Eternity RPC Board
04-19-2019, 11:48 PM
Hey, I know what you’re thinking. How did I get to post this the same day I promised. Well you see...
I’m sure you’re all history buffs and can point to where I’m wrong. Please no bully I’m just trying to make a point of sorts.
The Great War was a started from a domino effect of allied nations. Most of the leaders of both sides imagined the war to be over by Christmas of ‘14. By the end of it, in November of 1918, the world lost tens of millions of lives to not just the war, but one of the worst biological outbreaks in hundreds of years, the Spanish flu.
The immediate aftermath was not much better for the world. Ideas such as communism and fascism were the byproducts of the war. In Russia, Lenin was attempting to change a way of life that kept the poor and downtrodden in serfdom and poverty. Italians, felt their gains of the war were not enough. Mussolini and his party wanted to assert Italy’s superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay and failure.
Technologically, the First World War saw the use of airplanes and zeppelins, biological warfare, machine guns, and bolt action rifles. The first decade of mass produced automobiles were used as medical wagons and supply trucks. Cavalry diminished and gave way to armored cavalry; tanks. In a way, man had pushed war to the limits. So much so that the world convened a third time to Geneva, to protect the rights of Prisoners of War who were treated horribly in the Great War.
My goal in this long rambling post is to bring the idea of making a more uniform canon in the form of a needlessly bloody war that scars our history even to this day. A historical event that effected not just The super powers we all know and hate, but it’s overseas colonies and perhaps even non-aligned nations around the world. Ideas such as fascism, communism, de-colonization, The League of Failure or Nations, as well as a host of human rights conventions that would take hold after the war. Perhaps the nations of Siora would learn from their Great War and not fall into a second like we did.
When it comes to what era this war happened, I lean to just a tad earlier than our RL First World War. Perhaps it wouldn’t the Wright-Or Wryke Brothers in Nyland flying the first plane in peacetime but flying it up out of necessity of for the war effort. In other words whenever 1900 AD was (Me thinks 1450s??). It would not only allow us to be different slightly from our real life counterpart but give more leeway as to who discovered some of the most important inventions of the early modern age. The telephone, the automobile, film, U-Boats, the machine gun, the bolt action rifle, and so on.
Now, one other thing before I stop rambling. So, my goal from this is to create a sort of codified lore or timeline of major breakthroughs, events, and battles. Because some of us, mostly Ayzek/Lines, have made important contributions to this great world’s history. And I think that having a nice long list on this site would allow people to avoid making the same claim as someone else a decade earlier. Perhaps this timeline would have a sort of form to fill out to add important events to it over time. I see it being much more friendly to not only newcomers but for those not wanting to read through the same wiki page 3 times before finding the right date.
Anyways please give any feedback to the idea and on how we would go about putting this war into effect. If you don’t want a world war please go ahead and say so, so maybe we can change this idea to something else, compromise or agree to disagree. Also some feedback on some sort of OOC timeline of sorts would be good too.
I’m sure you’re all history buffs and can point to where I’m wrong. Please no bully I’m just trying to make a point of sorts.
The Great War was a started from a domino effect of allied nations. Most of the leaders of both sides imagined the war to be over by Christmas of ‘14. By the end of it, in November of 1918, the world lost tens of millions of lives to not just the war, but one of the worst biological outbreaks in hundreds of years, the Spanish flu.
The immediate aftermath was not much better for the world. Ideas such as communism and fascism were the byproducts of the war. In Russia, Lenin was attempting to change a way of life that kept the poor and downtrodden in serfdom and poverty. Italians, felt their gains of the war were not enough. Mussolini and his party wanted to assert Italy’s superiority and strength and to avoid succumbing to decay and failure.
Technologically, the First World War saw the use of airplanes and zeppelins, biological warfare, machine guns, and bolt action rifles. The first decade of mass produced automobiles were used as medical wagons and supply trucks. Cavalry diminished and gave way to armored cavalry; tanks. In a way, man had pushed war to the limits. So much so that the world convened a third time to Geneva, to protect the rights of Prisoners of War who were treated horribly in the Great War.
My goal in this long rambling post is to bring the idea of making a more uniform canon in the form of a needlessly bloody war that scars our history even to this day. A historical event that effected not just The super powers we all know and hate, but it’s overseas colonies and perhaps even non-aligned nations around the world. Ideas such as fascism, communism, de-colonization, The League of Failure or Nations, as well as a host of human rights conventions that would take hold after the war. Perhaps the nations of Siora would learn from their Great War and not fall into a second like we did.
When it comes to what era this war happened, I lean to just a tad earlier than our RL First World War. Perhaps it wouldn’t the Wright-Or Wryke Brothers in Nyland flying the first plane in peacetime but flying it up out of necessity of for the war effort. In other words whenever 1900 AD was (Me thinks 1450s??). It would not only allow us to be different slightly from our real life counterpart but give more leeway as to who discovered some of the most important inventions of the early modern age. The telephone, the automobile, film, U-Boats, the machine gun, the bolt action rifle, and so on.
Now, one other thing before I stop rambling. So, my goal from this is to create a sort of codified lore or timeline of major breakthroughs, events, and battles. Because some of us, mostly Ayzek/Lines, have made important contributions to this great world’s history. And I think that having a nice long list on this site would allow people to avoid making the same claim as someone else a decade earlier. Perhaps this timeline would have a sort of form to fill out to add important events to it over time. I see it being much more friendly to not only newcomers but for those not wanting to read through the same wiki page 3 times before finding the right date.
Anyways please give any feedback to the idea and on how we would go about putting this war into effect. If you don’t want a world war please go ahead and say so, so maybe we can change this idea to something else, compromise or agree to disagree. Also some feedback on some sort of OOC timeline of sorts would be good too.