Puppeteers of Physics

 “omnes pro omnibus”

The Pupeteers of Physics are a fictional corporation founded in 1910. The basic premise of the company is that they can make anything and everything, and so they have monopolized 60% of the entire world’s products market.

History

The story of the Pupeteers of Physics begins back in November of 1890. A poor yet intelligent man named Isaac Popper was allowed to lead a mining team down a large cave system called Caverna Nueva. In there, with one sole mission of mining for coal, they all discover something else. After chipping away a thin wall of rock, they find an enormous glowing orb. After talking to each other, the orb begins to create things that they mention, and so they begin experimenting. It isn’t long until they figure out the abilities of this orb.

After years of coming back and experimenting, eventually the mining company goes bankrupt and in the place of Caverna Nueva, the first POP facility is made. The founders, Isaac Popper, Nixon Fury, and Simon Evergreen, begin working on new products. They start with producing mining tools and equipment, the most sophisticated ever. They create a good cover story on how they made such advanced tools.

POP begins expanding into new product types. One day though, Isaac kills the other founders in an effort to keep the company to himself. In 1940 when Isaac is getting old and frail, he gives command of the company to his son, Clark Popper.

Clark revolutionizes POP, by playing himself a wild card. Instead of taking the products slow, he mass-produces, and instead of creating an excuse to this magic, he reveals information about the orb to the public. Although astonished, the public cannot go near or even see photos of the orb.

Vanessa Popper is the new head of POP in 1970. She industrializes everything, establishing POP as a modern, even futuristic monstrously large corporation. The facilities are moved from the small town in Texas of Mundo Largo to the large town of Los Dioses, California. She also dubs the powerful orb the “Paradox Point”, after her and a science department figure out that the orb is actually unstable because of a paradox that happened a long time ago. It was made known that the Paradox Point would be harmed by causing paradoxes, so they refrain from doing that. Vanessa also develops a system of levels of destruction of the Paradox Point using a simulation.

In 1999 after Vanessa’s unexpected chronically illness, she passes her command to Vincent Popper. Vincent Popper was considered to be the smartest when it came to marketing and what products they made. Vincent stuck to the biggest trends, and was said to have never missed on any products and marketing tactics they made and used.

Vincent’s reign was shortlisted though, as he no longer wished to have the stress of maintaining such a large business. So, in 2018, Vincent passed his command down to his son, Oskar Popper. Oskar was admittedly average, but more than anyone, he knew business. Oskar maintained POP’s stock growing, never having a noticeable low. Oskar had many ambitions, but these would be shortlived.

One day, the Paradox Point had reached Stage 3. This meant that for it to continue working it needed to be repaired as soon as possible. Thanks to Vanessa’s work, they knew that the Paradox Point could not just be repaired. It needs to first reach level 5 to be repaired, to do so, a paradox needs to happen. Oskar began work on a multi-step project. They took one of POP’s random janitors and brought him into a room, forcing him to enable the carefully crafted “Alligator Paradox”. After he did, the Paradox Point was corrupted, which also corrupted POP’s V2 Void (created under Oskar’s ownership). This corrupted Void spread throughout the facilities, killing many and infecting others.

The next step of the plan was to hire a random person to fix the paradox point. This person was Cole Banks, a random but brave and hard-working individual. After 8 months of Cole staying as a Paperboy for POP, they finally enact their plan by imprisoning him and allowing him to be broken free if he fixes the paradox point. It’s a deal he can’t refuse. He’s accidentally sucked INTO the core, but when he gets out through a GuideBot named TIM, TIM also fixes the paradox point for him. The fixing is gradual though, the corrupted void is still spreading. Slowly but surely, the paradox point gets more and more healed, reaching level 1. But now Cole is on the run, and eventually he shoots Oskar dead as Oskar and the others believed he hadn’t fixed the Paradox Point since they didn’t expect the change to be so gradual. Cole was acclaimed to self defense, as POP attacked first. After the death of Oskar and the destruction of the main POP building, POP as we know it was over.

 1900 - 2041