The Shang underestimated us. They thought we would roll over and surrender when they devastated our industrial base and killed our political leaders. They failed to realize that we would not mourn the politicians. And Yosemite Station just pissed us off. Without the old politicians to hem and haw over appropriate responses, we came out the gates and just started killing every Shang we could find. Make no mistake, they were hard to kill. But we were motivated.
When Russia fell out of The War to revolution, many thought the Allied war effort would suffer. In many ways it did, as the Germans were able to throw the eastern armies onto the Western Front. But American reinforcements stopped their advance, while the British blockade starved the nation until it could no longer afford to fight. In the end, Germany and her allies surrendered to the Allies, hoping to get some relief from the long devastation.
There’s something about the Peloran treatments that most people didn’t think about back in the day. They didn’t just help us fight off infections and diseases. They actually taught our immune systems how to fight everything from the common cold to cancer. In some ways they were like a giant vaccine against every disease the Peloran had ever faced. More than that though, they changed us on a genetic level. Some of those changes we pass on to our kids now.
Data Pirates stole countless identities, billions of dollars in old money, and compromised the security networks of entire nations in the early Twenty-First Century. Governments unleashed many of them to wage a digital war on other nations, and even allies began to fight each other on the various nets. Economies based on digital holdings were at the mercy of Data Pirates who created or destroyed fortunes with the stroke of a keyboard. It was a time of chaos.
Millions died on the Eastern Front of World War I, and the vast Russian army shattered under the German juggernaut. The economy collapsed under the loss of so many young people, and bloody protests forced the Czar to abdicate. The Russian Social Democratic Party soon took power, initiating the long Russian Civil War that would end the Empire entirely. It was merely one of many empires that would die in the crucible of The Great War and the aftermath.
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