What part of an earth like place but not earth do you not get?(Please do not take offence to that, that's just how it came out) I know you like your tech stuff following a logical line and for times to make sense, and I respect that, however to we need to have this earth like place to have advancements in the exact same areas, and use the same basic time settings? Joseph could very well been enslaves 500 years ago, and still have the tech that we have now the way it is. His enslavement has nothing to do with the tech and time placement of the war, only that he was enslaved right after the war, which happened 500 years ago, on a place that is not earth, just a lot like it. When I was talking about when slavery ended in America, I was not saying that america even had to exists, just that that was the level of technology at the time slavery ended, that way the whole thing could make a kind of linear sense for a person born on this planet. 

*Long exhale* Sorry that came out the way it did, I'm just a little, *Nyaaaaa*, at this point about making the world so. . . .Real Life? Does that make sense? What if I wanted there to be cars 20 years before there were cars here on earth, just because on this world, they focused more on that than other branches of science and technology way back when? I don't wanna use dates like 1800 and 2000, because that makes are nice little made of fantasy realm a little to. . .Exacting? Is that the right word? We can come up with what tech we have as we play, and what tech we lost as well, as it becomes relevant. Joseph was enslaved after a war that threw the linear timeline of tech, which up to that point may have been focused in completely different areas than what is was in our reality, into a complete maelstrom of WTF, and after things settled, it stalled mostly due to the new need that the crazy humans had to get every last magical under their thumb. I think beyond that, we should just let it all develop naturally as we RP. . . . .