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MATT HAWKINSwriter

STJEPAN SEJICartist

TROY PETERIletterer

BETSY GONIAeditor

STJEPAN SEJICCovers A & B

LINDA SEJICCover C

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Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias boredom.

Arthur C. Clarke, Childhoods End

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The Aphrodite Protocol was initiated in the late 20th

Century in an attempt to save humanity from a predicted extinction level event that became reality in the year

2102 AD.

The Protocol successfully engineered and evolved

humans into new species that survived in this new world

via technological singularity and genetic enhancement.

The architect of the Protocol created nine heirs to rule over this new world. They were placed in hibernation for seven hundred years to be activated in what became known as the ASCENSION; the year 2802, when the self-proclaimed Gods of the IXth Generation took control.

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APHRODITE IX

ARTEMIS IX

HEPHAESTUS IX

APOLLO IX

ATHENA IX

HERMES IX

ARES IX

HADES IX

POSEIDON IX

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