Post by Queenie on Aug 30, 2012 20:25:50 GMT -5
History of the World Today.
[/u] (Or how this whole mess came to be)[/size][/color]
The world has undergone many drastic changes over the centuries. Warrs have been waged and borders redrawn time and time again. Countries have merged, but never completely disappeared or been forgotten.Climates have also changed over the years, making places such as Greenland more habitable, but making others such as Egypt even less.
However, there have been some even more drastic changes that have happened.
There was a war that happened many centuries ago, the causes of which have long since been removed from the history books for some reason or another, and completely forgotten with time.
That war devastated the world, and after peace had finally returned, the people joined together. It was an attempt the world of war for good. They got rid of all the major arms in the world first, steadily working their way down until things such as guns became a thing of the past. However, demilitarization did not solve the world’s quest for peace forever like the people had hoped that it would. Nearly a century of complete peace passed as the world continued to spin, going through days, months, years. Until another war broke out. This war was even more devastating than the one that had preceded it.
It wiped out more than half the world’s population before it came to a close, and left areas of the earth damaged, and full of bodies. Those who were left after it had all finally come to a close, and the battlefields were finally, thankfully, silent, came to an agreement. Technology caused nothing but trouble, and more pain, and death, and destruction. Over the next few decades technological advancement eventually came to a halt, and soon enough, started to move backwards. Within another century, technology had basically gone back to what was during the Victorian era, and with it, society essentially also reverted back to what it had been then.
Things finally seemed to be going good again. However, regressing back to almost Victorian era like times put a large strain on the world’s resources. This caused more strain on the people, unless you were nobility or royalty of course, then you had nothing to worry about.
The resource strain led to financial problems, which led to not enough money, which led to poverty, which led to famine, starvation, to death.
If you weren’t above middle class, you didn’t matter, and could die for all the nobility cared. Soon enough, the people of one of the new kingdoms that had formed, Gallia, rebelled. It was futile though, as without the people’s knowledge, the King had put together a formidable army, which easily crushed the rebellion. Gallia, ambitious and young as the new kingdom was, went on to conquer nearly half of Europe, and half of Africa as well. It became the Gallian Empire.
Six other nations followed in Gallia’s footsteps in different parts of the world, conquering the others, until they were the only ones left. These seven nations are the ones still seen today.
After the conquests, even more strain was put on the civilians to feed, house, supply, and pay the armies the Empires needed to upkeep. Poverty, death, and disease ran rampant, as the ruling class sat in their lavish manors and palaces, bellies full, safe and sound, and not a care in the world as people starved on the streets.
This is why the people began to turn to piracy. To save themselves, to get back at the ruling class, to survive. For many reasons they did. With the rise of piracy however, the nations had to build up their navies to oppose and crush them.
And it is in this time now, that we find ourselves, and the story currently taking place.[/center]