Post by Kyashi on Aug 28, 2010 23:01:36 GMT -6
One sad fact about the Trinity Blood series is that the author, Sunao Yoshida, passed away before he got a chance to finish telling his wonderful story. However, he DID in fact leave behind notes of what he was planning on including in future volumes of his work, and they have been translated into English.
I have a revised English paraphrased version of his notes here, originally taken from the BleachAsylum.com forums "Trinity Blood" fan club thread, although the poster could not give credit for where she found the notes because she had forgotten where the site was located. So, apologies for not giving credit where credit is due...
Anyways, this is a bit of a long post, but isn't that what you'd want it to be??
Trinity Blood: Stories Untold
Taken from the late Sunao Yoshida's Notes
In order for us to understand the story, we have to first understand what really happened 1,000 years before the time in which Trinity Blood was set. The late author, Yoshida-sensei, was able to leave scrapbooks and notes behind, which allows us to see how he would have wanted the story to continue:
It was around the year 2080 AD when the earth was experiencing a population boom. The earth had already reached a population of 12 billion, and humans were finding it hard to allocate resources. Because of this, the United Nations decided to start a project that aimed to build colonies on Mars. They called this “The Red Mars Project” in which the whole world also participated.
Upon the arrival of the first batch of people on Mars, they discovered this strange, alien artifact. Soon, they found out that this artifact was indeed left by aliens long ago, and that it contained a very advanced technology, which they called “Bachilus/Bacillus”. This Bachilus/Bacillus is actually a nano-machine which can be integrated into the body. It allows that person's body to adapt to the harsher conditions on Mars. The colonies decided to integrate this into their bodies, of course, and it gave them the ability to survive the Martian environment. In a sense, they became better than ordinary humans living on Earth.
Because of this, the world became very much interested in the Bachilus/Bacillus. Everyone else wanted to be able to integrate such things into their bodies, as well. Thus, the Armageddon started. This left Earth in a devastated state, wherein most of the world was destroyed by nuclear weapons. Only the continent of Europe was left, as it was mostly affected by biological weapons, hence even cathedrals were left standing. The human race was close to extinction. (This occurred around 2100 AD-ish.)
When the first batch of human colonizers from Mars decided to return to Earth (they were referred to as “Returners”) to try and see what had happened after Armageddon, they found that the earth was a wreck, and all technology that civilization had achieved was lost to the war. They helped the humans rebuild what was left. Life returned to the old days, reminiscent of the medieval ages. Of course, these “Returners” had the Bachilus/Bacillus in their blood, so they were, in effect, stronger and had lifespans of three-hundred years each.
The second batch of Returners came and they were very much against the human race, and this brought about a conflict, which almost left the humans crippled. The Returners did initially have the advantage. A war broke out between the Returners and the humans. This time came to be known as the “Dark Ages.” However, something happened to the Bachilus/Bacillus. Because of the difference in the various conditions between Earth and Mars, the Bachilus/Bacillus had somehow mutated into something that consumed its host's red blood cells. The brought about the need for blood for the host. Another effect was that they became very sensitive to the UV rays from the sun, hence they were unable to wander about during the daytime.
When the human race was losing hope, this Bachilus/Bacillus mutation gave them an advantage. With the help of the “Good Returners,” they were able to drive the rebel Returners to eastern Europe, hence, the reason for why, at the beginning setting of the Trinity Blood story, humans are living in western Europe, and the vampires in eastern Europe. Some Returners inhabit western Europe, but these are the ones on the humans' side, or those that were unable to flee to eastern Europe during the war.
The time when Trinity Blood is set is the time after this war...
The “Test Tube Babies” were created solely to be in charge of the Red Mars Project when the colonizers would be on Mars. They were genetically modified human beings that age 1.5 times slower than a normal human being. Lilith Sahl was born in South Asia, Cain in Berlin, Abel in London, and Seth in America.
Another 100,000 people were sent to Mars, though their purpose was not to live there, but, rather to prepare the Martian terrain for human inhabitants. At one point, several colonizers did not like their leader, Abel Nightroad, for some reason. They plotted against him, and decided to lure him out of a safe human grounds area into the Martian wilderness. He was left alone and he was about to die as he was running out of oxygen, and only Lilith came, in a car, to save him. However, Lilith's car broke down, so they were both in danger. This was when they found a strange spaceship and decided to explore it. The spaceship saved them somehow from dying in the Martian terrains.
