Fanon:Achaia Oropia: Difference between revisions

However, the growing knowledge of Kallisto's experiments with the Swansons rallied some hopeless romantics to the cause, since they wanted the Swansons free from the chains of th Church as they saw it. This led to a sudden shift in popularity: Achaia would make great friends with many, and this was the catalyst that led to the ending of Christopher's stigma. With that, Achaia was able to raise funds and potentially use that to hamper the Church. However, Achaia had other plans: Achaia wanted to group up with Antigone and her branch at Appaloosa Plains, and so Achaia planned her move to the Appaloosa so she can express her support for Antigone's populist branch. But despite the alliance, Antigone's deviation was contained to Appaloosa Plains, and by no means did Antigone ever aggressively pushed for antagonization of Kallisto's Church, simply because Antigone grew more suspicious of the local population when news of a [[Fanon:Tessa Swanson|spy]] (which was outdated) of the Church happened to be embedded in Appaloosa Plains: Antigone was already in a inquisitorial mood, and started to inquire about the papparazzis, believing that one of them would be the spy.

While Antigone continued to prepare for a potential assassin, Antigone hoped to stay low until Kallisto's focus shifted to other matters. While Antigone was developing a labyrinth complex and some other security measures, Kallisto's focus conveniently shifted towards conquering worlds of alternate timelines. As Kallisto's focus shifted to that, less focus was given to counter Antigone and more on containing heresy. Antigone then recruited the Singleton family to serve as her counter-spy, with little success: after all, there was no spy to be caught, and Kallisto was soon found to be lacking in intelligence regarding Antigone, and no single instance of public romance was found as UAVs and papparazzis would have made such things public to the Church in matter of minutes. While Antigone contrary to her brave disposition started to turtle, Achaia wanted a more active stance: Achaia was all too eager to gaze on Christopher's eyes in the public, and that attracted Kallisto's ire, although due to Kallisto and Achaia's personal histories, Kallisto did not take Achaia as a serious threat, and maintained her policy of containment and subjugation of the alternate timeline world.

A lack of romantics in Hekatonschoinos ensured that no technological secrets ever leaked out of the main chapter. However, Achaia was solicited by Jamie (whose relationships with Christopher became amiable), who by a stroke of luck offered to give out intelligence regarding the Church gleaned from Lysistrata (although not strictly of the church, since the Lysistrata wasn't aware of the Church then.): much to Achaia's horror, one of Lysistrata's accounts revealed Kallisto's implication in the cloning technology, as well as the creation of Kallistrata herself. Achaia as a former member of the Scholars' Union was well aware that Kallisto had the technologies of time travel: after all, Kallisto, Stratonike, and Hypatia were all skilled inventors. Achaia hoped that Kallisto would not come up with the idea of flooding neighborhoods with clones, and much less flooding neighborhoods of the past and the future, but Achaia knew Kallisto would hit where it was least expected, and urged Antigone to take up inventing: Achaia knew that to survive Kallisto's oncoming onslaught the romantics will need the manpower as well as the time traveling capabilities, especially since most of the romantics were more about love than having kids (and even so, the kids might not grow up quick enough to counter Kallisto's attacks), while she herself also dug in all ready to risk shocks, fire, and death in the name of "true love."