Very unique idea, but I would like clarification on some things if you will.
1) Currently, our year is right around 2017, give or take few years. Could you adapt your character to fit this time in our canon?
(As a note to the above, I have a feeling you mean 2555 as the year of your characters home planet, please clarify.)
Yes, in her universe the current year is 2555 A.D. The reason for the year difference, is not completely understood by Noxis at this point. When it was 2000 in this universe (not exactly dated, so let's use 2000) the Resonance Cascade happened. The rift in the Noxis Universe was open much longer (~300 years or more longer). They currently believe that no universe around theirs had any events causing a tear, which led to the rift looping back in on itself; but when this universe had the Resonance Cascade, there was an opportunity for their universe to connect. The odds of the two universes being close enough for the link to occur, and the odds that both had events that caused it are rare. This is the primary reason of Dr. Shefield's visit, to investigate what this universe is like, how different/similar it is to theirs, and gain other knowledge.
2) Based on the assumption of her being an alien life form (alien to human anyways), does she look any different from a human being?
She is identical to a human being, as in her universe Humans expanded from the stars (with major help of Noxis) around 2075.
3) Please provide some information about where she is from, what it is like there, information on technology there, ect. Anything and everything is good to know.
Her official birthplace is not known (she thinks she came originally from Earth but only the Directors know if she was one of the originals or a clone), but there is a high chance the majority of the humans currently residing on the CA station are in fact clones of the ones that were born on Earth, however they do not know this. The CA station is a massive Noxis Built station orbiting Sagittarius A*. There are a couple reasons for it's rather strange locations. The first being that the black hole their is an anchor point for their Gate network. (Following the discovery of a strange new type of particle in Jupiter, Gates were developed over a period of 25 years.) The station is around the size of a small asteroid, and was built mainly by robots. It took around 300 years to complete (In the mean time all of the Noxis Employees were either in Cryo Stasis or cloned once it was finished.) Noxis has some advanced technology in certain fields, but has very low tech in others. In the fields of Inter/Intra Space Dynamics, Physics, Most medical fields, some FTL communication/travel (Communication using entanglement and travel being FuseWarp and Gate travel) and propulsion along with some more advanced forms of life support systems and artificial gravity. They are getting closer to discovering Blue Space energy (Zero Point Energy) but are currently unable to do so. They have very little weaponry past the 21st century as Noxis never developed weapons (There was no need, they never found alien lifeforms while they were expanding, and during their reign humans were united.)
4) What interaction has her home world had with the Combine, if any?
They currently have never encountered the Combine, as they currently have one known rift. However I have included a recent document from an unknown source regarding a possible second rift.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32793717/Noxis/00-662.12%28MILKYWAY%29.png)
An attached note says "We have found new evidence in space-time disruptions on a massive scale between the Core, and ASA space."
Thanks, also, please note that the above questions do not mean this will be accepted- they are simply questions that would need to be answered before it could be considered, if it's not too far fetched.
=====Introduction and Beginning=====
The Noxis Corporation terraformed the majority of the initial habitable sectors of the solar system. They started out on earth as a small company, one that's aim was toward the stars. They officially started in May 3rd, 2015; this was just a research firm however. The Noxis that started the colonization era truly started near 2035. Up until this point they were researching countless new technologies; most of them, as expected, to do with the colonization of space. There were advances in other fields too, such as teleportation, quantum flux particle harvesting (a term coined by Noxis themselves), and advanced weapon systems. The ball started rolling when they bought out OxyGen, who was the leading Oxygen and LOX supplier in the world. They soon refitted all of their newly acquired facilities with the secret technology which, compared to all of the other companies, was decades above it's time. They even had a project, officially called "Matter Transmission and Reshapeafication", but within the research branch it was simple called "The Creator". This project would allow them to take any matter, from anywhere in this universe, and convert it into any other matter. Quickly after the first tests, the project was shut down; for you see, it not only took away atoms, but also chucks of time and space, leaving a hellish black hole. They quickly got to work on attempting to fix this horrid mistake, and they gave up on the whole idea of this. Meanwhile, the teleportation teams successfully teleported small mammals across the globe.
=====The Beginning of the Colonization Era=====
Soon after they bought OxyGen, Noxis became the seller of 70% of all oxygen sales in 2036, and 100% of all oxygen sales in 2040. They saw profits that were higher than the combined budgets of all the governments of earth. They began a civilian colonization era, and with their new fusion powered propulsion systems called the "FuseWarp", travel was changed completely. No one is sure how it works, as it was a closely guarded secret, but all that is known is that it turns 1 month of travel into 1 minute. Scaled down versions for travel shorter also were in production, which were nicknamed "Micro-Fuses". They were the starters of colonies all across Sol. By the year 2050, every planet, except Uranus as it had no useful resources, had some form of human civilization on, or in orbit of it. Jupiter was the focus of all of the gas giants, as it contained a strange element previously unknown to mankind. It exhibited the ability to control the mass of ships unlike any other. It was impossible to recreate it in a lab, and it only existed in Jupiter.
=====The First Gates=====
No one knew where it came from or how it was created. Noxis quickly jumped up and bought out any company who dared to research this new element. It took 25 years, but they found a way to make a 'gate' type structure in which ships could pass through and appear instantly on the other side. This creation came with disadvantages too. The way the gate worked is that the nearest 3 systems could not be gated too. Noxis researchers claimed that when the gates were closer than this, they created an unstable wormhole and instantly vaporized anything that entered and even took out the gate in a huge explosion. This took out about 67% of all solar systems in the galaxy, but this didn't stop the expansion.
