Dragon Ball - Infraverse: STARDUST

(NOTE: While a majority of the work on this verse is mine, a handful of important characters and names are not my own. Credits to the following individuals: GruntsKOMe, Dee, Justice, Dusty, Garbgeras, and Exo)

Summary
Dragon Ball - Infraverse: STARDUST, sometimes just called 'Infraverse', 'Stardust' or 'Infra' (although you can call it 'DBI' or 'DBISD' as well) is a Dragon Ball RP turned fanfiction that strives for originality in a community that is filled to the brim with similar story elements and forms that blend into each other.

Infraverse, as a series is split into two parts; STARDUST and Singularity. They are very, very different. STARDUST is the version of Infraverse belonging to me, the writer of this article, while Singularity is GruntsKOMe's version of the story. While STARDUST is a drastic reimagining of the original RP version, attempting to expand upon it, Singularity attempts to fix and clean up the original version instead, making for a simpler story. This page covers STARDUST. I may make a page for Singularity some other time but that is not now. (NOTE: This decision was made AFTER a majority of this article was written. Some stuff may contradict this, please point it out if so)

Stardust's world is very different from Dragon Ball's. For one, instead of each race being on their own separate planets, they are all on Earth. The fundamentals of each race are also changed. Saiyans and Frost Demons are more docile, and while there are feisty ones, they are definitely more comparable to humans.

Stardust is split into several different sagas or parts, where each one tells a different part of the story. There are currently 13 different parts, although two of them (Z-SWAP and I-SWAP) are simply done for fun, and are NOT canon to the overall story. Each part on its own is fairly simple, but when the timeline is put together it is a fairly... lengthy timeline. I will be covering the timeline in chronological order and not the order I wrote everything, so not all of the details and wording will make immediate sense, please tell me if someone needs changing in this area.

- Main Timeline
These are the parts most integral to the story, while not all of them are regularly brought up, they are still massively important.

(NOTE: These entries for the timeline are TEMPORARY. They are abridged to save on my own time, over time I will be updating it to have a more detailed summary of events. Until then, the character profiles will have more detailed summaries of events.


 * -|Paper Cut=Paper Cut, is 'Part 1'. It explores much of the cosmology and answers the question of what the true nature of this universe is. It starts in an ordinary orphanage. Not in the Dragon Ball world, an ordinary orphanage. The date is September 12th, 1987 when three friends, a young bubbly girl named Tamami Higashi, a slightly older and gentle young boy named Yuuka Sinchiro, and an older, reserved and quiet boy with white hair, Tsubasa Takeshi Souta. These three are great friends and are about to gather around to do one of their favorite activities, reading. New manga had recently come in, and one particularly caught their eyes, "Dragon Ball". They gathered around with each other to start reading, but as Tsubasa turned the first page, he got a serious paper cut on his thumb, and just like that, the world around the three of them started to shift, but only affecting *them*, none of the other kids seemed to notice. And in a matter of seconds, their lives were changed.


 * -|The Forgotten One=The Forgotten One is 'Part 2', and picks up an indeterminate amount of time after Paper Cut. An older Tamami wakes up in an unknown place, a decrepit, destroyed, and unknown place. Although it is Tamami, she is not aware of that, she has zero memories of her past life, so she simply goes by 'T'. The entire world is as broken and decrepit as the place as first woke up in. Weeks upon weeks of wondering, fighting the odd bandit group every now and then. The world is fundamentally empty. There is nothing left. That is until she meets a young boy in a cloak, curled up against a wall. He introduced himself as 'Shinkei'. The meaning seemingly was lost on T. He had one, powerful request, "kill me". T didn't understand why he wanted to die. But she couldn't exactly blame him, with the world in its current state. She was about to oblige the boy when a white sword pierced her stomach. Her vision then went black.


 * -|Vault of Lies=Vault of Lies or 'VoL' is 'Part 3' on modern revisions of the timeline, and the start of the main, or most important part of the timeline. It is set in the 'Kingdom Era' (as it was dubbed) and follows a Princess known as Caire, Caire Minamoto. Her and three others, her two bodyguards, Okeno Hotaka and a mysterious white-haired man known as Tanken who seems to have his own goals, and then a young street thug named Natin Okazaka. These four make up the 'Team Crystal' which face many threats in the kingdom, including a revolt of the outcasts of society (Frost Demons, Primal Saiyans, etc.), and fighting a mysterious and ill-intended Shinjin known as Doriku who has a powerful regeneration ability. It ends with Tanken having a final fight with Doriku, and 'killing' him, but even the others have their suspicions something else is at play.


