THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILZATION
    Although technology and world culture progressed rapidly throughout the twentieth century, their advancements paled in comparison to the seemingly recckless leaps that would follow. By he end of the twenty-first century, mankind had seen bold and unprecidented changes within the world. Radical new technologies were surfacing at incredible rates, offering increased access to advanced computers and informational databases to even the most desolute nations of Earth. In the wake of the erdication of communism from the Eastern Nations, nuclear weapons quicly became available in abundance, the international power structure, once defined primarily by the acquisition of caital and military superiority, was blasted apart as third-world nations rose to challenge the economic and military might of the world's super-powers.  As the manipulative sciences of cybernetics, cloning and gene-splicing rose steadily into the public forum, militant hunanists and hard-line religious groups challenged the rights of private interest corporations who profited from genetic experimentation. Multitudes of people were being augmented with cybernetic implants while others begane to manifest slight physical mutations ranging from heightened senses to advanced telepathy. These dramaic changes within the human gene pool caused wide spread panic amongst many of he fundamental humanist factions. Technology continued to evolveand spread, and population rates soared. Near the end of the twentieth century, there were 6 billion people upon earth. Within three hundred years, the population had grown to an estimated twenty-three billion. Pollution and a lack of natural resources and affordable fuels added to the fire as world leaders sought ways to stem the growth of their nation's inhabitants. Popular sentiment held that the world was plummeting to an inevitable catastrophe as overpoulation and genetic alteration swept across the globe. Meanwhile, as tensions rose around the world regarding the use and capitilization of cybernetics and genetic mutations, many core international economics systems folded in upon themsleves and shut down. Horrific acts of terroris and ciolence erupted between the corporate sector and the humanist factions, resulting in forced police actions spurred by the already rampant civil chaos in many of the larger countries. Ultimately, the precarious balance of world power exploded into international pandemonium.

THE NEW ORDER
    On November 22, 2229, the United Powers League was founded. The UPL was to become the ultimate incarnation of the vision of a unified humanity held by the now defunct United Nations. This new order encompassed and controlled close to ninety-three percent of the earth's poulation, failing only to bring order to a few volatile South American states. The UPL was founded upon the bases of 'enlightened socialism', but often resortd to harsh, facist police actions to maintain the public order. With its control lasting for nearly eighty years, the UPL begane to devise a rigid agenda that would unify the various cultures of humaity for all time. Great lengths were taken to eradicate the last vestiges of racial separatism, and the Unitariate Commissions banned many of the world's oldest religions. English was designated as the common tongue of the planet, replacing many ancient languages that were subsiquently banned in their native countries. Although religions were officially banned by the UPL, the organization held an almost zealous belief in the supposed 'devinity of manking'. This quasi-religious dogma called for the immediate eradication of any non-vital prosthetics or mutations amongst the pure-strain human gene pool. Hard-line UPL proponents and scholars argued that genetic alteration, cyber technology, and the use of psychoactive drugs all led to the eventual degeneration of the human species. The UPL leaders formulated a bold plan that would assre that humanity would perservere, unscathed by the tempting corruption of radical technologies.

THE GREAT PURRIFICATION
   

THE GRAND EXPERIMENT.
   

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