In the spaceship, they found the dead, preserved bodies of aliens. Some of the bodies seemed to be more preserved than others, in particular, the bodies of what seemed to be the aliens with a high-ranking position. Their technology level seemed to be extremely high, as well, higher than that of Earth's. This spacecraft came to be known as “The Ark.” People took and examined the alien bodies. Seth was the one who discovered the Bacillus (Kudorak?) and another type of Bacillus which had a cross-shape, which she called “Crusnik.” It was so much harder to 'grow' these Crusniks, so much more difficult than growing the normal Bacillus. They failed many times trying to grow these abnormal nano-machines.
There was a terrible incident in which Cain and another colonizer had an accident while working on one of the projects. They were at the point of dying. Seth decided to inject them both with the Crusnik nano-machines in an attempt to save them. However, instead of saving them, it killed them both. Cain actually died... But, after a while, however, Cain just suddenly stoop up and became alive again. The other colonizer remained dead. (This was likely due to the fact that Cain was a genetically modified human, while the other colonizer was not.)
Because the spaceship discovery had such high technology, every other country wanted to gain possession of it. Among the colonizers were representatives of each country on Earth, and they all wanted to be the one in charge of the spaceship. This started a Martian civil war, which eventually destroyed their spaceship to return home, as well as their communication with Earth.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Armageddon was also happening for, more or less, the same reasons.
The Martians decided to build another spacecraft to return home, and this took well over 80 years. They modeled this spacecraft after “The Ark.”
The Returners called their spacecraft “The Ark,” as it was modeled after “The Ark” that they found on Mars. They successfully returned to Earth and found it in a very devastated state. The Returners vowed to help their 'fellow' human beings upon seeing this.
They looked for a relatively unpolluted place, which happened to be Europe and some surrounding areas. They parked their spacecraft above an African mountain. They created a lift/elevator from The Ark to the top of the mountain.
After a while, something happened to the Bacillus in their blood (as was explained earlier), perhaps because Earth is closer to the sun than Mars, and it increased the Bacillus' activity somehow. This, of course, produced the symptoms of vampirism. The Returners were killing Earthlings, in as much as they didn't want to. This created the rift between the Earth inhabitants and the Returners.
At this point, Cain had already fused his mind 100% with the Crusnik nano-machines in his blood, and he started to want to destroy the world (hence why 80% fusion is about as far as a Crusnik can go without risking losing their minds).
All the Nightroad siblings were on the Returner's side, unlike Lilith. They used their Crusnik power against the Earth inhabitants (Abel became Crusnik 02, after Cain became Crusnik 01, and Seth followed Abel, becoming Crusnik 03). This literally killed millions and millions of people (it is said that Abel, alone, slaughtered some 7 million humans during this war). Lilith became extremely upset because of this and she wanted to help the Earth inhabitants. She then decided to fuse herself with the Crusnik organisms and became “Crusnik 04.”
She went down and helped the Earth inhabitants, and made contact with Grigori (number unclear), the current Vatican Pope at that time. She gave them technology and supplied electricity to Budapest, Istvan, and etc. She commanded an army, which encountered a battle with Seth, Cain and Abel's army in Paris, in which the three Nightroad siblings lost to her. At this point, Lilith and the Earth people were winning.
Cain told Abel and Seth that he wanted to make peace and would like to talk with Lilith. In fact, he really just wanted to kill her. Lilith descended up The Ark to meet Cain, only to find out she was about to be killed. They battled for a while, Cain was heavily wounded during the incident, but Lilith was dead.
Abel found out about Cain's lie and that he had killed Lilith, and then suddenly went berserk. He threw Cain out of The Ark and started destroying it. Taking Lilith's body down to Earth, he was taken in by the Vatican.
Lilith was buried in an underground cemetery in Rome. Abel guarded her tomb for 900 years from then on...
