Modern Alchemy

The year is 2048, fusion has been proven as a scalable commercial concept and humanity now posses the power of the stars...

The ancient knowledge for turning base metals into gold transmuted itself into the needs of the time. It is now enabling the terraforming of the red desert planet into a new Eden. And it has revealed the pathways by which living systems decay, providing clear way on how to reverse it.

The transformation that began on Earth at the Age of Enlightenment has come full circle. The Industrial Revolution begat the Information Age from which the Automation Age arose, the one that enabled the tale of Modern Alchemy to come to being. 

Now that the illusion of unlimited progress at the expense of life has been spent, a new world will be forged from the fires. At this later stage, the golden band bears no weight, the rings wield no power. 

Frodo Lives. The fires of Mt. Doom will burn no more. A whole new world awaits.

This is the science behind how it all starts.