Hopefully it is up the standards of the game.

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[h2][b]▼ DESCRIPTION ▼[/b][/h2][hr][hr]
[indent][sup][Science Fiction, Fantasy][/sup][/indent]

[b][u]The First Divergence[/u][/b]

This was once a world identical to ours, but everything changed around the 1750s. It wasn’t a large change, it wasn’t likely to be either a single change or perhaps even a single series of related events. Whatever the case, it is impossible up to this point in time to be able to trace back what was the First Divergence itself.

[b][u]Between the Divergences[/u][/b]

[hider=History]During the 1750s and the 1760s there were several important attempts at reforms regarding the taxation system and the relation of it with the representation of the colonies in the British Parliament. Most of these projects failed and of the ones that succeeded could only do so in a form where their impact would not be significant enough. They became peripheral in their scope or modified until their base concepts were taken out of them, something which ended in the costly three Wars of North American Independence, which together lasted twenty-two years and were spread over a period of twenty-seven. The inconclusive result of the wars through most of their duration was a terrible pressure on the British Parliament, which soon radicalized into two fields, those that supported the ideas of liberalizing their colonies and even some of the independence movements, and those who sook to tighten their hold on their remaining colonies. This destroyed what little cohesion had been existing at the time inside the Parliament. This was joined the social upheaval caused by the tremendous economic strain and the hunger and scarcity that said strain had produced, which forced a social divide mirroring that of the Parliament which would translate into the popular uprisings of 1782 and 1785.

While the war situation in the North American continent was varied through time in terms of tactical dominance, the strategic situation deteriorated in a slow but steady manner for the British Empire. While this is attributed to many factors, most experts coincide in that the devastation of the colonies played a fundamental role. With armies being harder to field for each side thanks to lack of supplies and the British lacking the home advantage, the North American rebels inflicted a tremendous cost on lives, supplies and economic strain on the Isles themselves. Furthermore, the campaigns on the Second War of North American Independence that devastated Lower Canada would play a pivotal role, forcing the British to redeploy their armies and pass their supplies through the sea in the later stages of the Second War and the early ones of the Third War so as not to overload the agricultural yield of the Canadian heartland and cause another rebellion that would effectively push out their last hold on the continent. However, the causes of the British Revolution are many and another vital one can be found on the foreign side.

The Franco-Spanish intervention in the war can be considered the reason that delayed the fracturing of the United States from the start of the Third War of North American Independence to the middle stages of said conflict. Indeed, the economic support brought by the, later known as, Latin Alliance was what motivated the February Retaliation by General Washington. The bold invasion was both a strategic decision to unbalance the British dominance of New England and a stratagem to deviate the public attention from the impeding utter economic catastrophic collapse which the rebels would be suffering. It was a known fact at the time in the high spheres of the United States and the British Empire that there would be both an economic collapse and a splintering of the United States in the near future. Nevertheless, the conflict did not turn for the better for the Isles before that moment arrived with the direct intervention of France. 

The loss of their main fleet to the French at the end of the Third American War of Independence in 1786 at the catastrophic Sixth Battle of The Channel gave a wide opening to the European allies of the Revolutionaries in the Americas to blockade the Isles. This proceeded for two years without the intended effect in the British nation, until the Great Admiralty Mutiny in 1789. This would begin the First British Revolution, or as it would be latter called, the Silent Revolution.

Despite its name, the Silent Revolution was a tremendously violent affair, though it’s repercussions would be mostly deployed by the Parliament, now in control of the revolutionaries. After the beginning, the Royal family would be held in domiciliary reclusion for most of the beginning of the conflicts uninterruptedly. Said fact, while making them prisoners in their own country and palaces, would keep the core of the Royal family safe from the most radicalized revolutionaries, who sook to remove the monarchy itself.

The Silent Revolution’s era Parliament would make peace with the Latin Alliance and offer it several times to the heads of the American Revolt, without much success on the second front. This would allow the tired British Isles to recuperate, import supplies from abroad and reconstruct itself, including its army. A combination of firstly, the intervention of the British Empire directly against the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, and secondly, the Second Latin Alliance to intervention against the revolutionary Empire resulted in the ignition of the British Revolutionary Wars in 1792.

After the victory against the Sixth coalition, the British war machine had overextended itself vastly more than ever before by controlling most of central and western Europe. With the devastating defeat at the hands of the Russian empire after their betrayal in the Danubian theatre of the war, the morale at an all time low after Austria managed to take revenge from the Burning of Wien and the Sack of Prag and finally, the attrition caused by the North American and Iberian campaigns, the British broke. The haphazard retreat of the armies from eastern Europe after the chain of command was broken led to critical inaction on the army’s part, resulting in the definite toppling of the monarchy and the execution of the Royal family. This is considered the trigger event for the beginning of the Outcry Revolution in 1812.

The Outcry revolution saw the reign of terror and the destruction and reshaping of most of the monarchical institutions. After the declaration of 1807 in which the former lands under the homeland institutions of the Empire of England, were granted the status of Dominions, the first phase of the Outcry revolution saw the largest changes into the administrative system of the British Isles up to that point in time.

