Lore

AlgoRanter is about Algorand and sustainability advocacy. Ranting against climate change and championing the ideas of using blockchain for a better world. 

Part 1 - How it all started

AlgoRanter is a story about a kid called William Rantson. Rantson is a calm, composed guy who is always radiating with positivity. He grew up in one of the most populated countries in the world. He is passionate about travelling and taking pictures of nature, animals and always advocated conservation of biodiversity.

However, when he started growing old, his life and profession got under way and he had to focus on making a living which made him to stop doing what he always loved.

One day while he was traveling to his work as usual on his gas powered bike, he realized that he was stuck in traffic for almost an hour. He looks around, all he sees is the urbanization, lost landscape, thousands of fuel combustion bikes and cars everywhere. He looks up, sighs and sees gray fog covering the sky, polluting the air, the honking sound of the vehicles causing sound pollution, people screaming at others to get moving.

Rantson was fed up with all that was happening around. He decided to take a day off and went to his favorite beach after a very long time. He sat on the shore thinking about his previous times about serene waters, took a deep breath to inhale the raw smell of the ocean. He turned towards his right to visualize it but all he saw was a garbage truck dumping the trash in the ocean. He was frustrated by the act and turned away only to see plastic bags flying around in the air, and he looked at the front expecting that scenic and beautiful image he had in mind of the ocean waves hitting the shore but instead all he saw was plastic bottles and tangled clothes floating along with waves.

He suddenly stood up, shook his head, lost his temper. He started screaming at the sky at the top of his voice. His cool, peaceful personality started to shatter. Started ranting at everyone to stop hurting the environment. He even tried to break into a car to switch off the gas. He couldn’t control his temper, he wanted to do something about it. He immediately ran home, started looking up on the internet on how to correct all of this. He then came across Algorand, a wonderful concept of blockchain and how it is trying to incentivize people economically around the globe to do good things and when he heard that just by using it, you were supporting the cause of carbon negativity. He was blown away by that idea. He saw an honest community. A community full of passion, like minds. He thought it was time he be a part of it. He created a movement on Algorand called "AlgoRanter - Ranting against Climate Change 365 days a year." Supporting Algorand 24/7. A prodigy was born that day who went on to advocate nothing but Algorand and sustainability.

Part 2 - Climate Combat

Year 2050 - It has all become human centric. The technology, land, products.. Everything.. Everything for the comfort and ease of human life. To what extent? There is no room left for biodiversity. People watch in vain as the earth falls apart. Forests catching fire, droughts everywhere, animals and fishes disappearing from forest and the ocean, many major cities of the world are now underwater. The evil mastermind behind all of this is Carbonoid, a carbon respiring, self mutated human who wants to change the compositions of earth on a molecular level. He is supported by King Xoal, an advocate of fossil fuels with a vision of carbonizing and changing the climate model of earth altogether.


Ranter’s initial movement to bring the community together had failed. He had understood that all his rants did not make a difference. Not knowing what to do, he heads to the only regenerative place left on earth, Mount Algondia, seeking help. He looked at the people, the land, the technology and all of the workings. He was thrilled to see that they had designed a 100% circular economic life. A life with net zero carbon emissions, net zero energy, the materials and resources kept in the loop through continuous reuse, remanufacture, and recycle. He was stunned at the design and magnificence of the place.


Ranter roamed around the entire mountain for weeks looking for the person responsible for the wonder, that is Algondia. He finally found a dome at the zenith, inside which was a wise man meditating, his face illuminated with bliss and enlightenment. It was none other than Micasil, the mastermind behind the design of pure proof of the state of Mt. Algondia. Ranter went and sat in front of Micasil asking to help him win the climate battle against Xoal and his evil council. Micasil slowly walked near a holographic globe which projected the data of everybody and everything on earth. Micasil looking at it, said, "You see all this data? All of this is stored in just one strand of DNA. That is the level of advancement we've made in science. At the same time, Xoal has used the same science as a destructive weapon. Nobody bothered to stop him and now he's unstoppable. The current data points show that we've got only 2 years before Xoal sends his reinforcement to mutate the Algondians and turn them into Carbonoids. But I watched your initial movement to stop climate change. You're a good lad. I want to help you. There's actually one thing you can try to do now to save earth. Although it is almost impossible, there is a chance." He turns to a small device to his left and says, "Use this quantum tunnel graph to send messages to everybody in our solar system but beware there are a lot of negative actors across the system trying to conquer earth at the same time. You also need to understand that even IF the good actors receive the message AND decide to join this movement, it takes them 2 years to travel through the wormhole from any planet to reach earth. You need to compute the frequency of the location of good actors and send an encrypted ping in their dialect." 


All Ranter heard was that there is a chance to save this earth and he needs to send some message. He jumped with excitement, immediately thanking Micasil, took the quantum tunnel graph from him and rushed home to start studying locations and frequency. After 3 months, he starts sending the pings with much passion. Without receiving anything back for almost 3 months, he had started to lose his hope. Not knowing what to do, he was returning back to Micasil to hand over the device. On his way, he received a strange ping which was encrypted and was in a strange dialect. He was pumped up to see it finally. He immediately went to Micasil and asked for his help to crack this. Micasil, the father of cryptography and expert in many alien languages, took 2.5 seconds to crack the code. Ranter was able to see that everything was falling into place and his adrenaline was at the top.


The message read - "We're coming."


What Ranter did not know was the message was infiltrated by few malefactors in the solar system and were interested to join hands with Xoal and help him achieve his vision of a polluted, suffocated earth.


The battle between climate and anti-climate warriors is inevitable! 

Part 3 - Ranters are 'burning'

King Xoal with his mighty carbon army is killing people who are involved in the Ranter’s movement to stop climate change. The population of climate activists is slowly reducing. The initial 7777 people in the movement are now at 3290 at the time of writing!! Xoal and Carbonoid are either killing or mutating people to join his side.


These mutated humans are given the name Mutaeins by Xoal. Their chunks of flesh are filled with methane gas and they are highly intelligent because of the restructuring of their brain with the enhanced glutamate-carbon bond.

Ranter who is now stationed in Algondia is calling everyone from the community to help him and join this war. Although the members and punks of Algondia have joined hands, it is not enough as the mutations from Xoal are happening at an exponential rate and mass extinctions are happening. With Micasil’s advice, Ranter is able to carefully send signals to oxynites using the quantum-tunnel graph to help him save earth from the evil clutches of Xoal.


So far 4 extraterrestrial beings have responded to Ranter’s message and are preparing to use the wormhole to enter the earth’s atmosphere. 


The following army is approaching to support Ranter -