Political Change

The more significant wars were sudden and largely unexpected.

Of these, three of the major nuclear conflicts were computer-automated blitzes spiked with classic human jealousy, vengeance, fear and lust for bragging rights.

In the third of them the delicate balance of power between the Zerozone super-states dissolved after years of Machiavellian interference from Zerozone's only remaining proud superpower.

Once honoured guardians of civilisation the newly naked ambition of that great and wonderful land stoked visceral emotions among friend and foe.

What followed was just another bad day on a planet with a bleakly dark and dirty history of murder, treachery, envy and intrigue.

In only one hour an entire nation was set on fire. The smoke of ruin swirled the rank stench of death far around that alien globe.

The leaders of those nations most under the thrall of that once beautiful land never believed that such could be, so certain were they that their foreign masters held the wheel of destiny firmly in their grasp.

But what man, men or alien may hold fate at whim or command the cycles of the stars?

On their day of grief they were deposed.

The scene was then set for the final conflict.

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