Coheed And Cambria Story
Posted on: October 23, 2008, at 07:39:05pm


In the Beginning

In the beginning, God created three species: Man, Mage, and Prise. They were placed in the universe known as Heaven’s Fence and allowed to live. The “Fence” was comprised of 78 planets aligned in a triangular form divided into 12 sectors. Each sector was given a capital planet with five additional planets (with the exception of sectors 7 and 12, which had eight follower planets). In order for the Fence to exist, a precise method of energy distribution was required to supply each planet with an equal amount of essential elements needed to sustain life. The Keywork itself is comprised the visible beams of light that connect every individual planet, supplied by the seven power star transformers, known as the Stars of Sirius. Sirius Amory, the namesake and chief astronomer of the Stars, discovered that the Stars could produce the essential elements needed to harbor life among the planets and ensure their immobility (provided it allowed them to orbit around the beam).

When God placed all three species in Heaven’s Fence and allowed them to live, he left them with specific rules. Prise would watch over the Mages, and Mages would govern over Man. This way, all could leave peacefully and harmoniously for all time. Should the balance be interrupted, it was the Prise’s responsibility to restore order. He left a riddle to be followed by the Prise:

“If man should decide to dabble in my affairs, then guardian must intervene. But, should I come forth to change the face of Man with you there to challenge me, then I shall return with the Stars to destroy all I have made. Whether Man or I present that danger will not be told in the coming.”

Over time, Mages became greedy and restless. Wilhelm Ryan, one of the twelve Mages sent to govern with compassion and justness, decided to overthrow his fellow Mages and take over their sectors. He ordered Mayo Detinwolf, future Head General of the URA, to occupy the neighboring territory and overthrow the leader, Mage Covent Marth. Immediately Marth and fellow Mages demanded Ryan withdraw his forces, but Ryan then executed Marth and thus began the War of the Mages. At war’s end, Ryan was in control of all three sectors and was hence forth known as Supreme Tri-Mage Ryan. Ryan enslaved Man to do his bidding, creating the United Red Army which he used to inflict a tyrannical rule over the entire Keywork. He used Man not only for labor in life, but as fuel for the Keywork in death by trapping their souls in the Stars. In creating the URA, Ryan appointed his cyborg body guard Mayo Detinwolf as Head General, and captures the 8 remaining Mages and turned them into Onstantine Priests. Described as mindless and blood thirsty, the Priests are Ryan’s merciless executioners.

After years under Ryan’s ruthless iron fist, one of Man’s greatest scientists, Dr. Leonard Hohenberger, devised a plan. With the blessings of neither Mage nor Prise, Dr. Hohenberger worked in secret to create the first IRO-bots. Officially known as Interceptive Recon Operative Bots, they are cyborg like beings that act, feel, and think as humans, but posess super-human abilities. He created a team known as the K.B.I., comprised of Cambria (Knowledge), Coheed (Beast), and Jesse (Inferno). Each with their own talents, they were implanted with the mission of removing Ryan from power. Before he could exact his plan on Supreme Tri-Mage Ryan Wilhelm, Dr. Hohenberger was framed by accusations of ties with a terrorist organization, “Aetna Six,” the doctor was assassinated. Before his death, he implanted new memories into Coheed and Cambria and sent them into hiding. The doctor left Jesse untouched and told him to disappear, presumably in hopes to one day complete their task.

Years passed, and hopes for an answer to Ryan’s regime began to fade. The Prise stirred with unrest, as they began to feel they had failed God and that the riddle they were left with would soon be realized. However, within Sector 12, on the capital planet Paris: Earth, a secret to Man’s oppressors began to rise. Mariah Antillarea, a Mage believed to be born through Immaculate Conception, is believed by her followers to be the solution to Ryan’s evil tyranny. Followers who refer to her as “The Messiah”, mark between their thumb and index finger, on the web of their hands, with an “M” with two lines drawn diagonally across it, to show they were members of Mariah’s Rebellion. A breath of hope spreads through the race of Man, and soon Mariah has a Rebel Army to fight against the URA. Thus marks the beginning of a whole new war.