I was born to help Charles out with his plans. I knew what they were before I chose that path. I understood the basics of the world he wanted to build. I never would have chosen one of his family members, you know. But in Charles I found someone who wanted to change that. Change everything. Wolfenheim was not his first plan, though it was the first his enemies noticed. The first crack. The rest…well…no matter how long I live, I will never be bored.
World War I was not truly a case of good versus evil of course. It was competing alliances thinking they could force the other to give way, and then finding out in the end that neither was willing to back down. And the engines of rising industry threw new and terrible weapons into the fires of War. It was the most destructive War that mankind had ever waged on itself. It was The War. The Great War. The War to End All Wars. So said hopeless optimism.
By the time the Peloran showed up, organ banks were the way to live. Even the middle class could by them. And government banks granted access to those that couldn’t afford them in the politicians’ undying effort to buy more votes in the next election. And since they reserved the best of the organ banks for themselves, I really do mean undying. People don’t call them bloodsucking vampires for nothing after all. The politicians that is.
The first true Internet linked the world in a web of power and communication in the Twenty-First Century. Civilizations long separated by months of travel time sending letters back and forth could see each other in full video in real time. Movements seeking liberty from oppressive governments fed off each other, and got their message out to the world. The Arab Spring was but one example. Religious hardliners made it an Arab Winter, but Spring returned in time.
The United States of America joined the Great War with patriotic zeal. The news media and government reports united in claiming it was every red-blooded American’s duty to kill the Huns who sank Lusitania. It became a fight of good versus evil, and America was on the side of the angels, as always. Every German atrocity was shouted across the airwaves, reinforcing the rightness of our cause in standing against them. It was a masterful job of public propaganda.
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