Feud of Three Worlds

This article is pending a merge with Rise of the Phaelites and What is Nin-Chyo?, as those novels will be condensed into one.

First Meethlites is Issue #2 of The Gerosha Chronicles, Volume 1, Origins. It is a pivotal story in the greater Gerosha mythos of Dozerfleet Comics, establishing the distinct look of the Meethlite alien ethnicity, and of its descendents in the Hebbleskin Gang.

First Meethlites
A reclusive scientist on Metheel, known as Shortimo, decides that the Meethlite nation needs a way to differentiate itself from the Earth nations that once helped form it. A new look for a new world. His mentor also perfects a technique to create what are called "Meethexos," or "Meethlite Experiment's Offspring." Others in the nation are skeptical of him; until he does something so radical, it changes the landscape of Meethlite politics forever. He alters his own skin and nose at a genetic level, becoming the first "graphite" Meethlite.

A tyrannical regime seizes the thrown that once belonged to Zeras, and thrusts all of Metheel into civil war. One of Shortimo's formulas is stolen - the one for graphite skin. Other scientists are put to work by the regime to replicate Shortimo's success. Another one of Shortimo's formulas is given to the resistance that forms, one for green skin. Green Meethlites are dawned.

Shortimo also uses his discoveries to help the Green Meethlites colonize Metheel's planetary twin, Phaeleel. However, the new Meethlite nation forces the Earth-like and Green Meethlites to Phaeleel, turning it into a prison colony. As the Earth-like Meethlites that remained on Metheel lose the war, they are gradually altered or eradicated by the regime. Metheel becomes a world officially inhabited by a mutated subspecies of man that looks distinctly alien, with graphite skin. However, its prison colony world of Phaeleel is not content to remain subservient forever. The Green Meethlites sent to live on Phaeleel begin referring to themselves as "Phaelites," and begin advocating for their rights. To keep them down, the Meethlites begin work on Meethexos that will keep the Phaelites down. They emphasize two types: werewolves, and Milthuen Prototypes.

Rise of the Phaelites
After some time has gone by, the Phaelites have grown in number on their homeworld. The still-Earthlike humans living on Phaeleel in prison colonies begin dying off, as their Meethlite overlords don't allow them to breed. A new Hebbleskin Order takes the reins of power on Metheel, bent on seizing absolute control. It decides that Earth will be its new target for conquest, with its Meethexos ready to go. Unable to master True Milthuens, they begin to seriously explore the possibility of creating a Milthuen Prototype. They begin generating werewolves as well.

However, the Phaelites prepare to strike back with Phexos of their own: Vampires, Centhuen Prototypes, and a few other oddities they've cooked up. And they prepare to bring a faction to war to battle the Hebbleskin Order there if necessary. When a major figure named Blazarik heads to Phaeleel to make the genocide of Phaelites official, a freedom fighter named Dephinol begins abducting human slaves from prison plantations and recruiting them for experimentation. The Phaelites rise up, and a revolution begins to overthrow Meethlite oppression over Phaeleel.

Dephinol's successful uprising spurs an undying hatred for all things Phaelite by all of Meethlites. However, an even worse regime arrives and exiles the Hebbleskin Order to Earth to serve as its agents. A band of Phaelites heads to Earth as well, where it ends up being an only somewhat-kept secret of the US government. The Hebbleskin Order, however, finds itself forced to turn to organized crime to survive. The Hebbleskin Gang is born.

However, due to the Hebbleskins' predecessors being sloppy on Earth missions, the Society of the Icy Finger managed to get a hold of the Marlquaanite rubies. One ruby in particular, the Beamer's Ruby, had found new purpose as Hester's locket, being kept away from both Society and Hebbleskin reach due to the cunning of John Domeck and his friends.

The stage is set. Phaelite scientists stranded on Earth would work with the US government in secret to build the resources needed to counteract the Hebbleskin Gang.

