Further research of the South Pole was unnecessary due to the success of the 1st galaxy development project. The South Pole which was once highlighted as the training site of galaxy planet environment adaptation gradually disappeared from the people’s attention. After the 4th galaxy development project succeeded, it degraded into a place as a research site for some amateur scholars full of curiosity or where retired scholars killed time. Humanity was advancing continuously toward someplace else further than the South Pole.
Soburg Ivanovic, a retired biologist, was a scholar of the ARCANE club. As the word ARCANE means ‘mysterious’, scholars and amateur researchers of the ARCANE club gathered to study areas neglected from the academic mainstream, such as mysteries in history or the origin of civilization. The classic academic mainstream ignored the ARCANE club’s publications, considering it simply as a social gathering of rich millionaires and wealthy leisured ladies. The mainstream looked coldly upon theories without any scientific evidence or verification from a reliable authorization as always. Soburg Ivanovic was a biologist who came to the South Pole after his retirement in order to study creatures in the polar region. Heading to the South Pole when it was announced that there was no other living creature undiscovered by human, did not receive much attention. Also, being a member of the ARCANE club helped making a funny caricature of him. He was treated as a queer person at least before he discovered the ARCANE virus which is known as the cause of Dimens Syndrome (Dimens- Latin, mad as crazy, vicious).
The ARCANE virus was found under several hundred meters of frozen land in the South Pole, and lighted fire on the scholars’ passion. From the excitement of discovering a new living creature on Earth, he brought the virus straight to his research room. The ARCANE virus was alive despite the thousands, even hundreds of thousand years in ice. It was hibernating until it is placed under sunlight again like a bear.
Soburg Ivanovic carefully melted the ice and defrosted the virus. He was agitated from the pride of breaking the academic world’s accepted theory that discovering a new organism was absolutely impossible, and the excitement of leaving his name down in the history of biology. However, he never knew in his dreams that his acts would become the prologue of the end of humanity. The defrosted ARCANE virus immediately penetrated into his brain. At first Soburg Ivanovic and his colleagues thought they caught a simple cold with mild fever and headache. All of them were infected by the virus in less than one day.
They showed extreme desires for destruction and an abnormal aggression, trying to kill each other. Their lust after human blood killed themselves in the end.
A transport ship which came regularly to the South Pole reported this tragedy at the base and carried back the bodies. Once they sailed out of the South Pole, the ARCANE virus spread throughout the Earth in a flash. The dreadful contagiousness of the ARCANE virus was worse than any other virus discovered by man. Humans on the Earth showed the same aggression as Soburg Ivanovic and his colleagues, killing each other and finally shooting ultimate radiation-strengthened weapons to Mars, Saturn, the moon, and Jupiter’s satellite, Io where human existed in the solar system. People on Mars and Saturn also shot radiation-strengthened weapons toward Earth for self-protection. Humanity in the solar system was heading toward self-destruction.
Humans who moved to other parts of the galaxy with the Earth Union as the matrix were shocked from the news at home. They created and sent a rescue party and investigation team to Earth and other planets of the solar system. However, the planets were already contaminated with radiation and turned into lands of death. All living creatures were completely destroyed from direct attacks from nuclear explosions and indirect damages from radioactive dust. Tremendous amounts of radioactive dust and particulates covered the sky. Earth, once called as the green planet, was turned into a frozen, dead land with no warmth at all. The investigation team realized it was no use expecting survivors from Earth and planets. Just before the downfall of Earth and the solar system was buried forever as a mystery, a biologist from the investigation team found the ARCANE virus being still alive.
The ARCANE virus still survived the terrible heat of nuclear explosions and radiation. They suspended animation and were hibernating just like when Soburg Ivanovic first found them. The discovery of the ARCANE virus brought a huge misfortune to the solar system investigation team. Half of the team immediately started to kill each other, and those exposed to the virus showed abnormal aggression and turned into a killing machine. The investigation team realized what happened on Earth and the solar system after they lost most of the members. Sector B-13, the military camp base of the 4th galaxy development plan, was the new center of administration after the downfall of the solar system. The Sector B-13 government named the extreme aggression and disruption induced from the ARCANE virus as the Dimens syndrome, and regulated the ARCANE virus as a forbidden organism. Earth and the solar system gradually disappeared from the people’s attention. Humanity of the galaxy started another march, leaving the misfortune of their home planet in the ocean of oblivion.
