The next day, Istar contacted Ibuki and told him of a massacre of a village on the United Sanctuary's border. This culminated in an incident where, as the Kagero army marched upon the borders of the United Sanctuary, Ibuki attempted to stop a tournament match between a Kagero player and a Gold Paladin player. He then resorted to unethical means such as threats and bribery, anything to stop players from playing Vanguard, and the methods Ibuki used caused Istar to fear for Ibuki's mental health. Ibuki, with Istar's guidance, tried every legal means he had available to end Vanguard-promoting other card games, persuading fighters and card shops to drop Vanguard, talking to top-ranked fighters about the Earth-Cray isomorphism, and so on-but they failed. Thus Istar decided that the game of Cardfight!! Vanguard had to be shut down, and Ibuki, already previously disaffected by Vanguard due to unpleasant childhood experiences regarding the game, agreed. They believed that the isomorphism had to be destroyed out of principle-even if the Earth-Cray isomorphism could help the inhabitants of Cray, they would still be unable to control their own fates.
Istar, a big believer in people's self-determination, was shocked, and believed something had to be done. Istar discovered that things such as massacres, dictatorships, and wars on Cray could be linked to cardfights on Earth. Wins by a fighter generally corresponded to a military victory for their avatar on Cray, and losses generally corresponded to a military defeat. Soon, by consulting Cray's histories, Istar and Ibuki connected the dots. Istar discovered a way to contact their corresponding fighter, the alternate Kouji Ibuki, and asked Ibuki to research powerful fighters and their win-loss records. Fifteen years before the flood, and a year before the corresponding events on Earth, the Deletor scientists discovered the Cray-Earth isomorphism, the phenomenon that causes cardfights on Earth to influence events on Cray.
The Deletors largely lived in peace with the rest of Interstellaris, despite their fearsome visages and ability to delete others.Ī faction of deletors, led by Leader Deletor, Istar, had arrived on Cray and had lived there for some time, working as scientists on the continent of Star Gate. The deletors, with Interstellaris's help, built a civilization on Brandt, and the world was inhabited by all manner of beings from Brandt and beyond. It was forced to submit to the Interstellaris Federation and learned to control its hunger, and the deletors evolved from mindless devourers to an actual race of sapient beings. This story is outdated and needs an overhaul.Įons ago, the alternate timeline's Brandt was the target of a small operation carried out by an Interstellaris army.