What is Nin-Chyo?
After a humiliating defeat, General Feng Shoo and his army are pushed into some snowy mountains. It is in these mountains that a Marlquaan storm occurs, and the side of a hill is hit. Going off to investigate on his own, Feng Shoo discovers a large pile of a mysterious blue substance. He decided to call it "nin-chyo." However, his efforts to keep it concealed under his lead case only last for a short time. An over-curious soul decides to steal some of it, and ends up creating a firework that poisons an entire village. However, direct exposure to it results in his body disintegrating. Feng takes heed of the implications, insisting that the nin-chyo be kept where it cannot harm anyone else.

While he does manage to hide it, rumor of it spreads. Fights break out in a quest for it, to secure its dangerous power. As time passes, it becomes a thing of legend. When merchant Zhin Loo makes a poorly-calculated journey with his daughter Min to France during the French Revolution, he ends up being blown away along with his ship by aggressive revolutionaries. Min is captured. Her last words on the guillotine were: "nin-chyo!!!"

This story remains in the Marrington family, where it eventually comes into the possession of Rob Marrington. The information helps Rob and Hannah understand that they were meant, from long ago, to be the ones to destroy the Ming-Cho.

Development
Shortly after the October 2010 premise for both Ciem: Vigilante Centipede and The Tragedy of Lord Zeras were forged, it became readily apparent that more stories would be needed to segue into the continuity elements of timeline for The Battle for Gerosha. It was decided that a story needed to be made that dealt specifically with how the Meethlites, descended from Earth humans, came to have their distinct "graphite-like" skintone and appearance; and also to show where they first began the creation of Meethexos. First Meethlites was quickly ruled as a viable candidate of a story that could do exactly that.

In February of 2013, the Origins collection of concept art stills made with The Sims 3 kicked into high gear. Due to how attention-demanding works like Experiments and Offspring proved to be, only one concept still was made in that season for First Meethlites: That of Shortimo on horseback. It was deemed likely that First Meethlites would be on the production shelf for a long time, while other works were fleshed out and actually written/produced, so the package was prepared in advance to have a long shelf life before being written.

The shortcomings of First Meethlites mostly revolved around it not having enough of a scope to handle the arrival of Phaelites as a true and equal rival to Meethlites, thus prompting the story's merger with Rise of the Phaelites and What is Nin-Chyo? into a single compilation.

Rise of the Phaelites was first proposed as a possible tale in October of 2010. Its rationale was that First Meethlites only had enough scope to cover half of the story bridging the gap between The Tragedy of Lord Zeras and Experiments and Offspring. Later, it was found to not even cover that. Of Angels and Icicles and Lohtz helped to further define elements of Gerosha mythos that would become extremely relevant much later. None of these, however, seemed to address the issue of how Phaeleel and Metheel became two different nations; one with graphite-color-skinned natives and the other with green-skinned natives. Rise of the Phaelites was developed as a bridge to account for that. It is set around the same general time period as the American Revolution or Napoleon's rise in France, thus influencing that look for its characters.

In February of 2013, Blazarik Kripanol and Dephinol Wilmarick were formally defined in appearance for the first time, so that the chief protagonist and antagonist could give a face to the story.

What is Nin-Chyo? was first envisioned as a story possibility in October of 2010, around the same time as The Tragedy of Lord Zeras, First Meethlites, and Rise of the Phaelites. It was part of a set that preceded The Battle for Gerosha and that tied in with the beginning of Ciem: Vigilante Centipede. When that story was abandoned in favor of Sodality, the prequel stories were kept.

While season 3 of Sodality depends on What is Nin-Chyo? to explain the Ming-Yo and its origins better, just as previously did Ciem: Nuclear Crisis; the story's main focus is on providing the Ming-Cho with an origin story. While a prequel to much of Gerosha continuity overall, the story was intended first and foremost as a prequel to Path of the Ming-Cho.

Characters relevant to it, like Zhin and Min Loo, were defined as long ago as 2006, where they'd have been referenced in the 2006 Despair Gerosha version of Path. General Feng Shoo, however, was not visually defined until February of 2013.