Editing Hollow Earth Expedition (section)

==The Backstory==
The background for HEX is that the Atlantean Civilization once ruled the Sol System and likely some places beyond it, too (yes, Atlantean like the lost city of [[Atlantis]]). They discovered the Hollow Earth and built a great empire, produced insane technology out of mythical orichalcum, the usual. They also defeated and banished some [[Lovecraft]]ian style [[Old Ones]] at some point. Eventually, the Atlanteans got bored up on their pedestal. Two of the three Atlantean Castes, the Warriors and the Priests, started bitching at each other about who was actually the best and deserved to lead. The third Caste, the Builders, realized this shit was going to go south real quick and came up with a compromise; the Priests could have Venus all to themselves, the Warriors could have Mars, and the Builders would get Earth. All sides liked this idea.

The Builders then [[Just_As_Planned|pulled a sneaky]] on their erstwhile comrades. After the vast majority of the Warriors and the Priests had passed through the teleportation gates to their respective new worlds, the Builders closed the gates and broke them, trapping the Warriors and the Priests and saving the Earth from the inevitable conflict between the two. The Builders noped off into the Hollow Earth to chill for a while and enjoy so goddamn peace and quiet for once.

Eventually, the Builders disappeared from Earth for reasons unknown, though not before interbreeding with humans, resulting in some Atlantean-Blooded people still showing up in 1936. It's open to speculation whether humans are descendants of Atlanteans, creations of them, or an independent species altogether. Now there's a shitload of secret societies on Earth that want to use or hide the Hollow Earth for their own ends. The surface world is the same in this version of 1936 as the real world was, more or less. It's what lies below that's truly extreme.