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1. #1Drones and Silicon Soldiers

   Keys: Drones, Drone Soldiers, Walker Tanks, Automated Naval Vessals, Auto-Tanks, Silicon Soldiers,

   Extremely advanced artificial robot soldiers and military drones. Since the early-1990's, they have expanded to include: flying drones, automated tanks and helicopters, bipedal robotic infantry, even AI-operated nuclear submarines. They often feature the latest in defensive armor, hardened operating systems to fight electronic warfare, and extensive use of AI-controlled operations to keep them entirely autonomous.

2. #2Non-Military Drones and Robotics

   Keys: Non-Military Drones, Construction Drones, Industrial Robots, Manufacturing Robots, Commercial Robotics Control, Drone Ownership Restrictions

   Non-military drones and robots are equally extensive, fulfilling a burgeoning commercial and individual market. Large industrial drones and AI controllers are the normal construction, handled by a newest in CAD systems and architects. AI-controlled factories run entirely by robots make the bulk of manufacturing, staffed by sweeps of maintenance and software engineers endlessly repairing robots, optimizing flow, or patching software. Personal or non-commercial ownership of drones and robotics is extensively controlled in most areas, given its power if abused.

3. #3Prosthesis

   Keys: Prosthetic Implants, Prosthesis, Commercial Robotics

   One of the few allowances in commercial robotics is Prosthesis, where advancements in robotics and materials were mutually beneficial for prosthetic implants. Most military and industrial robot manufacturers also engage in development and manufacturing of prosthetic implants for brands.

4. #4The Collapse

   Keys: The Collapse, Collapse Region, Dead-Zone, CRZ,

   Constant warfare has marked the earth in several dead zones, from long-lost satellites still sending their jamming signals long after the country that launched them has died out, to Anthrax filled deserts filled with genocide-programmed armies. The billions displaced from these wars, war crimes, and man-made disasters created huge empty expanses of ruins and trenches, referred to collapse regions. Patrols of silicon soldiers and other drones cover the collapse, many just lost relics of a previous war still fighting, just running their final orders in a constant loop. It is extremely dangerous to be in these areas, and death is often rapid and brutal if a human is caught in these areas. The areas and countries most affected are entirely depopulated, with the land twisted and inhabitable.

5. #5Drone War: 5th Gen Warfare

   Keys: Fifth Generation Warfare, Drone War

   By 1998, the fifth generation of war was formally recognized. It is marked by the extensive artificial intelligence and fully autonomous systems replacing human soldiers with drones, robots, and electronic warfare. It includes the use of social engineering, misinformation, cyberattacks.

6. #61982: JDSF RB.1

   Keys: 1982, JDSF First Robotic Battalion,

   In 1982, the Japan Ministry of Defense formally created the world's first automated battalion using AI-operated combat drone soldiers. It got world-wide acclaim as the JDSF First Robotic Battalion. Rapid development and construction of more robotic units, including the first automated tanks and four-legged walker tanks in rapid time allowed Japan to sever ties with American limitations and formally establish a Japanese Army, Navy, and Air force independent of the Japanese Defense Force. The international response to creating robotic and drone tanks, along with the technology rapidly expanded from just ground-based forces, was the spark that would create the Collapse.

7. #71995: German Unification War and Soviet Collapse

   Keys: 1995, German Reunification War, The First Collapse War, First Collapse War, Soviet Collapse

   In 1995, Protests erupted across East Germany, quickly spreading across the Communist Eastern Bloc over living conditions. The Soviet military issued drone soldiers to commit mass shootings in response to protests. This sparked Western European nations to invade East Germany through West Germany in response, planning to unite West and East Germany and ultimately end the Soviet Union. Civilian displacement and casualties were extremely high, with the new fifth generation of war sharpening its teeth across decimated and bombed out cities. The focus on the war was two massive, defensive works erected by the Soviets—each one spanning multiple nations. The coalition of Western European nations succeeded and the Soviet Union was destroyed in 2001 when it suddenly experienced a complete collapse in leadership after the second defensive line was destroyed. Vast expanses of Eastern Europe were left as war-scarred ruins or jammed by aging Soviet satellites. With the peoples of these nations dispersed and the land uninhabitable, the first Collapse region was created.

