Quantum Rip is set primarlily on an
Earth that closely resembles our own. At least untill you scratch the
surface, it does.
Dimension hopping aliens, that have come to be known as Travelers, have
been conducting genetic and cybernetic experiments on people. Their
primary goal is supposedly to study the effects these changes have on
the psychological make up of sentient beings. The Travelers seem to
take some perverse glee from it, though. The Travelers have been
stranded on this Earth, and scattered around the globe after their
installation was attacked by beings that call themselves Technothropes.
Trapped on an Earth that isn't their own, many Travelers have begun to
alter themselves to more easily survive. They continue to abduct and
change people, though now often as slave labor. Their preffered design
for slaves is the Pantherine human. Pantherines were inspired by, and
to some degree mock, the cat people that appear in so much human
fiction and mythology.
The Technothropes are the product of technomancy; the bizarre
combination of advanced technology and powerful magic. The creator of
technomancy, the Technomancer, seeks to rule his Earth, and has begun
to pool his power with technothropes on other Earths in an effort to
become powerful enough to defeat all the sorcerers who will try to stop
him. The introduction of such powerful magic to an Earth that was
previously lacking in any real supernatural forces has allowed a lot of
things that normaly hid in the shadows to become bolder. In many cases,
they've also become much stronger.
In the middle of all of this an organization calling itself the Special
Response Unit (S.R.U.) has risen to try to protect people from these
new, other worldy threats. Founded by Dr. Sarah Hancock, the S.R.U. was
originaly formed as a small, privately funded group of scientists and
investigators, tasked with uncovering illegal, unethical scientific
experimentation. Since the coming of the Travelers, they've grown
dramaticly, and have begun to see new sponsors, from private and
corporate sources. A few governments have even begun to aid them. The
S.R.U. is now an international organization. The comic revolves a round
a team of "irregulars" that the S.R.U. has assembled. The team includes
a Traveler victim who hasn't spoken in eight years, a six inch tall
dragon, a werewolf priest, a shapeshifting mystic healer who's bent on
patricide, a reluctant Technothrope, and a relatively normal guy with a
penchant for overpowered energy weapons.
Hate groups have also sprung up. So called geno-supremacists who target
the new "altered population." This encompases not only Traveller
victims, but also those who have been through mysticaly based metamorphosis.
They call for the sterilization and isolation of all such
people . Some of the more militant groups call for outright
extermination.
People around the world are beginning to understand why "May you live
in
interesting times." was considered a curse by the ancient Chinese.
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