Editing Setting:InfiniCon (section)

=History=

"We've all got to start somewhere." - A shop owner in Infinity City

The history of Infinity City is something of a mystery. Even long time citizens aren't quite sure when the place first popped up, though most agree that it has been around over a decade and much of the city was already built even when the convention first started functioning year round.

The most common theory is that the person who built Infinity City won a major lottery or contest or something that landed him with more money than they could ever spend in 100 lifetimes. Like any of us might do, they poured that money into the things they loved, like anime and comic books and games. When that wasn't enough they began to put all that money into conventions, which proved to be enormous successes. Soon, they were buying out entire city blocks and re-purposing them as property for their convention, which continued to grow faster and faster. Before long, Infinity City was born, owned and supported by it's own, everlasting convention.

There are a lot of unanswered questions from that explanation, but seeing as the Chairman of InfiniCon, the person running the whole show, is incredibly reclusive, no one is really quite sure what the truth is. The whole thing has made the Chairman something of an urban legend with some claiming he's just wandering the streets, just another face in the crowd, while others insist that he has to be some sort of investment super genius or maybe even a collective of the most brilliant minds from each faction. Others still will warn you not to go digging into the subject too much, because they knew a guy, who heard from another guy that trying to find the Chairman got some guy killed.

Presently, InfiniCon has existed and run continuously for several years straight without any major issue. Things are more or less stable, though there were times when certain groups couldn't stand being in the same city as one another, let alone sharing convention centers, hotels, and streets. This is part of the reason that the city began splitting into the distinct districts that it is known for nowadays. A sort of mutual agreement was reached where people agreed to keep most arguments and fighting to a minimum, at least enough to let the city function. This doesn't mean that people have given up on harassing each other, but in most cases, the hardcore capefag won't bother to call out and insult the animu kid on his way to work, just as long as they don't do the same. This is still rather tenuous, as many conflicts still break out, both between districts (comics vs manga) and within them as well (Kirk vs Picard).