The anonymous engineer's work he performed publicly and to great public accolade which quickly attracted the attention and interest of the History's Suppression Bureau which began to take an interest. Eventually, someone grew alarmed enough to order the end of the work and the Bureau moved in. But by this time, the engineer had received enough patrons and allies that he was able to elude their attentions and continue his work. But as the Bureau hounded him for, as he saw it, just his duty to improve humanity's tumultuous state, his grip on sanity slowly slipped, something not helped by the strange machine's connection with the Mansus. The Bureau poured enormous resources into hunting him, but with support, he was able to create the earliest stage of the Engine. Then, it was not even to the modern Engine what an embryo is to a human, but it was still a marvel of the era: A perpetual motion machine that seemed to be able to think and grow. The engineer's supporters, disciples, and patrons pointed to it as an example of what he had been doing and with the benefits it proved able to provide, public opinion swung heavily against the Bureau, leading to a counter-suppression. With the power of such a thing behind them, the engine's proponents gathered enough financial and military leverage to force the warring states of the History to a peace, and for the first time in millennia, the world saw peace. But this was not to last, for the engineer continued working and labouring on his creation...