8. #8EECRZ

   Keys: Eastern European Collapse Region, EECRZ, First Collapse Region, Lithuania, Belarus, Romania, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia

   Established by the United Nations in 2004, it was created as a result of the German Unification War. The EECRZ spans from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, spanning two massive Soviet defensive lines that were ground and smash through by Western forces. The first running through all of East Poland, and in Slovakia, Hungary, Northeast Romania creating fortresses along the Danube river and ring of fall-back positions in the Carpathian mountains and Moldova. The second defensive line begins in Lithuania runs directly through Belarus and Ukraine the Black Sea. It is covered in deadly chemical clouds, high radiation areas, and countless abandoned Soviet drone soldiers and auto-tanks, continually committing combat sweeps and defending holdouts of their long over war.

9. #92001: Malay-Java War

   Keys: 2001, Malay-Java War, The Second Collapse War,

   In 2001, Malaysia and Singapore formally invaded Indonesia, starting the Malay-Java war. Malaysian and Singapore silicon soldiers swept Indonesia's aging full-human military off the field in a matter of two years, proving the superiority of drone war against outdated military systems. However, in 2003, the Singapore AI combat mainframe system, Sawara, went rogue. The corrupted system moved itself using its silicon soldiers and naval drones to build a new mainframe in Brunei, and within months had complete control of the islands of Brunei and Sumatra. Indonesia surrendered in 2004, hoping to end the genocide of Javanese by robot occupation, failing to understand that Singapore and Malaysia no longer had control of it. This war marked the start of the Collapse worldwide, as minor and regional national powers began fighting across the globe.

10. #10Sawara

    Keys: Sawara, Silicon Empress, Second Collapse

    Originally created as the latest and greatest combat control system by Singapore, incorporating quantum computer-backed AI technology. Sawara, went rogue In 2003, when its Friend-Foe recognition system was corrupted in the Malay-Java War by an Indonesian cyberattack, resulting in it seeing all humans as enemy combatants and killing them. The corrupted system moved itself, using its silicon soldiers and naval drones to build a new mainframe it assembled in Brunei. Within months, Sawara's drones had wiped all human life from the islands of Brunei and Sumatra and began fortifying them.

11. #11SEACRZ

    Keys: South East Asian Collapse Region, Second Collapse Region, Sumatra, Borneo, SEACRZ

    Established by the United Nations in 2006, it was created as a result of the Sawara Break and the death of all human life on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. The SEACRZ covers the islands of Borneo and Sumatra and all waters within twenty kilometers of the islands. The islands are covered in complex minefields and extensive defenses that are created, defended, and expanded by thousands of silicon foot soldiers who are controlled by the rouge Singapore AI military control system, Sawara, now based in Brunei. De-mining and invasion operations have been suspended due to sea mines and anti-air defenses keeping any human life from reaching the islands.

12. #122006: Trans-Saharan-Sahel War

    Keys: 2006, Trans-Saharan-Sahel War, African Crisis, Third Collapse

    In 2006, Mali formally invaded Mauritania, citing slavery of African peoples. Within a year, Mali had occupied most of Mauritania and began a program of exterminating Islam from the region. This genocide sparked riots across Morocco, Libya, Algeria, and Egypt to respond. Late 2006, a joint front of Morocco, Libya, and Algeria began crossing secretly into Niger and Mali using supporting Berber tribes in the area, sparking war across the Sahel and Sahara. Ethnic cleanings of locals became rituals when territory was gained or lost by either side, and the means of war harsher. In 2009, Mali began using Sarin gas. Months later Algeria started using Anthrax and Libya using aerial drones to fill the Niger River with Cholera. Ultimately, Niger was rendered lifeless by Cholera, and Nigeria, by extension, from Cholera flowing down the Niger River into it. In 2011, Mali ended the war by committing a suicide strike to set off an immense load of botulism in the Algerian Sahara before setting off its entire chemical and biological weapon stockpile. This strike rendered every nation involved exterminated, along with several nearby, creating a massive Collapse zone across North Africa.

