Ballerium
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Ballerium is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy (MMORTS) game in development by Majorem. Ballerium had been in beta testing when in November 2004 Majorem suspended development due to loss of funding. Interplay signed on as publisher in December and planned to launch the game in summer 2005. However, with Interplay's descent into insolvency, development has been halted again as of June 2005.
[edit] Background Story
Ballerium is a world with a single sun that frequently changes colour (phases). Seven sentient races inhabit this particular world. Each races favors one colour above all, and have certain advantages when fighting under this colour.
In the year 9900, certain anomalies appeared on the suns surface. With them appeared prophecies of the apocalypse. The Great Assembly decided to reactivate the massive dimensional gates that stood still across the land. Almost immediately, the different factions attempted to seize control of the gates. Panic spread over the world, great armies were raised, and wars raged for years. (Taken from the Ballerium manual). Eventually the wars cooled down, as the populace could no longer finance them on such a massive scale. And then, when peace seemed to be possible, when all the warlords were prepared to put down their weapons, a new threat loomed in the horizon. The gates were, accidentally or on purpose, activated before their time, and they shattered, the pieces dispersed all over the land, from these shards came Shard Rifts, and brought great danger along with them
