The Ottoman Empire had seen centuries of decline since the height of Constantinople’s prime as a seat of the Roman Empire. Numerous attempted revolutions and cessations mixed in with wars against Russia, Italy, and the Balkans to bankrupt the powerful nation before The War. Alliance with Germany was their last hope. If they won The War, they could retake the lands stolen from them by opportunists. If they lost, they would be forgotten to history. They lost.
When I was a kid, I had a narrower definition of people. Ships were machines, yah know. Then I grew up and learned what being people really meant. Some are alive, but aren’t really what I’d like to call people. And some that aren’t alive like the rest of us are more people than anyone ever expected. Cybers are like that. They’re people, and I’ve found they’re just alive as anyone else. Just different. Sometimes we need that.
When The War ended, we came home to the Peace we purchased with our lives. In many places, people happy to have their sons and daughters back welcomed us with open arms. In other areas, jeers, flying eggs, fruit, and worse met us. In twenty years of unrelenting War, many people forgot what we fought for. We were the taxes they didn’t want to pay, the monsters who killed for a living. We were dangerous. It was a difficult homecoming.
World War I’s Eastern Front was one of the largest military campaigns by area ever fought on Earth. Stretching from the Baltic to the Black Seas, Russia faced Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottomans in three unrelenting years of total war that claimed sixteen million casualties. In the end, the Russian Empire collapsed and Vladimir Lenin built the Soviet Union out of the ashes of revolution. And so ended Russia’s involvement in The War.
I’m a rather outgoing person. I could party all day long and never get tired. Being with people energizes me, gives me a rush like no drug ever created. I guess that makes people my drug of choice. Some might say I’m addicted. I favor the train of thought that you’re only addicted if you try to kick the habit and can’t. I have never once tried to break the habit of people. So I guess that means I’m not addicted. Right?
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