Name: Anonymous 2016-05-07 6:40
Coloreds stream out of Europe by the hundreds of thousands as the various crises winding down in their homelands wind down, eager to rebuild. Things approach normalcy as the US forces assert dominance in the region, but a guerrilla campaign is waged against them. For several years, things continue until the US relents and withdraws troops. Grateful Muslims rebuild the destroyed buildings in the US. The Chinese economy begins a slow decline as people flee the cities for the safe obscurity of the countryside. The War On Terror winds down, laws are repealed, weapons are set aside, and the world enjoys relative peace under global US hegemony.
But things can never last. Almost overnight, Russia rises to a place of prominence in world affairs. The threat of nuclear war is constant, and the worlds picks sides. Both nations begin the process of extracting more and more wealth from their allies for five decades. Over time, an uneasy peace emerges between the two, and become convinced that they can coexist and rule the world together. The Japanese, long chaffing under the US military dictatorship, announces that they will no longer tolerate such treatment. The US responds by dropping two nuclear bombs on them. Global war breaks out almost immediately. The US, Russia, and the British are forced to divide their forces to quell a rebellion in mainland Europe. In Germany, a great leader rises who inflicts great casualties on the Russian front while slowly pushing back the British as well. The Japanese are able to drive the US out of East Asia and chase them out of China.
The amount of blood wasted in these conflicts is almost immeasurable. Decades of technological progress and economic growth were destroyed forever. Wartime leaders are not nessicarily good peacetime leaders. The entire world enters into a period of depression and famine. People look back into their past and want to emulate their ancestors. It begins in Germany, as French and British troops are trying to impose their will once again. Old law books are pulled from the stacks, uniforms dusted off, and the German Monarchy is restored. The great Kaiser pushes out the invaders. Seeing the success, a claimant is found for the Czardom in Russia as well. This war was almost as bloody as the previous, and inspired the world to return to a simpler world and discard these horrible weapons for a more civilized warfare.
This nostalgia brings with it a disdain for modernism and a taste for traditionalism. Powers are routinely removed from the people and placed into the hands of divinely ordained lords who live only to rule wisely for the next few hundred years. Traveling beyond your home area is met with suspicious, and eventually, freedom of movement is suspended entirely. Many push back against this tyranny, but are swiftly crushed by the autocracy. The United States, a shell of it's former self, reduced to relying on slavery to fed it's people, loses hundreds of thousands of people per year as whites flee to the prosperous lands of Europe. The same demographic trends effect Australia and all the other colonial places. Eventually, the natives are the de facto rulers of the land as the last remaining whites return to Europe.
These new arrivals are the source of much conflict. They start many religious rebellions and antagonize their rulers. A great many people are killed until Catholicism finally triumphs over the heretics. This validates the Catholic belief system and authority, which is now near-universally recognized as the supreme authority both in Heaven and on Earth. They set to work destroying everything that may challenge this authority. After a failed war against the Central American natives, Spain is forced to levy harsh taxes to pay massive tributes and war reparations. The entire world, traumatized by centuries of war and a hatred of industrialization, retreats into dogma and mysticism. The west soon falls into a dark age.
Meanwhile, in both the Middle East and in China, there is a sudden revolution to wrestle control from their barbarian overlords. The war is swift and brutal. Soon after, China enters a period of alternating war and peace between three kingdoms, and the Middle East is ruled by a Caliph who functions as the Pope. The sole power in the West that is not completely covered in darkness is a empire formed from the ashes of the Turks they overthrew. In a long, centuries long conflict, they slowly retake Anatolia and Asia-Minor from the Muslims and take up the name of Rome to attempt to enjoy the glory and terror of that ancient name.
But these Romans were not Catholic. The power of the Catholic Church is not what it once was. It began first in the most remote regions of Russia and Germany, but spread like fire. The people began to turn to their traditional gods and pagan beliefs. After a humiliating series of failures and defeats, the Pope is forced to cede more and more lands to pagan beliefs and power to kings as close as France. The Muslim world has suffered the same fate as well, After a short-lived foray into Spain, the Muslims are driven out and continue to lose their authority. The Caliphate collapses and the Arabian empire is overrun by their subjugated people, who are filled with a vigor to worship their own traditional gods as well. The Pope was luckier, in that he was able to save the church in the west by once again swearing fealty to the Roman Emperor and denouncing the heretical ways of the Catholics. The Schism is mended!
It isn't long before the pagan revolution began to effect Rome as well. Less concerned about the ravings of priests, a series of great emperors set about reclaiming the rest of Rome as well. After pushing out an incursion from Asians, the empire begins the most grand reconstruction project ever attempted and in just a few short years, the wealth and prosperity of the Roman Empire is unmatched in the entire world. It spans from England to the Sahara, from France to Syria. By now these glorious emperors have begun to be worshiped as gods on Earth. Laws protecting the status of the Christian church are repealed as the Roman people look to the traditional Roman values and Greek philosophy for guidance rather than the church. As provinces drop away from this Empire though, the two-emperor system is discarded, and the capital is once again solely Rome proper.
But the ambitions of the Romans could not be stopped. Powerful republican revolutionaries arose and overthrew the Emperor, returning control to the Senate and the people. This was a disastrous mistake, as the decline of Rome was hastened further as province after province reclaimed their independence. Finally, but the time that Greece made to exit their sphere of influence, it was relatively easy. Soon after, the King of Greece embarked on a campaign that ended up unifying four empires under his rule. But the war was costly. After his death, the empire dissolved once again, and Greece was left a set of squabbling city states, the last remnants of Western Culture. The Persian Empire was reestablished, which was not even strong enough to conquer them. Rule of the Pharaoh was reestablished in Egypt, which watched as the last ashes of human civilization burned around them until they were the only people on earth left with the knowledge of writing and mathematics. Their decline was slower, but just as inevitable, as their cities fell into sand and perished with the rest.
