Welcome back to the ENEMY ATLAS, a survey of LEVELS for the prospective STAGE ENEMY. This week, WORLD 2 – SKY WORLD!
AT A GLANCE….
Though SKY WORLD is something of a low-tier World of the FOBLIN EMPIRE, it’s a region with more than its share of fans. The enormous, whirling blades of these fans generate gusts of wind that can easily push a hapless intruder off of this World’s scaffolding, sending them tumbling into the fluffy clouds below. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Before Sky World was annexed by the Empire, it was ruled by the ONI, a race of horned imps that held court in the clouds. They mostly just left their World’s surface alone, and early Foblin settlers found the land beneath the clouds a rich, unspoiled paradise. Centuries of wholesale exploitation later, Sky World is a booming industrial center, hosting the third largest civilian population in the Empire. Its surface also rates just below Poison World on the Imperial TOXICITY RANKINGS, which is a matter of some local pride.
Enemies and residents have joined the Oni above the cloudscape, making homes for themselves atop towering metallic highrises, slick steel catwalks, and fan-propelled platforms with giant LED counters that count down when you step on them and then explode. Needless to say, it is very easy to lose your footing and fall to a horrible death – but if it’s not quite enough, this world’s top-shelf LASER CANNONS, flying mechanized DEATH DRONES, and LITTLE FLOATING SPIKE BALLS will help finish the job. That’s the spirit, SKY WORLD!
A GENEALOGICAL ASIDE
For reasons yet unknown, new variants of enemies have been emerging from Sky World over the past 3 centuries. These races – incl. PARA-FOBLINS, PARA-TOMATONS, and PARA-FLYING MECHANIZED DEATH DRONES – are characterized by being exactly the same as an existing type of Enemy, but with a pair of wings attached. Theories include a RECESSIVE GENE inherited from early intermingling with some long-extinct Sky World race; or, more likely, the wings could be a result of a population living for generations above a RADIATION-SOAKED TOXIC DEATH TRAP.
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