 * -|A Defiant War=A Defiant War or 'ADW' is 'Part 4'. Set 50 years in the future, it follows two lovers named Horesuke Amaray and Gaimiko Daitamo as they lead a small group of rebels, titled 'Team Defy' to fight against a larger power simply known 'The Order', lead by Tanken, who wants to find... something, on Earth, so badly that he is willing to launch an all-out attack on the entire Planet with his large army just to get what he wants. While it would be a stretch to call what Team Defy did a 'victory', they were successful in pushing back the army enough to postpone Tanken's plans. There was a great loss on all sides, but there was an impending threat of The Order as Tanken swore he would return.


 * -|Future Canvas=Future Canvas, or 'Part 5' is set 10 years after ADW, and picks up with a cast of the characters that the story will follow for the rest of the main mainline timeline. It follows the forgotten heir to the throne, Kazi Minamoto, and a young village boy named Nasir Okazaka as they form an unlikely, but significant group of allies known as 'Team Diamond' as they fight many battles. Not much happens to push the overarching story along beside some mentions of The Order near the end, along with some foreshadowing. This part mostly sets up characters, relationships, rivalries, and their abilities.


 * -|Infinty's Reign= Infinity's Reign, aka 'Part 6' picks up 2 years after Future Canvas, and follow's Team Diamond's fight with The Order, now named 'The Order of Infinity'. Since the last battle with them 12 years prior, they've gotten significantly stronger. Though so has Earth's defenses. Team Diamond goes through the entirety of his army and gets to the leader, Tanken. And it pushes each member to their limits. People switch sides, lives are lost, but in the end Team Diamond proves victorious, killing Tanken and putting a stop his army.


 * -|Cursed Lands End=Cursed Lands End is the current finale of the story, and is what everything has culminated to. It is set 3 years after Infinity's Reign. 4th Shinkei, despite putting up a long and good internal fight, succumbs to his demons and embraces his role as Shinkei. He bridges to a new timeline, our main timeline, as trying to extract his plan in the isolated timeline would not work. Team Diamond is instantly on the scene, but it's apparent that they are no match for Shinkei. They retreat temporarily, allowing for Shinkei to start his plan. He starts merging timelines together, is met by Shin-Tanken, the fifth Shinkei from Dead End, along with several 'copies' of the members of Team Diamond, it's unknown fully where these came from but they are using the original bodies so it could be considered a form of brainwashing. But this comes at a minor disadvantage, dead allies, from Team Crystal, Defy, Diamond and some others like the JET Warriors are able to come back from the dead.

Team Diamond decide to use Omoni Tsukaite, Tanken's Sword which they sealed him in, to awaken him once more. Kinpu volunteers, and when she starts unsealing Tanken, his memories flood into her, she feels bad for him, but decides now isn't a time to sulk. When he is out, Tanken is... visibly distressed to hear about to situation, but they form an unlikely truce for the meantime. With Tanken's help, they do significantly better against Shinkei, but his time-manipulating ability puts them at a large disadvantage. Tanken uses his Genjutsu No Suisei to shut down this ability, but he has to concentrate while doing so, meaning he can't fight while doing so. With this, Kazi and Nasir fuse into Kazir, and are able to put a beatdown on Shinkei, eventually killing him.

Alternative Timelines

 * -|Dead End=Dead End also doesn't fit into the main timeline, and is another alternate timeline. It details what would have happened had Tamami had not been stopped and 4th Shinkei was killed in The Forgotten One. The Curse of Shinkei is everlasting, killing Shinkei will just spark it to find a new host, and it does, in Tanken. Up until Infinity's Reign, the story is the same. But when the time comes for Team Diamond to fight him, he arrives solo, no help, alone. He near effortlessly kills every member of Team Diamond including Hiretsuna. He leaves their bodies on the grounds, but it's evident something else is at play.