Two years of chaos and disorder later, in 1809, the Outcry Revolution would end with the General Staff of the Royal Army taking things in their own hands. The General Staff, supported by most of the Royal Army which had finally finished to mop up things on Continental Europe, decided to opt for a close repeat of the Glorious Revolution by inviting a foreign prince directly related to the royal line of England to ascend to the throne. This time, the monarch would not be Dutch, but Prussian.[/hider]

Between the two divergences, the Prusso-British Empire would rise from the ashes of the First British Empire after the equivalent of the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars swept the British Isles, ending the direct line of succession. As the Glorious Revolution in the past, the Army would finally tire of the anarchy reigning in the country and supported a foreign pretender to the throne. The Prussian prince chosen would then go and unify the countries under a personal union which would then be supported by a new Acts of Union.

This new country’s first great military action would be a second wave of pan-European conflicts that would put most of central Europe under their control. The second, would be the recovery and expansion of the former British colonies in North America. And therefore, they would expand until they occupied the British Empire’s place in history and surpassed its territorial extension.

[b][u]The Second Divergence or The Event[/u][/b]

The Prusso-British Empire, still shaky since its inception in the past decades, would come face to face with The Event in 1830 and said occurrence would shape its destiny and the world’s. In 1830, Magic came alive on the world of Imperium thanks to the weakening of the dimensional barriers that separated it from the rest of the multiverse.

Portals opened in East Africa and the Southern Cone, allowing the people of Imperium to both wield magic and to expand into other parallel versions of Earth. While most of those Earths were empty, not all were so…

[b][u]The Inheritance War[/u][/b]

The Inheritance war started on 2112 with the discovery of a human-inhabited world in ruins (which would later be called Asas Douradas). This world hosted not only human nations barely holding on to the lands south of the Equator, but to the invading armies of the Magna Arthropoda.

The Magna Arthropoda are descendants of the Palaeozoic subphylum Trilobitomorpha. Great insectoids that come from the size of a small car to transatlantic ships. Masters of engineering, whether mechanical, biomechanical or genetic, they exhibit a communal lifestyle similar to Imperium’s ants but with each individual having on average a higher intelligence than a human instead of being a mostly mindless drone as one would initially expect.

The Magna Arthropoda have heavily modified their bodies inside and out with technology of all kinds and breed at the speed of insects, causing their armies to be massive in number and extremely powerful both at individual and at organizational level. It is no surprise then that the resources extracted from the 120 Earths conquered, dominated and populated by the combined might of all the states in Imperium were barely enough to halt their advance. After many battles, hundreds of millions of deaths, several Earths ruined and thirty years of warfare, with the lightest casualties being on the scale of our Stalingrad, the Magna Arthropoda were not beaten, but instead decided to retreat, likely feeling the conquest of Imperium wasn’t worth the resources invested.

[b][u]The Current Year[/u][/b]

It is the year 2475 in Imperium at the time. Most of the larger bodies in the Solar system of the original Earth are colonized and mankind enjoys a golden age, with more than 500 Earths colonized and their resources steadily flowing towards the original one. It seems that there are no problems on the horizon… But the very thing that brought them prosperity, the portals and the connections to other Earths, now have been confirmed to be dangerous to the existence of the very multiverse if they aren’t properly stabilized.

[h2][b]▼ SPECIES ▼[/b][/h2][hr][hr]

[list][*]Humans:

Humans in this world are heavily different from the ones that existed in the XX century even when not all the time they present a different physical appearance. Thanks to transhumanism, the human race has transformed itself to allow for space colonization, extreme environments and damage and, of course, to better itself whether cosmetically, physically, intellectually or in their base biology.

[*]Magna Arthropoda:

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[sup][Ambassador-alpha-type Magna Arthropoda][/sup]

The Magna Arthropoda are mysterious in many ways, but there are main facts about them that have been discovered and aren’t currently disputed. Starting with their physiology, they have fully embraced transhumanism with extensive biological and mechanical modifications to their bodies from before their birth. These mods have allowed them to become a formidable force in and out of combat, with most of them heavily modifying their bodies according to their role in society. It isn’t clear if this role is chosen by themselves or if it assigned from above.

These organisms develop their lives in a mostly communal society, however, while individualist behaviour is discouraged as it leads to selfishness and egocentrism, according to their view of life, individual thought is encouraged. As previously mentioned, the Magna Arthropoda have shown a tremendous inventive and ingenuity in their creations.[/list]

[h2][b]▼ OTHER ▼[/b][/h2][hr][hr]

[list][*]In this universe, most of what magic can do, science can do better or in a greater, often industrial, scale when combined with it.

[*]Transhumanism, while often being considered a polar opposite of magic in the past centuries, has become another means through which magic can flow. For example, why would you need to carry a group of protection ward stones when you can have those same symbols carved in your nano-component bones with atom-wide precision?[/list]
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