| Philip Hacker wrote:
| >
| > has anybody given thought to the history of the Pokemon world? How 

did

| > the Pokemon League come about? How were pokeballs invented? and so 

on.

Hmm... beta version of my own theory on the subject.

Very nice...

Mew can likely be called the mother of all pokemon, as she or her line
(depending on how you look at it) were the alleged originators of 

everything

else. Unless my script of the Pokemon movie was totally mistranslated.

At any rate... some time back, Mew (or _a_ Mew) descended to earth, 

whether

in exile or as part of an exploratory team, we may never know. This Mew
brought with him/her/it an energy source, a means of converting natural
energy of all types into raw power. One of the tanks ruptured on 

impact,

sending this source into the environment and effectively dashing any 

hope

the Mew may have had of returning to wherever it came from.

Mew?  Perhaps, but it had to be more than one.  Remember, Mewtwo was 
cloned from a Mew found in South America.  Maybe a colony of them live 
there.  

 Some of the

native flora and fauna took in miniscule amounts of this source, all 

their

bodies could hold at the time, and changed. Drastically. The new energy
source made previously impossible feats, like motile plants or huge
bioelectric energy fields, for example, attainable. Some of the energy
leaked into the ground in trace amounts, producing the Thunder, Leaf, 

Moon,

and other types of Stones. In some places, the energy concentrated 

more,

enabling the microorganisms in the rock to join into massive colonial 

life,

producing what were essentially mobile rocks. Other portions of this 

energy

leaked into deposits of silicon or petrified wood, inhospitable to even
microbial life, but quite capable of being crafted into artificial 

life,

like the Mr. Mimes and Magnemites. The energy also infused into 

colonies of

airborne and water-borne bacteria, (Gastlys and Grimers, respectively) 

in

addition to the more standard birds, fish, land animals, and plants.
Humanity, or at least human precursors, were in large part not in the 

crash

zone; those few who were became Primeapes and Mankeys.

Nah.  Those would've been normal animals, or even a fusion of two 
species.  Humans mutated into Pokemon would be Machop, Jynx, And the 
Hitmons(Lee and Chan).  And maybe Mr. Mime.  (say that four times fast!)

Pokemon of all sorts quickly grew and spread across the lands, stymied 

only,

perhaps, by oceans. Pokemon quickly filled every niche in the local
ecosystem, forcing most of the normal fauna to leave or undergo losing
battles for food, water, and shelter. The local flora, however, 

remained

largely unchanged, because of the much more readily available energy 

source

(sunlight) and the less competitive nature of most of the plant 

Pokemon.

Definitely.  Almost all other animals, with the exeption of some 
insects, would've ben driven off by the Pokemon.  I mean, even the 
predators would've been killed by the Pokemon they tried to prey upon.

Hmmm, there's a thought.  Predators hunting Pokemon...

The Pokemon themselves changed over time. Creatures of a similar origin
which had been infused with different amounts of energy, or which 

adapted to

use their existing energy more efficiently - or which came across a 

natural

deposit of energy in the form of a Stone - would take on sometimes 

radically

different forms as a result of the increased access to energy. 

Sometimes

this change came over long periods of time; other times the change hit 

with

the onset of increased hormonal activity, happening near-instantly.

Which reminds me, after seeing the episode where Ash almost gave up 
Pikachu, I'm thinking that the Raichu is a mutation of the pikachu.

And then, humanity entered the picture, development finally reaching 

the

areas where Pokemon roamed. Several recluses and/or ancient 

civilizations

had already made contact with many types of Pokemon... industrial 

society,

however, was none too compatible with the existence of creatures 

powerful

enough to tear down a power plant or factory within minutes. It is only
recently that society has been able to adapt to the presence of Pokemon 

and

integrate them into everyday life... sometimes as pets, sometimes as
workers, sometimes as entertainers... and sometimes as fighters. 

Remember what Lt. Surge says in the game.  Pokemon were at one time, and 
probably still are, used as weapons.  Which means the if a kid like Ash 
or Gary can freely use Pokemon like Onix and Gyarados, any Pokemon 
reserved or restricted for military use must be truly frightening!

More rural

communities acquired a strange resonance with many Pokemon, developing
family-to-herd relations almost instantly.

Of course, not all Pokemon are friendly. Some did not forget their 

earlier

feral instincts and attacked human settlements. Domesticated Pokemon 

were

the only line of defense, until the Pokeball was discovered. This ball, 

an

odd mix of science and magic, has its roots in the earlier days of 

Pokemon

research where the energy created by a Pokemon was shunted into 

different

applications... two of these applications being the bending of 

spacetime to

create dimensional pockets and a strange sort of subconscious resonance 

to

create an image of "home" from a Pokemon's ancestral memory. A Pokeball 

uses

its Pokemon as a natural power plant to produce both of these effects. 

The

problem lies in getting past the initial surge of energy when the 

Pokemon

realizes it's been caught, before the illusion of home settles in.
Capacitors are built into Pokeballs to guard against this; however, the
nature of the pocket dimension makes it impossible for the capacitors 

to

exceed a certain maximum surface area. Thus, finer materials and finer
circuit boards must substitute for bulk quantities, making the sort of
Pokeball needed to contain a rare and powerful Pokemon expensive 

indeed.

Rumors abound of a prototype Pokeball, designed to use 

shifted-wavelength

Pokemon energy to neutralize and contain ANY type and strength of 

Pokemon,

but this prototype, if it exists, is not as yet available to the 

public.

Once Pokeballs became commercially available, some of the more 

adventurous

elements of society went out into the wild bearing Pokeballs and 

bringing

back strange creatures, sometimes for exhibition, sometimes to use as a
family pet. The original Pokemon league was likely an explorer's club 

of

sorts, the original Pokedex likely bound notebooks or diaries. It is 

not

know at which point children became involved in the capturing and 

training

of Pokemon; possibly sometime after the Pokedex, a derivative of the 

palmtop

computer, was invented and patented, and the wilderness explored to the
point that even "wild" Pokemon were fairly non-belligerent.

But, whenever it happened, the Pokemon League and the various Pokemon
centers and gymnasiums now form a major part of society, giving 

thousands

upon thousands of children a single Pokemon, the means to care for it, 

and

the dreams of one day being able to be the greatest in the world.

Well, that's my take on it, anyway.

--G. Falconar

VERY well done.  One of my ideas was a lot like this.  Once again, I 
commend you.

SAMAS



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