Keto of Shuiana

Keto of Shuiana is a Hopelandian Ketogene fanfic first written in September 2011 by Hopelandian writer XXR1995. What started as XXR's work has been adopted by ten individual writers who suggested a new, rewritten version of the story years later.

The basic premise involves the Farleys receiving emergency plans to move to the planet of Shuiana, a larger planet where the merpeople moved, and where a significant number of human refugees from Nara arrived ahead of; and in the wake of its explosion on December 21, 2012. Half of them came from Hopeland who financed the single-use shuttles. The Naran population was aware of the deadly fate of their former home planet when Governor Tarkin (who the author claims to be separate from the Star Wars counterpart) takes over the government of the United States of Sierra and announces long-term plans to explode Nara and its moon. Life continued but the first signs emerged when the merpeople and meranimals were teleported to Shuiana with no way back. It's up to Cody to revert the story, by finding a time-travel device to take him back to the mid-2000s and cause the destruction of Tarkin.

Premise and themes

The story was first written in September 2011 and has sci-fi influences. All of Nara's merpeople in October 2012 mysteriously teleport themselves to another planet (Shuiana) and Nara was to be destroyed on December 21, 2012. Hopeland built four of the nine shuttles that landed in Shuiana safely. Cody and his family were then sent to the planet on the eve of the destruction, as a consortium of Hopelandian scientists (including Cody's father Wayne Farley) who studied the habitable planet of Shuiana find out that the merpeople need help from Nara. In the weeks leading up to it, the civilized world begins to collapse as many people weren't able to travel on one of the nine shuttles to Shuiana. Subsequently on December 21, 2012, at 16:01:16 ITC, as predicted, the explosives detonate. Nara and the moon explode, creating two space fireballs (in an event that left scientists perplexed) that later dissipate and in its place an asteroid field (commonly nicknamed The Graveyard) is created. At the time of the explosion, Cody was sleeping with Kahoot as he was fighting a deadly menace with Captain Hopeland, the explosion prompted Cody to open his eyes in the merman chamber, thinking that he perished in the destruction, but was later warned by Wayne that they were already almost reaching Shuiana. The family had to leave before the explosion because had they left at the last minute, they would have lost their immortality powers. Cody reencounters Keto in a town designated by the survivors of the Hopelandian government as New Hopeland and the fact that it looked like Albany to him made him happy, and that the undersea kingdom of Ketogene was nearby. But many people are dissatisfied with their life. Only a few people are unaware of a time machine that han help repair the damage and restore Nara to what it was - for that, Cody has to fight the evil mastermind, Governor Tarkin (named after the Star Wars character of the same name) and turn back time and prevent him from planting the explosives.

• Wayne Farley: It's as if millions of voices all screamed out at once and were suddenly silenced.
• Donovan McCain: Do you fear that something terrible has happened?
• Wayne Farley: Yes, but at least we landed in safety. But the death toll is at the billions.

The bulk of the fanfic is set in Shuiana, a planet that received seven large vessels coming out of Hopeland, containing 92.308 human escapees (or survivors) combined and some animals. The landmass is known to house two countries, New Hopeland and New Sierra. The well-written fanfic also comes with a wiki from the author featuring the many ways society had to cope in the case of disaster (including Naran encyclopedias, content from websites, Wikipedia, video games, movies, television shows), mostly led by people who eventually moved to Shuiana, celebrities that entered the vessels and survived, and also include the political events of the pre-2012 part of canon (the human alien Tarkin, how he entered the United States and how he planted the explosives), the discovery of life in other planets in decades before the 2012 disaster, and how the supposed doomsday in real life affected the creation of his fanfic. Shuiana is a world whose population consists of merpeople and meranimals, whereas on land, population consisted largely of random animals, few humans and a number of centaurs (horse and mostly bear) and satyrs, as well as merman hybrids. Shuiana also has the same resources as Nara, but they are mostly used by humans. One of the characters is a bear centaur version of Cody Farley.

The fanfic is also peppered with numerous references to pop culture, including the buildup being reminiscent to the hype of the supposed 2012 apocalypse (that set the pace for the start of the story), as well as a limited number of Star Wars references. Some fanfics of the fanfic involving properties from other shows have also been created.

Characters

• Keto Tiroki-Farley: The titular character moved to Shuiana without being aware of the situation. Before the intercoms with Nara were switched off before the explosion, he started to become aware of the situation in Nara and was worried about Cody. He is the regent of the much larger kingdom of Ketogene, about five times the size it had in Nara, and in the initial phase, the two rekindled their bond.
• Cody Farley: Biologically eternally 13 years old, 14 on the outside at the time of the explosion. His interests are the same as the Ketogene animated series, but his primary goal is to travel back to the mid-2000s where he has to prevent Tarkin from planting the explosives. Achieving such would make his experience in Shuiana a mere dream.