Kara: Magic Plus Infinity, an info dump

Kara, also known as the fourth universe, enhances psychic powers to the point that they call it magic. Human’s and other races there also call imbuing things with psychic energy, enchanting, and doing things with that psychic energy to affect reality, spell casting. Every child begins learning both spell casting and enchanting as soon as they can talk, and mankind has been making gene modifications for generations that has massively improved that ability. They have even built machines that can enchant and spell cast and magic is now an integral part of their society.

The universe of Kara has only one planet of an infinite radius, and gates always open on its surface. And because of how gates work, there is always an infinite distance separating any two gates open there. That means you cannot close them and return to that same place. It also means to get from one major Kara colony to another; you are required to leave the Kara Universe entirely and come back to it in a similar fashion that FTL takes place in the normal universes to get from planet to planet.

At the time of the story Renegade, the areas of Kara that humans have colonized now possess a greater population than all the human colonized planets in the other three universes combined. Those planets number into the hundreds of millions of colonized planets, and millions move from them to Kara every year. A combination of technology and magic has let mankind spread out fast there and have a higher standard of living than is possible with technology alone. Five hundred million plus continents have at least a few people on them and nearly a million of them have huge mega cities. The mix of magic and technology has resulted in mega cities with building kilometers high. Some of the biggest Kara cities have populations into the billions, which is ten times the densest, most populated city on a planet.

Magic using AIs handles the logistics, law enforcement, and nearly all basic manufacturing. The AIs even have a hand at deciding who gets what education. It might take months, but the AI run trams allow that you can buy a tram ticket and get to most any of those mega cities, that are not on the restricted list.

Humans were not the first to discover Kara. Though infinite, there are nonhumans living there. Occasionally, humans open a gate to where nonhumans live. Travel to those requires a permit and nonhumans are not permitted in the human areas. No human civilian goes to a nonhuman area until after the Dragon legion have been there and made it safe.

Everyone studies magic in school just as they do reading, math, and other things from the earliest grades on. In every city, the AIs test children biyearly. If at 12 years of age they are in the top half of a percent, you get an invitation to study advanced magic at a university prep school. But with a population that big, that is over a billion kids a year. It takes seven continents just to hold all the prep schools for the study of advance magic. Only one percent of those that study in one of those prep schools pass the final test and get into The University. But that still ten million students entering it every year. The University is an entire continent dedicated to teaching the most advanced magic man has ever come up with, and half wash out each of the four years.

There are three different magic programs at The University. Ninety-five percent are in the Mage program. Four-point-nine percent are in the Magi program, a far more difficult one. But point one percent of that already elite group of elites are in the Magus program. Roger Timothy Kilgar was not only part of that group, but the top student of that very elite group. He lived and breathed and thought magic.

Then his arrogance and temper got the best of him, and he broke not one rule but many, including one that would get him banished from magic for all time. His only chance was to get beyond the reach of the AIs before they were after him. That means getting out of the zones of technologies all together. That is an almost impossible task.

Almost.

You may also read about mankind finding Kara for free on my Substack serial Kara Discovered