Monday, November 1, 2010

Ok, fine. I'll post this.

Prologue
The Planetary Wars began in 2875. Whole continents formed alliances. There was no more Britain, Japan, America. No Brazil or Egypt. There was Afraisa and Canamerica and the European Union.
If there were ever records of who fired the first nuclear rocket, they were lost long ago. After the rocket was fired, all of the remaining rules dissolved and the world slipped into nearly 150 years of chaos.
Then, there was nothing but the victors and the gone. Only the strong alliances remained; smaller, poor countries had dissipated. Many of the alliances reformed into separate nations again, but they had new priorities. Freedom and happiness of the people wasn’t as important as survival.
Out of the ruins of Canamerica, rose Sarenaia. Sarenaia was the biggest, cleverest nation. It was thousands of miles of land, of resources. The government organized the people into city-states sitting in the richest places, sitting on gold-mines and forests; clean, untainted water and fields in which to grow crops.
The people who lived in Sarenaia worked the resources and turned the results into the government officials. The government paid the people in cheap grain, vegetables, and animals. The gold, clear water, wood, and crops were sold at high profit to smaller, less advantaged nations or taken by Saernaia’s leaders, for themselves.
None of the working people left his or her city-state. The government set droids and lasers and officials armed with electric guns around the perimeters, so the people could not join together, rebel, or fight back. Children were separated from their parents and taken cross-country. All of this for one purpose: greed. The leaders of Sarenaia wanted life the way it used to be. Cheap food, good life, money. Not apples four or five dollars apiece, not working all day and planning the next day all night.
Then, somehow, a woman escaped. A rather average woman, so it was thought. She escaped and ran away to Britanada, an ancient nation, now a mixture of Canada and Britain. Britanada was smaller now, but it was fair and the people were happy, if a bit poor.
The woman escaped, and somehow she met up with powerful people and formed a league, a group that aimed to take down Serenaia. That in itself wasn’t surprising, people had tried before. What shocked Serenaia was the fact that the woman had the backing of the Zeusite Alliance, the oldest and most powerful of the original Planetary Alliances.
The Zeusites had wanted to free the Sernenaians for decades, but they were too far away, based in Greeco-Italia. But now they had a foothold in North America, by way of the newly-formed Athenian League, led by an average woman named Abby Harrington.

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