...That is, until, one day, when a young teenage girl who was the daughter of the current Vatican Pope, ran into the underground cemetery to hide from vampire assassins. Her name was Caterina Sforza, and the story continues from there in the published novels.
I have a revised English paraphrased version of his notes here, originally taken from the BleachAsylum.com forums "Trinity Blood" fan club thread, although the poster could not give credit for where she found the notes because she had forgotten where the site was located. So, apologies for not giving credit where credit is due...
Anyways, this is a bit of a long post, but isn't that what you'd want it to be??
Trinity Blood: Stories Untold
Taken from the late Sunao Yoshida's Notes
In order for us to understand the story, we have to first understand what really happened 1,000 years before the time in which Trinity Blood was set. The late author, Yoshida-sensei, was able to leave scrapbooks and notes behind, which allows us to see how he would have wanted the story to continue:
It was around the year 2080 AD when the earth was experiencing a population boom. The earth had already reached a population of 12 billion, and humans were finding it hard to allocate resources. Because of this, the United Nations decided to start a project that aimed to build colonies on Mars. They called this “The Red Mars Project” in which the whole world also participated.
Upon the arrival of the first batch of people on Mars, they discovered this strange, alien artifact. Soon, they found out that this artifact was indeed left by aliens long ago, and that it contained a very advanced technology, which they called “Bachilus/Bacillus”. This Bachilus/Bacillus is actually a nano-machine which can be integrated into the body. It allows that person's body to adapt to the harsher conditions on Mars. The colonies decided to integrate this into their bodies, of course, and it gave them the ability to survive the Martian environment. In a sense, they became better than ordinary humans living on Earth.
Because of this, the world became very much interested in the Bachilus/Bacillus. Everyone else wanted to be able to integrate such things into their bodies, as well. Thus, the Armageddon started. This left Earth in a devastated state, wherein most of the world was destroyed by nuclear weapons. Only the continent of Europe was left, as it was mostly affected by biological weapons, hence even cathedrals were left standing. The human race was close to extinction. (This occurred around 2100 AD-ish.)
When the first batch of human colonizers from Mars decided to return to Earth (they were referred to as “Returners”) to try and see what had happened after Armageddon, they found that the earth was a wreck, and all technology that civilization had achieved was lost to the war. They helped the humans rebuild what was left. Life returned to the old days, reminiscent of the medieval ages. Of course, these “Returners” had the Bachilus/Bacillus in their blood, so they were, in effect, stronger and had lifespans of three-hundred years each.
The second batch of Returners came and they were very much against the human race, and this brought about a conflict, which almost left the humans crippled. The Returners did initially have the advantage. A war broke out between the Returners and the humans. This time came to be known as the “Dark Ages.” However, something happened to the Bachilus/Bacillus. Because of the difference in the various conditions between Earth and Mars, the Bachilus/Bacillus had somehow mutated into something that consumed its host's red blood cells. The brought about the need for blood for the host. Another effect was that they became very sensitive to the UV rays from the sun, hence they were unable to wander about during the daytime.
When the human race was losing hope, this Bachilus/Bacillus mutation gave them an advantage. With the help of the “Good Returners,” they were able to drive the rebel Returners to eastern Europe, hence, the reason for why, at the beginning setting of the Trinity Blood story, humans are living in western Europe, and the vampires in eastern Europe. Some Returners inhabit western Europe, but these are the ones on the humans' side, or those that were unable to flee to eastern Europe during the war.
The time when Trinity Blood is set is the time after this war...
The “Test Tube Babies” were created solely to be in charge of the Red Mars Project when the colonizers would be on Mars. They were genetically modified human beings that age 1.5 times slower than a normal human being. Lilith Sahl was born in South Asia, Cain in Berlin, Abel in London, and Seth in America.
Another 100,000 people were sent to Mars, though their purpose was not to live there, but, rather to prepare the Martian terrain for human inhabitants. At one point, several colonizers did not like their leader, Abel Nightroad, for some reason. They plotted against him, and decided to lure him out of a safe human grounds area into the Martian wilderness. He was left alone and he was about to die as he was running out of oxygen, and only Lilith came, in a car, to save him. However, Lilith's car broke down, so they were both in danger. This was when they found a strange spaceship and decided to explore it. The spaceship saved them somehow from dying in the Martian terrains.