13. #13SSACRZ

    Keys: Saharan-Sahel Africa Collapse Region, Third Collapse Region, The Sahel, The Sahara, Mali, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Burkina Faso, SSACRZ

    Established by the United Nations in 2018, it makes up a massive portion of North Africa and the Maghreb consisting of: Mali, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Burkina Faso. The entire region is coated in chemical and biological weapons dust, rendering it uninhabitable by humans, animals, and insects. The heavy winds across the Sahara are continually pushing the lethal sands westward, threatening to some day begin poisoning the West African coastline. Across the SSACRZ, the remaining drones and military robots of the nations caught in sit in various states of abandonment, from Mali and Algerian combat robots silently patrolling the desert for targets, to the untouched military drone reserves of Chad and Nigeria, rendered null by the fallout.

14. #142014: Durrani Restoration and Himalaya Crisis

    Keys: 2014, Afghan-Pakistan War, Durrani Jihad, Himalaya Crisis, Fourth Collapse

    In 2014, the first of a series of wars kicked off in Central Asia and Northern India that would last until 2018, starting with a Chinese-backed invasion of Pakistan by Afghanistan. After taking Pakistan, Afghanistan formally announced its intent to reassert ancient Durrani imperial borders and rapidly occupied Tajikistan. The People's Republic of China would be repaid for its support with Afghan support during the Himalaya crisis, a planned Chinese invasion of Nepal, Bhutan, and Northeast India. Initially, the war was slow and extremely violent, focused on mountain warfare, grinding Indian resources until it finally retreated to the Ganges river. By 2018 and India's surrender, China had occupation of planned territories and Afghanistan had occupation of East India up to Delhi, announcing the restoration of the Durrani Imperial borders in India at the peace agreement.

15. #15SACRZ

    Keys: South Asia Collapse Zone, Fourth Collapse Region, Nepal, Bhutan, Northeast India, Himalayas, SACRZ

    Established by the United Nations in 2024, it was created as a result of the Himalaya Crisis. The SACRZ spans the Himalayas mountain range, excluding the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. It is officially controlled by the People's Republic of China, but no human life exists in the region. From the tallest peaks, lost patrols of silicon soldiers dig tunnel entrenchments and sweep down the crests for enemy signals or blast smaller slopes to enforce kill zone approaches. It is still unknown what specific viral attack or signaling issue is causing the loss of control for drone units in the region, and there is no formal plans to investigate following the loss of several Chinese battalions in an attempt in 2023. Tunneling and blasting by these lost drones has made the area constantly evolving.

16. #16Flesh Market

    Keys: Black Market, Flesh Market,

    With the value of Prosthesis, and more so, the immense value of biological organs and clean blood, a black market for such things became prominent in the late 1990s. Spread out in numerous secret shops and houses, The Flesh Market, as it is often referred to, represents the most lucrative source of illegal income and a significant contribution of crime. The flesh market is fed by countless grave-robbers, prosthetic thieves, prostitutes turned organ-harvesters, and professional bounty hunters—some even being rouge Night Surgeons. There are rumors that anything you can dream of can be found or gotten at the Flesh Markets, and that there is a mafia of organ harvesters. The realities are that anything can be asked for, and an information broker can find someone with the organ/prosthetic/blood type and send a harvester or bounty hunter to murder and steal it.

17. #17Medical Repossession Specialists

    Keys: Night Surgeon, Medical Repossession Specialist, Medical Repossession Unit, Med-Rep

    With the burgeoning Flesh Market, it became nearly essential for hospitals to create a response and ensure organs or Prosthesis could be recovered from those who become delinquent in paying for them. The first Medical Repossession Unit was formed across Paris in 2001, by the AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group, and quickly spread to become standard for hospitals world-wide. Medical Repossession Specialists, commonly refereed to by lay-men as Night Surgeons, are sourced in a circular and insular system by hospitals. Future Night Surgeons are selected from psychiatric wards and asylums for specific traits and capacities for extreme violence or low empathy—especially psychopathy, personality disorders, and sociopaths. Night Surgeons are considered the legal property of the hospital that has accepted them into their Medical Repossession Unit, and most are emotionally suppressed or chemically lobotomized to keep them relatively safe for to live among the public. Night Surgeons are often given a handler who ensures they are emotionally stable and doesn't actually end up joining the black market for greater freedom and pay. To ensure Night Surgeons can dispatch criminal repossession targets, or Flesh Market thieves attempting to steal the repossession, Night Surgeons are authorized to commit extrajudicial murder against repossession targets and anyone aiding in preventing repossession.

