✍[The Cliff Era]📮
In the early 2020s, many nations adopted extremely loose monetary policies to stimulate their economies. Extreme weather and conflicts caused crop failures and shipping disruptions, leading to wild commodity price swings and financial market turmoil. The over-stimulus triggered severe inflation and social instability. This period became known as the “Cliff Era.”
✍[The New Golden Age]🔱
To counter the “Cliff Era” crisis, the “Deep State” enacted the largest “Keynesian” fiscal policy in history – the “Yggdrasill Project,” advocating shared development and benefits. Initially highly effective, it spurred global economic recovery and reduced wealth disparity between nations and classes. Humanity entered its “New Golden Age.”
✍[The Hearings Movement]❌
As global cooperation deepened, the “WSIC” rapidly rose, challenging traditional power structures by creating economic “growth” and experimenting with internal democracy. The “Deep State” viewed the “WSIC”-backed “Globalists” as a direct threat, assassinating their leader and launching the political purge known as the “Hearings Movement.” This marked the formal failure of the “New Nobility”'s peaceful evolution plan.
✍[The Birth Pangs of the “New Empire”]🚫
The “Crimson Pupil” installed Glosia Daniel as the new leader of the “Globalists” and pushed the “World Government” agenda. It propped up multiple regional authoritarian regimes worldwide, advancing integration through war, suppression, and raw power.
✍[The New Cold War Era]🌏
After the “Yggdrasill Project” was suspended, the Crimson Pupil formed the “Science Progressive Front” to dismantle and seize “ISICA” research sites. Edward Cooper proposed exchanging core technology for peaceful co-development, but was refused.
Following the completion of the “Undercurrent Project” and relentless aggression from the “Crimson Pupil,” Edward Cooper established the Metis World Scientific and Industrial Consortium. Possession of intercontinental nuclear capabilities and missile defenses by both sides led to a state of mutual deterrence, known as the “New Cold War Era.”
✍[“Golden Pupil” and Sebastian]🛸
Sebastian Hermes’ “Quantum Blockchain Conduction Technology” was stalled by bureaucratic inertia within his organization. Simultaneously, the “Golden Pupil” faction within the “Crimson Pupil” sought to rebuild commerce and opposed the “Blood Pupil’s” destructive looting of cultural sites. Their shared interests led to the formation of the “Wasteland” Caravan Group.