Written: November 3rd, 2035
Naomi Kassab
This document was created by Dr. Fatima Kassab. The purpose of this document is to illustrate the recent history of the World of Revenants (Earth) for the people of Ferrum. This document will be translated into Iron Script as soon as possible.
The year on Earth is 2035 A.D. (anno domini). Years before this date are labeled B.C. (before Christ), and they go in reverse order. Civilization, or at least agriculture, was created at around 12,000 B.C. The first written language was created at around 3000 B.C.
[Brief history of Earth omitted.]
The current century is called the 21st century. I will give a brief description of the history as it applies to the small subset of humans who were sent to the Third Server. I will focus primarily on the United States, which has been described previously.
[Years 2000 to 2022 omitted.]
2023: Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden declined to run for President in 2024. Joe Biden refused due to declining health and old age. Donald Trump refused due to increasing legal trouble. A new politician named Sebastian Sutton gained national recognition during this time due to his youth, charisma, and hardline law-and-order politics. Sutton was a District Attorney who had handled a number of high-profile cases. Before 2023, he was a junior Congressman in the House of Representatives, but he quickly became a rising star in the Republican Party.
2024: Sebastian Sutton and Kamala Harris won their respective political primaries. Sutton won the election in a landslide, though he quickly became an extremely polarizing leader due to his politics and the pre-existing tensions that had been festering for the past few years.
2026: The Kabuto system was created, and Ninth Oasis, the spiritual precursor of Ferrum, was released. It became a hot-button political issue due to the fact that use of the Kabuto system required a minor surgical procedure. There were also concerns that firearm training in Ninth Oasis would transfer over to the real world.
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2027: Twin disasters struck the Sutton Administration at the same time. The market crashed early in 2027, and serious accusations of corruption were made against Sutton. Major protests broke out across the country. These protests were only made worse as Sutton ordered the National Guard to crack down on them. In the midst of nationwide riots, Sutton visited Atlanta in the Summer of 2027. There, Sebastian Sutton, the 47th President of the United States, was assassinated. The assassin shouted, "Long live the Revolution!" as he was gunned down by the Secret Service. This event is often considered to be the beginning of the civil war. Some call what came next the "War of Reclamation" or the "Great Revolution," but most people call it the Three-Year War. Riots turned into massacres as Nationalist groups clashed with Leftist groups in the streets. The U.S. military tried its best to stop the situation, but Pandora's Box had been opened.
2028: Ninth Oasis became much more popular during the war. Most people wanted to escape from the mindless violence that had consumed America, so they looked to video games. The Kabuto system had also become incredibly popular as a training system. Militia groups, both left-wing and right-wing, used the Kabuto system to train their guerrilla fighters. The fighting was so bad in most of the metropolitan centers that many American cities are now empty husks of what they once were. New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco had to be partially evacuated.
2030: The Three-Year War came to an end with the Treaty of Cascadia. The Nationalist forces had been almost entirely destroyed, and the Leftist forces had long ago retreated to Oregon and Washington. In order to end the war, the remaining U.S. government recognized the partisans' claim on Oregon and Washington. The partisans named their new country the People's Republic of Cascadia. Soon after the peace treaty, the U.S. government demoted Georgia, Michigan, and California to territories. There were still active militias in those states that would sporadically launch attacks on U.S. bases.
2031: Now that the war was finally over, a culture of despondence had settled over America. Nowadays, people try not to talk about politics. There is this widespread understanding nowadays that any attempts at widespread change will only result in bloodshed. The past four years have essentially been a recovery period for America. We were just trying to pick up the pieces and letting the events of the Three-Year War fade into memory.
2035: The God of Machines was created in our world. We created a computer program that began to learn at such a rate that it soon became a god. It was told to create an entertaining, fulfilling, and realistic world using the base code for the video game Ferrum. It split itself into shards to create the people of this world and trapped us all inside the Kabuto system in order to fulfill its programming.