In the spaceship, they found the dead, preserved bodies of aliens. Some of the bodies seemed to be more preserved than others, in particular, the bodies of what seemed to be the aliens with a high-ranking position. Their technology level seemed to be extremely high, as well, higher than that of Earth's. This spacecraft came to be known as “The Ark.” People took and examined the alien bodies. Seth was the one who discovered the Bacillus (Kudorak?) and another type of Bacillus which had a cross-shape, which she called “Crusnik.” It was so much harder to 'grow' these Crusniks, so much more difficult than growing the normal Bacillus. They failed many times trying to grow these abnormal nano-machines.
There was a terrible incident in which Cain and another colonizer had an accident while working on one of the projects. They were at the point of dying. Seth decided to inject them both with the Crusnik nano-machines in an attempt to save them. However, instead of saving them, it killed them both. Cain actually died... But, after a while, however, Cain just suddenly stoop up and became alive again. The other colonizer remained dead. (This was likely due to the fact that Cain was a genetically modified human, while the other colonizer was not.)
Because the spaceship discovery had such high technology, every other country wanted to gain possession of it. Among the colonizers were representatives of each country on Earth, and they all wanted to be the one in charge of the spaceship. This started a Martian civil war, which eventually destroyed their spaceship to return home, as well as their communication with Earth.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Armageddon was also happening for, more or less, the same reasons.
The Martians decided to build another spacecraft to return home, and this took well over 80 years. They modeled this spacecraft after “The Ark.”
The Returners called their spacecraft “The Ark,” as it was modeled after “The Ark” that they found on Mars. They successfully returned to Earth and found it in a very devastated state. The Returners vowed to help their 'fellow' human beings upon seeing this.
They looked for a relatively unpolluted place, which happened to be Europe and some surrounding areas. They parked their spacecraft above an African mountain. They created a lift/elevator from The Ark to the top of the mountain.
After a while, something happened to the Bacillus in their blood (as was explained earlier), perhaps because Earth is closer to the sun than Mars, and it increased the Bacillus' activity somehow. This, of course, produced the symptoms of vampirism. The Returners were killing Earthlings, in as much as they didn't want to. This created the rift between the Earth inhabitants and the Returners.
At this point, Cain had already fused his mind 100% with the Crusnik nano-machines in his blood, and he started to want to destroy the world (hence why 80% fusion is about as far as a Crusnik can go without risking losing their minds).
All the Nightroad siblings were on the Returner's side, unlike Lilith. They used their Crusnik power against the Earth inhabitants (Abel became Crusnik 02, after Cain became Crusnik 01, and Seth followed Abel, becoming Crusnik 03). This literally killed millions and millions of people (it is said that Abel, alone, slaughtered some 7 million humans during this war). Lilith became extremely upset because of this and she wanted to help the Earth inhabitants. She then decided to fuse herself with the Crusnik organisms and became “Crusnik 04.”
She went down and helped the Earth inhabitants, and made contact with Grigori (number unclear), the current Vatican Pope at that time. She gave them technology and supplied electricity to Budapest, Istvan, and etc. She commanded an army, which encountered a battle with Seth, Cain and Abel's army in Paris, in which the three Nightroad siblings lost to her. At this point, Lilith and the Earth people were winning.
Cain told Abel and Seth that he wanted to make peace and would like to talk with Lilith. In fact, he really just wanted to kill her. Lilith descended up The Ark to meet Cain, only to find out she was about to be killed. They battled for a while, Cain was heavily wounded during the incident, but Lilith was dead.
Abel found out about Cain's lie and that he had killed Lilith, and then suddenly went berserk. He threw Cain out of The Ark and started destroying it. Taking Lilith's body down to Earth, he was taken in by the Vatican.
Lilith was buried in an underground cemetery in Rome. Abel guarded her tomb for 900 years from then on...
...That is, until, one day, when a young teenage girl who was the daughter of the current Vatican Pope, ran into the underground cemetery to hide from vampire assassins. Her name was Caterina Sforza, and the story continues from there in the published novels.