 * -|JET Warriors=JET Warriors doesn't fit into the main timeline, it is an alternative timeline that takes place after the end of Infinity's Reign, 20 years after specifically. It tells the story of what would have happened should Tanken would have won. The world is destroyed, although it is a wasteland, it isn't nearly as bad as The Forgotten One. There are still many cities, towns, and bastions of life around the world. The story follows Rikako, Kazi's daughter, Nanara, Nasir's daughter, and Murasakino, the daughter of Hiretsuna. They are all apart of the J.E.T., the Junkie Execution Team, and their fight to eliminate the faction of raiders and bandits that cause trouble around the country, codenamed 'Junkies'. Though, they also fight... other threats, like the returning Majin Yuu and a Frost Demon named Purina.

- Misc. Parts
While these parts may still be canon, they have little or zero bearings on the main timeline and are never brought up in the main parts and thus are not needed to understand the timeline.


 * -|BEFORE= - DETAILS ARE STILL BEING WORKED OUT -


 * -|-VS-= - DETAILS ARE STILL BEING WORKED OUT -


 * -|Z-SWAP= Z-SWAP is a fairly simple concept. What if the Heroes of STARDUST were replaced with the Z-Fighters? They are organically in the world, meaning they have Hoshi-Dai and play by the verses new rules. Characters are changed, albeit slightly. This is to fit Infraverse's more... standard society, rather than Dragon Ball's pretty wacky world.


 * -|I-SWAP= - DETAILS ARE STILL BEING WORKED OUT -

Power of the Verse
Stardust is pretty powerful. While the main timeline has a gradual growth from Wall level to Multiverse level+, the other stories vary wildly from Star level in -VS- to Galaxy level in JET Warriors and Multiverse level+ in Dead End.

Speed-wise, Stardust is fairly similar to Dragon Ball. Starting off at Athletic Human level (in BEFORE), then goes into Hypersonic and Massively Hypersonic levels. A Defiant War the characters have reached the Speed of Light and beyond, then in Future Canvas, Infinity's Reign and Cursed Lands End it starts at Massively Hypersonic+ then goes FTL+ levels, then stays at Massively FTL+ for the rest of the series.

In terms of Hax, near the start Stardust in near haxless, but with the introduction of Hoshi-Dai, while unimpressive compared to somethings on this wiki, it is very potent when compared to its sister series Singularity or Dragon Ball itself. Most notably Jinkan Bunki Kouka (Jinkan) lets characters in Cursed Lands End reach fairly high into Multiverse level+ with its high-level Time Manipulation. Some other hax include Genjutsu No Suisei (Gin) which stands average level Reality Warping, Mugen No Kurokoge (Kuro) which is Spatial Manipulation, Kazi's Jiko Kasoku which lets him accelerate his own flow of time and Degen Rokku Kaijo doubles the user's power level no matter what it is (admittedly this become null with the higher tiers).

Explanations
Terminology= - Primal Saiyan: A Saiyan still with their tail. While Saiyans with tails were simply shunned in Vault of Lies, they were totally illegal in A Defiant War and beyond.

- Frost Demon: The name used for the 'Frieza Race'. They are considered Outcasts living in the mountains away from society. They mostly keep to themselves and aren't brought up much by modern society.

- Shinkei: Shinkei is the name used for a curse placed upon the world. It is stated that 'there will always be a Shinkei'. Shinkei's goal is to cleanse the multiverse in whatever way necessary, this method is dependant upon the Shinkei in question (Ex: The Fourth Shinkei, due to being locked in the isolated timeline, wanted to merge all timelines so that no one had to suffer that same fate.)

- Hoshi-Dai: The name that was given to unique abilities personal to a specific user. The abilities develop slowly over time, and can either be an ability, or they can manifest as a weapon. There is also an Ato Hoshi-Dai, which is a Hoshi-Dai that was developed in the afterlife. They are usually much weaker than regular Hoshi-Dai.

