President Wilson proposed that the Allies create a League of Nations to forever stop another War from happening. The other Allies were unimpressed by the idea, far more concerned with making certain their enemies would never again be a threat. They called for ruinous reparations payments from the defeated foes, and Wilson agreed to allow them as long as the Allies joined his League. And thus the League of Nations was born from the ashes of War and total victory.
The crazy thing about the Peloran Treatments is that we’re taking less of them now than we did right after Contact. Like I said before, some of them come to our kids now. They’ve changed our genetics, cleaning up a bunch of junk in our code. We rarely get sick, and our bodies just don’t wear out as much. Even the organ banks have noticed that trend and they ain’t happy about the drop in business. We’re becoming something new.
When the Second Great Depression engulfed the world, chaos reigned throughout the electronic networks. Most collapsed to electronic or economic attacks, and only the most secure networks remained active. With universal net access a thing of the past, the world became a larger and stranger place again. Rebuilt networks would arise with no links to the outside, nations unwilling to risk further attacks. A single network never again linked every nation on Earth.
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.
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