Things have certainly changed.
From 2232 to 2252 a solar flare hit Planet and ended all communications for two dreaded decades. Those decades saw the deaths of at least 1,549,000 people, the true start of the Atlantic Cold War, the eradication of two factions, the start of the Atlantean Civil War and the appearance of Planet's first wild mindworm boil and its first fungal towers. Collectively, these years would be known as the dark decades. Through these years of chaos and death the University and Believers emerged once more further above the other factions as rivals, even as the Pangean common market began to collapse and commerce began to cease.
Mission year 2239, the Lord's Believers test fire a medicine missile on an isolated island off the coast of Easterbase Ruins, birthing Planet's first ever fungal tower. Named red willow, the great alien construct is observed from afar by pilots brave enough to endure the psi attacks and deadly atmosphere. A research exclusion zone is designated and patrols regularly sent to ward tourists and delinquents away from the mysterious and enigmatic tower the government deems too dangerous for the common public to have access of it.
Only the advent of the Red Famine and the Second Great Famine took the public's mind off of Red Willow's island.
Pictured: Famine strikes the University just as hard as the Believers. Also pictured, the last needlejet squadron of the Free Drone's airforce on its last sortie before being shot down by the University air force.
Pictured: Famine strikes the Believers just as hard as the University, but the cloning vats allows for quick repopulation of emptied bases.
The Believing population of ocean level lowering causes much less moisture to be accessible in the atmosphere, making many formerly fertile lands become arid wastelands unfit for agricultural development. Coupled with the University unleashing an awful plague of red xenofungus upon the entire world, mass starvation is rife.
The Morganite lands were modest, avaricious hubs of wretched ambition. Long since had they been eroded again and again by Believing colonies and various invading factions until only their northern HQs and their southern Hive prizes remained.
Fresh from their victory against the Spartans the Morganites decided to steal from the Believing datalinks the files on quantum power.
I immediately canceled our pact and freshly awaited the reopening of diplomatic channels once the solar flare ended so the Righteous Believers and scoundrel Morganites could once more trade openly.
Everything changed when the Morganites attacked.
Retaliation was swift.
The Morganite army was expensive and wasteful, used more to police fat drones and hit them with stunjacks than to present a real threat. The Believers, whose armies were tools of right education and defence, swept the Morganite resistance off of Pangea.
Seized documents revealed the Morganites were intending to stockpile their own Planet Busters for unknown reasons.
History will remember the mogul who tried to tear down Pangea - and failed!
Proper education will remember his pain, and see it translated into such loyal reminders of how one can fall from service to the Lord to the service of the body.
The Believers spotted their first ever wild mindworm boil that spawned naturally from xenofungus and not from some Medicine Missile. The Believing former teams had become complacent in their placement of sensor towers and observation grids; by not surveying all the land under their watchful gaze the Lord's Believers had allowed the wildlife to propagate unhindered by extermination teams, endangering the base inhabitants.
The battle of the Atlantic Sea extends to Western Pangea as University locust boils and IODs drop wave after wave of soldiers on the shores and overwhelm Believing air defences on the West with numbers alone. Thanks to the Atlantean Civil War however, the University fail to secure a permanent foothold with the Free Drones hampering their domestic affairs at every turn.
Eastern air defences maintain maximum strength.
Even if IODs somehow manage to slip through every now and then.
The Lord's Believers consolidate all of Northern and Central Pangea into the Believing fold, leaving only the Peacekeepers and the Hive with their tense border relations to the south and the Atlantean factions embroiled in bitter conflict in the East.
The complete total collection of all population changes in the world, from the start to the end. A red year is one in which the population decreased due to deaths outweighing population growth, a green year is one in which deaths and growths are in equilibrium and a light blue indicates growth. It is interesting to note that the moment the Believers gained political superiority it contended and eventually gained economical superiority and with both it became the global overall power.
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