The Setting Sun

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Setting: Distant future Earth. The buildings grow vertically, spires climbing ever higher. Though many have left for other planets, many visit each year to settle down, eager for a slice of origin. The overcrowding makes policing a difficult thing, for one organization at least. The largest countries no longer exist or exist fractured by militias that claim to police their territory, favoring themselves over a central government. Corruption runs rampant when no one mentions it for fear of never speaking again. The militia governments vary from monarchies to democracies to dictatorships to strange systems that no one's found a word for yet.   You and your siblings in arms are part of the Cult of the Rising Sun, who has a fairly large territory in what was formerly Antarctica. You are the rank of Dawnblade. It is one level over the general member, sort of an elite policing force. You perform many general day-to-day tasks, but your specialty is taking down extremely dangerous individuals. Your cult follows a shadowy godlike figure, known only as the Eclipse. They follow the Sun. No one alive has seen their real face, but they are reportedly immortal.   Micua, who trained your group, has given you an urgent task. Apparently, there is a rat within the organization, who leads a rival cult which not only aims to destroy the cult that raised you, the earth that your were born in, but also the universe.   He has appointed you to find the traitor, and stop the destruction of not only your life, but everything.