why did i do this

Alternate Earth where basically religion won out and suppressed technological development. This is played subtly and in the background, though.

Maybe post-apocalyptic; a big focus on not being allowed to "repeat the mistakes of the past"?

Regardless, the players should be forced to practice magic/alchemy in secret if at all, maybe helping to shape the world as it recovers. (Set in far future of Fragment Project?)

Possible titles: Satellite Story

This has real potential. Set up a multi-million year master plan, maybe the ability near the end to channel the other Heroes of _____ that lets them play their old characters in "reprise" scenarios.

SkaiaConnect Corp has discovered that magic is real. The CEO wants immortality, and to get it, the only way would effectively be to... sacrifice the entire planet?

End result: Recovered SkaiaCorp technology is heralded as almost godly in the Second Age (post-apocalyptic) and in the Third Age is the basic foundation of the spacefaring civilization.

The last Third Age battle is a multi-galaxy rush back to the shattered shell of Earth (maybe end the First Age with the moon exploding so there's a nice visual of fragmented moon to call back/forward to?)

FIRST AGE (2012 A.D.)
Fragment Project. At the very end, the moon shatters, perhaps thanks to a deflected nuke?

SECOND AGE (4948 A.D.)
The backstory of SWORLD has become the mythology of the world that's risen up in the shadow of the shattered society that came before them. Thus, at the age of 18 (since that's how old you had to be to buy the game, lolz), every kid (including the party) goes out on a coming of age quest to discover their skill. They don't get classes so much as collections of skills from equipment and as needed. Is technology worth the risk of unleashing another "genie in a bottle"?

THIRD AGE (5560 A.D.)
Space cowboy stuff, Cowboy Beep Boop. It's revealed midway that the mystical power source that powers all the technology and shit was based on human souls of everyone who died during the apocalypse... and now they're running out. What's more important: life or technology?

THE BRILLIANT PLAN
The CEO discovers, hey, magic is real! He realizes then through experiments (probably on interns) that the human soul is an almost infinite power supply. Realizing that this is the only way to get through the current limitations on power, he digitizes himself and sets up a Xanatos Gambit: He's going to become worse than Hitler so that humanity can finally reach the stars. He creates SWORLD, kills everyone, and has SCC facilities around the world collect and transmute these souls, storing them in Azure Vaults designed to preserve their cargo until humanity can bounce back from this mass extinction. Should it not, he has a failsafe; he's got groups of people in Crimson Vaults all over the world, scientists trying to figure out the problems of the era. All of these have fallen prey to accidents in the intervening time (crystal explosions, huge-ass monsters killing everyone, etc., etc.), but the knowledge contained within them will still be useful... if the party can convince the people that technology is good and not of the devil, that the risk is worth what they stand to gain.