RedditorLyceriushas beenplaying the same save gameof Civilization II for ten year , resulting in an awesomely dystopic swampy nuclear - irradiated barren in which warfare has lambast unrelentingly for a staggering 1,700 years . And now , inspired by this freakish simulated Earth , a number of other Redditors have taken it upon themselves to write their own literary rendering of the blossom forth events .
As Kotaku’sKate Cox report last hebdomad , the first 2,000 age of Lycerius ’s reign went more or less like a Civ game does , fulfill with evolving engineering , big and better armies , expansion , geographic expedition , resource - gathering , and all the eternal sleep .
https://kotaku.com/ten-years-of-civ-ii-lock-the-world-in-perpetual-war-5917693
But now , as the biz makes its way through the 40th century A.D. , the world has regressed into what the drug user has described as a “ hellish nightmare of hurt and devastation . ” He describes the situation :
The ice cap have run over 20 times ( somehow ) due primarily to the many atomic wars . As a termination , every inch of soil in the man that is n’t a mountain is inundated swampland land , useless to land . Most of which is irradiate anyway .
Only 3 super monolithic nations are leave . The Celts ( me ) , The Vikings , And the Americans . Between the three of us , we have stamp down all the other nations that have ever existed and assimilate them into our several empires .
You ’ve discover of the 100 year war ? Try the 1700 yr warfare . The three remaining nation have been lock in an perpetual expiry conflict for almost 2000 years . Peace seems to be impossible . Every fourth dimension a cease fire is signed , the Vikings will surprise attack me or the Americans the very next twist , often with nuclear weapons . Even when the U.N forces a peace treaty . So I can only wear that peace will come only when they ’re pass over out . It is this that perpetuates the warfare advert infinitum .
If that was n’t cool enough , a numeral of Redditors have given this scenario the literary discussion it deserves – and they ’re proving to be just as inventive and thinker - neutering as the biz itself .
Take an excerpt fromanimusvoxx‘s part :
My lords , I fear the future tense bring nothing but more horror and wretchedness . The Neo - Vikings have taken to plundering throughout our southern borders . Rebellion seethes like a fly ball - blown combat injury within the Capital . Our glorious leader lies ill , and his successor game against each other like connive lady of the house . News of more desertion at the front arrive daily , and our lacuna are eat up . I pray you , end this war : over - indite the save - game , and begin anew .
EliteKill‘s vision is downright cinematic :
It seemed like just another day in this never - ending war . The last few historian go out ( who needs history now , really ) harmonize that it has been going on for at least 1500 years , but their estimates depart . Why does it count , anyway . The loss leader of the remaining superpowers are locked in this pointless struggle , with no breakthrough . I have no idea how the Vikings keep being so logical over such a long time , but the Communists have had the same family ( and precept ) in power ever since the war began and over here in America we ’ve hook up our president to a computer so he could rule forever . What a brilliant plan that was … Each nation is powerful just enough so neither can fall . Every time a metropolis is capture , it is take the next day . When roads are work up so as to aid dry up the swamps , they are like a shot destroyed . The only fashion to reconstruct our Earth is for someone to win , but that wo n’t happen . At least , that ’s what I mean until now .
Our forces took another city by dawn . Nothing was special about it , apart from the fact that it was the first sentence it has been under American ascendancy since the warfare begin . It ’s not that it was to a great extent guarded , only it was never deemed authoritative enough for capture . As a part of our young military “ scheme ” , we had to enamor it for the slight chance that an denizen over there could have any sort of solution to the famine . We did n’t find a valet , but we commence the result alright .
And then there ’s my favorite fromlordmalifico :
= = OUTGOING
The following was found in the ruins of an ancient Gaelic city , in date to the year 2987 . The text was strip and continue by the National Center for the Preservation of the Revolution , based in Cardiff . Controversial expert Áedan Byrne was hired on to look into the nature of the text , and his rough translation is as follows .
THE GREAT STRUGGLE CONTINUES !
Our brothers and sisters fight on the front lines , our heroic civic corps construct roads large than anything that survive before ! potent weapons of steel and flame churn victory for our revolution , crushing the petulant Vikings and the turned - souled Americans ! view as they struggle to rebuild their ruin and farmlands !
Our warfare is as patrimonial as it is eonian ! Our father ’s grandfathers marched in American country , uniting the common worker and man under a Celtic flag ! Our workers are the envy of all craftsman in the diseased Viking swamps !
They challenge us with zealotry and theocracy ! We defeat them with artillery of wipeout and incinerate their armies into the Earth ! We have outgrown the simple belief systems of Gods and cherished the plight of the coarse mankind in our age of strife and dismay !
Be certain to hit thefull Reddit screw thread , as there ’s lots more .
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