an existing animal, and "modify" it to try and match it to what they think the ancient one would be -- like taking an elephant and trying to "modify" it back into a woolly mammoth, that kind of thing! For Genesis, the more complex the thing is that you're trying to create, the harder it is -- especially if you want to make something permanent. So I think permanent forms of life would be almost entirely impossible for a Genesist to create. They could definitely do walls, but the energy required to make anything big enough to even slow Xiuthan would be pretty intensive. I haven't given much thought to how an Aurist might create a defence against Xiuthan's aura, though -- they could probably do something about it! That's a good question and I should think on it more :O One of these days (or during a SC or WE) I'm planning to sit down and add a bunch more articles underneath Catalurgy to add more depth and detail to it!
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