The planet Iona was a blue marble floating in the vast expanse of space. A big blue marble filled with diverse creatures and environments, with one species being the undisputed ruler of the planet. The Human.

Human history shows many periods of progress, collectively forwarding the entire race, starting with humans first discovering fire and ending with nuclear warheads detonating in deserts. The humans showed significant growth in their technology and culture.

There is one significant impact on society that changed everything.

The Great Upheaval was a period in time that lasted for 200 years. The humans found a new energy source that they called mana. It came gradually and affected people at random. It is unsure who exactly was the first to develop mana. Regardless it caused a domino effect that would change society forever.

When Superhumans, now known as Rankers, caused civil unrest after being more of a common occurrence among the newborns

The idea of millions of superpowered humans being able to conjure fire and rip apart steel without effort was intimidating. Many people were still unable to defend themselves from such a power.

Some countries implemented harsh laws made to target these new superhumans. Tensions grew since this reminded most of past injustice and segregational statutes implemented in history. In some places, the governments in power forced the superhumans to do their bidding. Eventual superpowered riots that would devastate cities became commonplace in such countries. In the early days, mana was volatile, and people couldn't control their powers.

The next generation of humans seems to have more control over this new energy source. Mana is a double-sided coin, allowing babies to be born healthier and humans to live past their natural lifespan and commit unnatural feats. Unfortunately, those who weren't well-adapted would grow sick and fall unresponsive to those around them and, on most occasions, explode.

Around 180 years passed after the initial upheaval, and groups of strange people were spotted everywhere, seeming to appear out of nowhere. These strangers had pronounced differences from humans. Some had green skin somewhere short and stout, and some with plant-like flesh instead of normal skin. These otherfolk came with a warning that soon a great cataclysm would happen to this planet. Some otherfolk were dangerous and would attack indiscriminately those who approached.

The people did not listen to these strangers, but soon after, beasts started to change. They were already affected by mana, but now they seem to be evolving rapidly. Some otherfolk claim to be from another world, where their world experienced an apocalyptic event that caused their planet to split into many pieces. Most people still did not believe them since there were questions about how their world fractured and how they could speak our language. The otherfolk didn't have good enough answers for the humans, causing suspicions.

They claimed their gods saved what they could by sending the pieces of the world into different subspaces, but the type of magic they used was unstable and would cause a similar event to that one on this planet. The answers to follow-up questions were unsatisfactory. The humans did not like the idea that there are gods in a different world, but the gods the humans worship are not legitimate by otherfolk standards.

The otherfolks spoke of gods the humans haven't heard of and mentioned monsters found in human mythology. All of this brought into question the legitimacy of the otherfolks entirely. Twenty years later, the Collision finally arrived.

It happened suddenly and all at once. The world shook, the lands ripped apart at their seams, the sky cried thunder, and the seas churned and boiled. Millions died at the first impact and no one knew what was truly going on. The planet grew.

The pieces of the alien world were causing this new one to grow in size and accommodate the new landmass, the new oceans, and the new skies. Mana stirred like ocean currents as creatures appeared unseen to humans before. Floods caused mass destruction and hundreds of thousands more deaths.

After the initial impact, the superhumans drove the beast waves away. The otherfolk cried out. They should have listened to them sooner and prepared. Not only did monsters appear, but the rest of the other folk appeared with their own countries and land. The humans blamed the otherfolk, accusing them of causing this great disaster, but the otherfolk no longer cared. They warned the humans, and they did not listen. They let them fend for themselves; the humans called them refugees who came to take over their planet.

The humans alive during this great Collision called themselves the first generation, and they decided they needed to take back the planet and adapt to the crazy world that lay before them. Seeing the humans adapt to this bizarre and foreign situation, the gods from the other world gave the humans a gift called the system.

It was created by the God of information and later given to every creature on the planet. The God of mana saw the turbulent energy and decided to take measures into their own hands. Using the God of information's system as a template, they limited an individual's mana from an early age to allow them to normally develop until they are mature enough to handle the strain of mana. The humans had no idea why the gods would do something like this. Help them? Limit them? Although the humans now start a bit weaker, they have an invaluable system that now allows them to have the information about their skills and abilities at the tips of their fingers. Information is power.

The system caused the moniker ranker amongst humans to appear, as the system graded everything in a series of ranks. And from the first generation, there were many great and powerful rankers. The Conqueror was a ranker that wasn't well known, his identity was an open secret, but he was a tyrant on behalf of the people. He reclaimed land lost during the Collision and gave it back to those who needed it. He is no longer here, but the only one left of his blood wakes from his slumber.