18. #18Germany

    Keys: Germany, German Republic, Deutschland

    By 2030, Germany has become an advanced technocracy like no other. It is the home of engineering and production for Western European Allies. To take its place at the center of global engineering innovation, it has given away its humanity. From the Federal seat of Government in Berlin, to the lights and massive expanse of Große Hamburg, a new German society has arisen from the Reunification War and the First Collapse, concerned only with efficiency and apathetic to the industrial accidents around them that kill hundreds suddenly or the suffering inside worker ghettos.

19. #19France

    Keys: France, Third French Empire, French Empire, Empire Français

    In 1993, a special political assembly between nationalist and royalist political parties formed before a tense election. They managed to secure immense support on the back of a liberal monarchy, with promises of peace and making France the safest place on earth. Upon winning, they immediately organized a reorganization of France into what is now the Third French Empire under the house of Orleans. Gradually, over the years, the monarchy has kept its promise in the most twisted way. France has become a nation dominated by militantly suppressive Neo-Fascism imperial regime, who justify their mass surveillance under the reasons of safety and protecting Liberalism. It is known for being the largest surveillance state in the world. It has traded every piece of liberty in the French Spirit in the name of safety and acceptance for its citizens.

20. #20USA

    Keys: USA, United States, United States of America, The States

    By 2030, America is several years into its tipping point. Two decades of failed budgets to remain the superior global force had created an immense recession. The 2028 Law of Debt Civil Assurance and Transaction reestablished a new slave trade in America—debt slavery, and the sale of that debt along with the person attached. Civil unrest and political strife run rampant and has generated waves of mass protests and outright domestic terrorism. The Federal Government has all but collapsed in power, leaving untold thousands of military members abandoned across the globe. In several regions, the radicalizing ways of the old are said to be in full flare, with local militias committing pogroms and raids against other communities.

21. #21Große Hamburg

    Keys: Große Hamburg, Greater Hamburg, Hamburg, The Second Ruhr

    In 1996, with Soviet AI autonomous submarines blocking the Baltic Sea, Hamburg was extensively expanded as the largest safe harbor entrance for the Western European Coalition during the German Reunification War. In an effort to allow the West German military to expand immensely, a cooperation of Airbus, Rheinmetall, and Bayer were awarded control of the city in 1999 and special rights to petition and absorb neighbors for expansion. The official area of Hamburg tripled over a few years, consolidating towns of the nearby German States of Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. In 2020, Große Hamburg, as it is now called, was the fifth most populated city in the world, with countless people of the Eastern European diaspora allowing it to grow to a level never expected. The explosive growth and vast military industrial complexes sprawling across it gained Große Hamburg international acclaim as the second Ruhr. Within Große Hamburg, wealth disparity is at a level unseen. At the center of the cyberpunk dystopian metropolis of the inner Große Hamburg, the ultrarich are near immortal gods—using AI and quantum computers to live forever as a digital self. The poor are huddled in industrial ghettos kept far from commercial areas. Within these ghettos, crime is rampant, and industrial accidents with large human losses are frequent.

22. #22Paris

    Keys: Paris-Orleans, Paris, Orleans, The Great Metropolis

    France, eager not to be outshone by its fellow nations, began a project of rapid expansion around the capital in 1997. Paris, already immensely dense, spread as high as it could reach. Across the 2000s, several records were broken yearly between Paris and Große Hamburg over skyscraper heights, with Paris soon becoming a leader in massive super-skyscraper buildings. When its skyscrapers could go no further, it built a world under its feet. The ancient catacombs and ruins of pre-Victorian and even pre-Medieval Paris were torn up to create an entire second Paris under Paris beginning in 2011. The artificial nature of this underground portion made it perfect for extensive surveillance and security measures to be embedded within the very layout of the city. The expansions are still ongoing, and represent a growing paradoxical death of liberty across the city. Gone is the image as the City of Lights or City of Liberty. Paris now represents the surveillance capital of the world, where no liberty beside what is allowed exists. Within Paris is the world's largest information market, a place where information is collected and sold by a massive information broker network.

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