=====The Age of Galactic Colonization=====
It was a brand new age of exploration and colonization, the year being 2075; Noxis was so powerful at this point that they were the only thing
that governed the people. There was no form of government other than Noxis. Every human was perfectly happy with this. It seemed like Noxis had become the most powerful entity in the galaxy, but something happened. In the dawn of the 31st century, humanity had colonized every system they could - keeping in mind the 3 system spacing rule - but an event happened that was only known as the "Eternal Darkness", which was dated around 2156.
=====The Eternal Darkness=====
The causes are completely unknown, but suddenly all of the gates linked back to each other. This cut of every system from each other, as the "FuseWarp" drives could not safely cross the region between systems. At first it wasn't bad, but soon the gates would become so unstable that they emitted massive amounts of Gamma Rays and would explode in a supernova fashioned explosion. This was a chain reaction, and it nearly destroyed the entire galaxy. Luckily, the Orion-Cygnus, Carina-Sagittarius, and Norma/Outer arms of the galaxy shut down their gates in time before the chain reactions hit them. This still left all of the systems isolated.
=====The Great Isolation=====
Sol had been completely depleted of its resources, and was deemed uninhabitable and left. The gate was completely dismantled. Out of the hundreds of systems that were colonized, only 4 survived with their own support, while the others died out. The gates were left in disarray. These were the only 4 solar systems - not far from each other - that still harbored human life in the year 2281. Two of the systems found the old gates and mistakenly turned them back on, which triggered the same effect before - but as these were the only two gates online, it didn't destroy every system, just those two - and were wiped out.
=====Noxis's fate=====
Noxis had all but vanished at this point. However, the secret branch of CA08 set up a permanent station in the middle of the galaxy around the year 2135. This station was massive; it dwarfed the size of Pluto. This station was mostly empty, for it was a backup plan in case the worst happened. It was a cryogenic storage station, and it cryogenically froze all of the important Noxis members. These members were left in a deep sleep while the chaos of the galaxy happened.
=====A New Beginning=====
Over 420 years passed, with the two systems developing their own cultures and technologies. They soon found the gates, but never used them and put them up as a warning sign of what huge mega-corps could do to humanity. Despite this, Nanotrasen came into existence. Nanotrasen was known to all, but had many enemies. Almost everyone forgot what Noxis was, since the old gates never had the name Noxis on them. No one ever found the CA08 Station either. Around 2549, the station suddenly woke up. It was well over the 200 year set time limit. The Fusion reactor had failed at that mark, and the station ran on backup power. But by 2548, the power was failing. The automated system woke up everyone in stasis and they woke up confused. But what the public did not know is that every gate had a remote connection to the station, and the gates acted as a huge spy satellite network. The commanding officers saw that humanity was nearly wiped out, and was now 'owned' by Nanotrasen. They were furious. Not because Nanotrasen existed, not even because Nanotrasen was the highest power, but because they didn't suffer the exile Noxis did. Noxis fixed the power issues in their station, and used it to live and plan. They
still had all of their old files, all the way from the beginning. They planned a shadow government system, which mirrored Nanotrasen's system. Lucky for them their medical doctors found a way to make genetically perfect human beings, along with cloning. Death was no longer a fear for Noxis. With their advanced brain implants, and vastly intelligent AI systems, they found a way to open the old gates covertly and close them before they were spotted and before the reaction took place.
=====The current time=====
With this new ability, Noxis has the sole goal to terrorize any and every part of Nanotrasen. They covertly sent in agents to their stations using their improved shuttle designs. The shuttles go through the disembarkation gate at the CA08 Station, and enter the target system. With the new drives that were invented - which were required since most of Humanity's new solar systems were located in systems without gates - the vast distances between solar systems became easy to cross in mere seconds. To this day there are millions of Noxis Agents out in the field, collecting not only data, but slowly working towards bringing Nanotrasen down. Their ways are covert, and their methods are secretive. They even take out a target and disguise themselves as said target, to gain more access to the world of Nanotrasen. Their main targets are CentComm stations, and CentComm funded stations. With nearly unlimited resources and time, Noxis will not stop their campaign until Nanotrasen is brought down, and humanity is once again controlled by Noxis.
I have included a (WIP) history regarding Noxis to provide you with insight, however it only includes one faction (NanoTrasen). (In addition the history needs some rewriting to take into account other things that have changed, and I haven't done so yet.) There is another faction that has been at peace with the rest, under the name "Allied System Alliance". They currently have been spotted in the remains of the Cygnus arm. Let me know if you want more information on anything.
I edited this at 4:12 PM 2/14/2012 to change and correctly answer the first question. I mis-read it, in addition in that section I provided more details as to Dr. Shefield's goal of visiting.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32793717/Noxis/G-020-01.png)
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A declassified document regarding the Gate System and how it works.
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32793717/Noxis/E-70-11.png)
In case the image fails to load (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32793717/Noxis/E-70-11.png)
A recent document attached to the hypothesis of "Multi-Universal Linkage" roughly drawn.
(Sorry for the terribleness of the drawing, and the fact that you can see it on the other side.)
I edited this at 9:48 PM 2/14/2012 to include two drawings regarding the Gate System and the Multi-Universal Linkage Hypothesis.
I edited this at 5:00 PM 2/15/2012 to fix the answer to Question 1. I re-read it after I was not tired (wrote it in the morning :p) and noticed it would cause a ton of problems (time speed different) so I replaced it with another hypothesis. Sorry for the changed answer, but the speed of time being different causes major problems.
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