| Type | Interstellar Megacorporation |
| Location | Earth |
| Featured in | Rook: Exodus |
Better-World™ was a Earth corporation that existed in the 2150s. It was featured in "Rook: Exodus."
Overview[]
Better-World™ primarily was invested in applying advanced technology with environmental sciences, terraforming and spearheading colonization efforts.
History[]
In 2152 they purchased a planet in the Kepler System, Planet F. And a year later they rebranded the planet as Exodus. Exodus was then prepared for terraforming by Better-World™.
In 2148 the corporation began advertising for people to start new lives on Exodus. At the time the political and environmental situation on Earth was already deteriorating, with new super fires emerging, earthquakes devasting cities, public riots, media blackouts, mass flooding, overpopulation, dwindling resources, outbreaks of war, etc. Thousands of people took the offer to escape the dying Earth, hoping for a new life on Exodus. Though many holdouts refused to abandoned their homes.
Exodus was made into a colony with infrastructure by 2159. However by 2163 the situation on Earth became so dire, that many had no choice but to flee to Exodus, though some were unable to afford passage to the stars and were left on Earth.
Better-World™ promised a world, complete with clean air, clean water, optimal climate, and a beauty of Earth that was better. Exodus was meant to be a world where it was guaranteed that there would be no pollution, poverty or overpopulation.
Every aspect of Nature on Exodus was under technological governance, programmed and commanded to create a utopia. From the weather to the animal life was controlled and made to be perfect. The entire ecological systems on Exodus were monitored and controlled through engineered nature. From its Weathermen who were charged in maintaining the pristine weather of the planet to the Wardens, who were each trained to control a single animal species.
However disaster struck in 2170 when the World Engine, the device which made Exodus into a life-sustaining world failed. Better-World™ having no way to repair the engine then began evacuating the colonists en-masse in 2171 to return to Earth.
Unfortunately they left behind many of their employees, who were promised by the corporation that they would be returned for. However by 2173 no rescue came nor any communication from Earth had been received. Life on Exodus by then soon turned into a dystopia nightmare where the weather was becoming unpredictable, to giant mutating aggressive animals, the rule of law was abandoned and where only survival of the fittest mattered.
Those sane on Exodus, figured that they had been abandoned and opted to attempted to flee to the stars themselves on their own, using cobbled starships, though many were met with death, failing to escape.