But things can never last. Almost overnight, Russia rises to a place of prominence in world affairs. The threat of nuclear war is constant, and the worlds picks sides. Both nations begin the process of extracting more and more wealth from their allies for five decades. Over time, an uneasy peace emerges between the two, and become convinced that they can coexist and rule the world together. The Japanese, long chaffing under the US military dictatorship, announces that they will no longer tolerate such treatment. The US responds by dropping two nuclear bombs on them. Global war breaks out almost immediately. The US, Russia, and the British are forced to divide their forces to quell a rebellion in mainland Europe. In Germany, a great leader rises who inflicts great casualties on the Russian front while slowly pushing back the British as well. The Japanese are able to drive the US out of East Asia and chase them out of China.
The amount of blood wasted in these conflicts is almost immeasurable. Decades of technological progress and economic growth were destroyed forever. Wartime leaders are not nessicarily good peacetime leaders. The entire world enters into a period of depression and famine. People look back into their past and want to emulate their ancestors. It begins in Germany, as French and British troops are trying to impose their will once again. Old law books are pulled from the stacks, uniforms dusted off, and the German Monarchy is restored. The great Kaiser pushes out the invaders. Seeing the success, a claimant is found for the Czardom in Russia as well. This war was almost as bloody as the previous, and inspired the world to return to a simpler world and discard these horrible weapons for a more civilized warfare.
This nostalgia brings with it a disdain for modernism and a taste for traditionalism. Powers are routinely removed from the people and placed into the hands of divinely ordained lords who live only to rule wisely for the next few hundred years. Traveling beyond your home area is met with suspicious, and eventually, freedom of movement is suspended entirely. Many push back against this tyranny, but are swiftly crushed by the autocracy. The United States, a shell of it's former self, reduced to relying on slavery to fed it's people, loses hundreds of thousands of people per year as whites flee to the prosperous lands of Europe. The same demographic trends effect Australia and all the other colonial places. Eventually, the natives are the de facto rulers of the land as the last remaining whites return to Europe.
These new arrivals are the source of much conflict. They start many religious rebellions and antagonize their rulers. A great many people are killed until Catholicism finally triumphs over the heretics. This validates the Catholic belief system and authority, which is now near-universally recognized as the supreme authority both in Heaven and on Earth. They set to work destroying everything that may challenge this authority. After a failed war against the Central American natives, Spain is forced to levy harsh taxes to pay massive tributes and war reparations. The entire world, traumatized by centuries of war and a hatred of industrialization, retreats into dogma and mysticism. The west soon falls into a dark age.
Meanwhile, in both the Middle East and in China, there is a sudden revolution to wrestle control from their barbarian overlords. The war is swift and brutal. Soon after, China enters a period of alternating war and peace between three kingdoms, and the Middle East is ruled by a Caliph who functions as the Pope. The sole power in the West that is not completely covered in darkness is a empire formed from the ashes of the Turks they overthrew. In a long, centuries long conflict, they slowly retake Anatolia and Asia-Minor from the Muslims and take up the name of Rome to attempt to enjoy the glory and terror of that ancient name.
But these Romans were not Catholic. The power of the Catholic Church is not what it once was. It began first in the most remote regions of Russia and Germany, but spread like fire. The people began to turn to their traditional gods and pagan beliefs. After a humiliating series of failures and defeats, the Pope is forced to cede more and more lands to pagan beliefs and power to kings as close as France. The Muslim world has suffered the same fate as well, After a short-lived foray into Spain, the Muslims are driven out and continue to lose their authority. The Caliphate collapses and the Arabian empire is overrun by their subjugated people, who are filled with a vigor to worship their own traditional gods as well. The Pope was luckier, in that he was able to save the church in the west by once again swearing fealty to the Roman Emperor and denouncing the heretical ways of the Catholics. The Schism is mended!
It isn't long before the pagan revolution began to effect Rome as well. Less concerned about the ravings of priests, a series of great emperors set about reclaiming the rest of Rome as well. After pushing out an incursion from Asians, the empire begins the most grand reconstruction project ever attempted and in just a few short years, the wealth and prosperity of the Roman Empire is unmatched in the entire world. It spans from England to the Sahara, from France to Syria. By now these glorious emperors have begun to be worshiped as gods on Earth. Laws protecting the status of the Christian church are repealed as the Roman people look to the traditional Roman values and Greek philosophy for guidance rather than the church. As provinces drop away from this Empire though, the two-emperor system is discarded, and the capital is once again solely Rome proper.
But the ambitions of the Romans could not be stopped. Powerful republican revolutionaries arose and overthrew the Emperor, returning control to the Senate and the people. This was a disastrous mistake, as the decline of Rome was hastened further as province after province reclaimed their independence. Finally, but the time that Greece made to exit their sphere of influence, it was relatively easy. Soon after, the King of Greece embarked on a campaign that ended up unifying four empires under his rule. But the war was costly. After his death, the empire dissolved once again, and Greece was left a set of squabbling city states, the last remnants of Western Culture. The Persian Empire was reestablished, which was not even strong enough to conquer them. Rule of the Pharaoh was reestablished in Egypt, which watched as the last ashes of human civilization burned around them until they were the only people on earth left with the knowledge of writing and mathematics. Their decline was slower, but just as inevitable, as their cities fell into sand and perished with the rest.