were elected en masse and soon the country was effectively a Protestant theocracy, leading to the peaceful first Catholic uprising and its violent quashing.
The Protection Of Islam act of the EU functioned similarly. Sharia law had to be respected, criticism was prohibited, and the globe finally found itself split between Muslim rule in the eastern hemisphere and Christian in the west.
Politics stagnated for decades. The quality of living decreased slowly, marred by the prohibition of vaccinations, which led to widespread disease, the restriction of womenâs rights across the planet, the downfall of higher education, and more. It was in this age of decline that June Waystone, after her release from prison on heresy charges, posted the work sheâd written inside, a work that put her right back in prison before she could say âinjustice.â But the work, The Foolish Weaver , was on the net and impossible to stop. It revealed to the public the first âWorld Cold War.â
Christian America and Muslim Europe were at the brink of going hot. Intelligence in Europe had found Muslims in internment camps in the United States. Intel in the States had uncovered mass executions of Christians in Denmark. Both blocs were planning military intervention. Waystone didnât stop at these revelations. She also proved that the intel on both sides had been forged by Sadie Schrubb, the vehemently Christian arms manufacturer who had bought most of the US Senate.
As both sides of the globe weighed the nuclear option, The Foolish Weaver went viral in influenzal proportions. Tens of millions risked arrest by spreading the literature, and hundreds of millions found that they were not alone in their doubts about the religious nature of their countries.
The counterculture was soon ravenous, champing at the bit. The nonreligious majority was growing tired of the prospect of nuclear war. But the majority had little say. The orthodox elite that ran the country went on and instituted a draft to gather warriors of God.
For many that was the last straw. With nowhere to run from the draft, draft centers, many located in churches, were burned and bombed. When the masses were merciful, that is. When they were less so, the masters were burned alive or crucified backward, reminding a few historically savvy individuals of the Geki couple.
The revolution marked the end of the World Cold War. It quickly inspired an old world counterpart and all religion was banned for good. That inspired the less peaceful second Catholic uprising and a great number of similar events. What companies had bought up the governments of the world, as they began organizing into GAUNE and UNEGA, pursued means of controlling the uprisings while allowing religious extremists to believe they were still forces to be reckoned with, to believe they still had a say so long as they remained nonviolent.
They had to scare the religious groups into believing there was a force that could easily incinerate them all on a whim but did not. A force that allowed them to act within reason to gather and exercise the most extreme of individuals while maintaining control. Above all, a new force that could infiltrate any deviant group to frighten the holy hell out of them when they grew out of hand.
No such force had scared the religious community so since the Geki couple. Lacking any real creativity, the companies in power over the regions with the worst religious rumblings elected to resurrect the Geki.
With a few modifications of course. Instead of Molotov cocktails, Zaibatsu donated their experimental flame implants. Instead of plain black cloaks, Google donated their displacement satellites and the displacement fabric to warp across the air inside them. Pfizer donated a med chamber and Puma County donated land for a base of operations, coincidentally only seven kilometers from Andrew and Jessica Gekiâs old house. The icing on the cake came from RAND: the Farnesene Pulse.
The Protection Of Islam act of the EU functioned similarly. Sharia law had to be respected, criticism was prohibited, and the globe finally found itself split between Muslim rule in the eastern hemisphere and Christian in the west.
Politics stagnated for decades. The quality of living decreased slowly, marred by the prohibition of vaccinations, which led to widespread disease, the restriction of womenâs rights across the planet, the downfall of higher education, and more. It was in this age of decline that June Waystone, after her release from prison on heresy charges, posted the work sheâd written inside, a work that put her right back in prison before she could say âinjustice.â But the work, The Foolish Weaver , was on the net and impossible to stop. It revealed to the public the first âWorld Cold War.â
Christian America and Muslim Europe were at the brink of going hot. Intelligence in Europe had found Muslims in internment camps in the United States. Intel in the States had uncovered mass executions of Christians in Denmark. Both blocs were planning military intervention. Waystone didnât stop at these revelations. She also proved that the intel on both sides had been forged by Sadie Schrubb, the vehemently Christian arms manufacturer who had bought most of the US Senate.
As both sides of the globe weighed the nuclear option, The Foolish Weaver went viral in influenzal proportions. Tens of millions risked arrest by spreading the literature, and hundreds of millions found that they were not alone in their doubts about the religious nature of their countries.
The counterculture was soon ravenous, champing at the bit. The nonreligious majority was growing tired of the prospect of nuclear war. But the majority had little say. The orthodox elite that ran the country went on and instituted a draft to gather warriors of God.
For many that was the last straw. With nowhere to run from the draft, draft centers, many located in churches, were burned and bombed. When the masses were merciful, that is. When they were less so, the masters were burned alive or crucified backward, reminding a few historically savvy individuals of the Geki couple.
The revolution marked the end of the World Cold War. It quickly inspired an old world counterpart and all religion was banned for good. That inspired the less peaceful second Catholic uprising and a great number of similar events. What companies had bought up the governments of the world, as they began organizing into GAUNE and UNEGA, pursued means of controlling the uprisings while allowing religious extremists to believe they were still forces to be reckoned with, to believe they still had a say so long as they remained nonviolent.
They had to scare the religious groups into believing there was a force that could easily incinerate them all on a whim but did not. A force that allowed them to act within reason to gather and exercise the most extreme of individuals while maintaining control. Above all, a new force that could infiltrate any deviant group to frighten the holy hell out of them when they grew out of hand.
No such force had scared the religious community so since the Geki couple. Lacking any real creativity, the companies in power over the regions with the worst religious rumblings elected to resurrect the Geki.
With a few modifications of course. Instead of Molotov cocktails, Zaibatsu donated their experimental flame implants. Instead of plain black cloaks, Google donated their displacement satellites and the displacement fabric to warp across the air inside them. Pfizer donated a med chamber and Puma County donated land for a base of operations, coincidentally only seven kilometers from Andrew and Jessica Gekiâs old house. The icing on the cake came from RAND: the Farnesene Pulse.
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