When the Light Fell from the Sky
The world did not end on the day the light crossed the sky.
It began.
Two hundred and forty years ago, a blue-white mass tore through Earth's atmosphere like a second falling sun.
Witnesses reported that the sky split open in silence before impact—no thunder, no warning, only an intense glow that turned night into day for a few brief seconds.
The object measured approximately forty-five meters in diameter.
When it touched the ground, it wasn't only the earth that trembled.
Something invisible spread across the planet.
In the years that followed, children began to be born different. Some bent metal with their hands. Others altered gravity around their own bodies. There were those who set the air ablaze without a match, who manipulated electricity as an extension of their fingers, who touched concepts no one knew how to explain.
And then came the fear.
A decade after the Event of Light, the world went to war. Not one, but nine. Successive global conflicts, each more devastating than the last. Countries were erased from the map. The climate shifted. Oceans advanced. Ecosystems collapsed.
Humanity discovered that the true impact of the meteor was not the collision with the ground—it was the awakening of power.
The Element
Scientists called it Quenz.
An unknown element found in the cells of altered individuals. It fueled extraordinary abilities, functioning as a biological source of energy. Without it, powers did not exist.
But there was a problem.
Quenz was lethal to ordinary humans. Direct exposure resulted in poisoning or death by cellular radiation. Hospitals had to be separated. Protocols were created. Society slowly divided between those who carried Quenz in their blood and those who did not.
Today, about twenty percent of humanity manifests some kind of ability. Among other living beings, the number reaches forty percent.
Power has become something common.
And at the same time, far too dangerous.
The Organization
Hundreds of millions died in the World Wars that followed the Event. At the end of the first decade of destruction, twenty-nine countries signed a historic agreement.
SHIPSH was born.
An independent international organization created to regulate, monitor, and, if necessary, contain superpowered individuals. Its declared objective was simple: to prevent the world from destroying itself again.
It was meant to be neutral.
Free from political influence.
Above nations.
But power is rarely neutral.
Eight major powers—the richest, most armed, and most influential—assumed indirect control over the organization's structure. Although SHIPSH declares itself independent, its decisions frequently reflect strategic interests.
Even so, it is the only barrier between order and collapse.
SHIPSH classifies individuals according to threat level: from Class C to Class Alpha. A few, considered above Alpha, are not to be captured—they are to be eliminated.
Because there are powers that cannot be contained.
The Types
Over time, super beings were divided into nine major groups.
There are the Mega Beings, physically superior to nature itself.
The Meta-Physicals, who manipulate gravity, electricity, and even dimensions.
The Conceptualists, capable of touching invisible ideas such as dreams, sensations, or abilities.
The Specialists, nearly invincible under specific conditions.
The Carriers, unpredictable and mutable.
The Unlisted, anomalies not yet understood.
And finally, the exceedingly rare Special Classification—one in a billion—capable of altering the very structure of life or existence.
Not all survive their own gifts.
Some powers consume energy.
Others consume life.
The mortality rate among manifesters without proper treatment exceeds sixty percent.
Power is a gift.
And a sentence.
The Division
Humanity has never been so unequal.
Not only by wealth or territory.
But by biology.
People with Quenz in their blood possess genetic incompatibilities with ordinary humans. Fear gave rise to prejudice.
Prejudice gave rise to isolation. Isolation gave rise to conflict.
And in the midst of it all, there is a nation that does not play the game.
The Carmen Family governs a highly advanced archipelago, technologically superior to the rest of the world.
None of its members possess Quenz. They remain isolated, distrustful, and politically closed.
Centuries ago, the world carried out a massacre against the so-called person-animals outside its territory. Since then, Carmen recognizes no external authority.
They watch.
And they wait.
The world today is not the same as it was before the Light.
It is more powerful.
More fragile.
More divided.
And perhaps only at the beginning of something much greater.
Because the meteor did not bring only power.
It brought change.
And humanity has yet to decide what it will do with it.