- Hoshi-Bugendai: An enhanced of Hoshi-Dai, these are incredibly powerful but are extremely rare. (Ex. Gin, Kuro, and Jinkan.) - "So what is the universe, really? Why did it manifest as Dragon Ball world?"
 * -|Lore Clarifications=

The truth is the 'Infraverse' always existed. Locked away, dormant. It couldn't awaken since it didn't have a form to take. When Tsubasa, Tamami and Yuuka were reading that Dragon Ball manga, and then Tsubasa got that paper cut, it passively awakened his Genjutsu No Suisei which unlocked the Infraverse, overwriting the old multiverse and making way for the new one. It took the form of Dragon Ball because that was the most recent thing on the user of Gin's mind.

- "Who killed Tamami? And why did they kill Tamami?"

Tsubasa killed Tamami. He had been tailing her for a while, seeing if she would retain her memories. But when she was going to kill Shinkei, he knew that it would have been futile, the curse would live on. While right now 4th Shinkei is still a threat, he's ultimately not hurting anyone right now, giving him time to prepare. She was a victim of circumstance. This can be seen as a turning point for Tsubasa, the moment he went from Tsubasa to Tanken.

- "What was Tanken looking for? Why did he attack Earth twice?"

Tanken was looking for a key, a way back to the old world. After the loss of Tamami he was devastated, he was so desperate to return that he was willing to sacrifice the billions upon billions of lives just to get back. But in reality, that world is gone. It's lost, there is no way back.

- "What happened to Yuuka?"

Yuuka is lost. He isn't dead, he is just lost. Not even he knows where he is at the moment. He may return some time, or he may stay in the void forever. Only time will tell.

- "Shouldn't have 4th Shinkei have known he would have caused more harm if he were to die?"

He was not aware of the curse at the time he met Tamami. All he knew is that he ruined this timeline and that the amount of power he holds is dangerous.

Supporters/Opponents/Neutral
|-|Supporters= TheVoidWalker69/Amaranth
 * -|Neutral=
 * -|Opponents=

Heroes
|-|Team Diamond= Kazi Minamoto

Nasir Okazaka

Kinpu Akamine

Abos

Horegaimo Amaimo

Callock Takayama

Hagana Gobashigawa

Dai-Kiao Sakaguchi

Ray Teramoto

Horesuke Amaray
 * -|Team Defy=

Gaimiko Daitamo

Hiretsuna Senosera

Clementine-Kiao Sakaguchi

Renji Okumora
 * -|Team Crystal=

Caire Minamoto

Okeno Hotaka

Tanken

Natin Okazaka
 * -|The Manga Crew=

Tamami Higashi

Yuuka Shinchiro

Tsubasa Takeshi 'Tanken' Souta

Alternate Timeline Rikako Minamoto
 * -|J.E.T. Warriors=

Alternate Timeline Nanako Okazaka

Alternate Timeline Murasakino Senosera

Aneko Akamine
 * -|The Shadow Eagles=

Akira Higashi

Kotomine Sinchiro
 * -|Alternative Z-Fighters=

Son Goku

Vegeta

Piccolo

Krillin

Tenshinhan

Yamcha
 * -|Alternative Team Diamond=

Kazi Minamoto (I-SWAP)

Nasir Okazaka (I-SWAP)

Kinpu Akamine (I-SWAP)

Abos (I-SWAP)

Horegaimo Amaimo (I-SWAP)

Callock Takayama (I-SWAP)

Hagana Gobashigawa (I-SWAP)

Dai-Kiao Sakaguchi (I-SWAP)

Ray Teramoto (I-SWAP)

Villains
|-|The Order of Infinity= Tanken

Hiretsuna Senosera

Hokumai Ejiro

Zitri Makoto

Lanzi Iori

Asuna Kanna
 * -|Shinkei's Army=

The Fourth Shinkei

Shin-Tanken

Shin-Kazi

Shin-Nasir

Shin-Horesuke

Shin-Gaimiko

Shin-Hiretsuna

Shin-Hagane
 * -|Midori's Army=

Midori Ryo

Banri Atmou

Caeli
 * -|Junkies=

Kazumi Natsuo

Haruko Asuka
 * -|Faction Unaffiliated Villains=

Doriku

Majin Yuu

Purina

Misc. Factions
|-|Dream Kazi's Team=

Dream Kazi

Dream Hagane

Dream Dai-Kaio

Dream Ray

Dream Hiretsuna
 * -|Dream Nasir's Team=

Dream Nasir

Dream Kinpu

Dream Callock

Dream Abos

Dream Horegaimo