Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

The 21st century had to come in order for people to suddenly realise that they were hovering above a frightening gap in the global public sphere and that their institutions were completely obsolete. So, gradually, the once dominant states began to bestow—deliberately or not—part of their previously almighty powers, especially in the fields of foreign policy, international relations and arms, to a central, federal political organisation. They kept their historical memories, traditions and customs, language, legends and their domestic institutions, but they had now realised that in a future war there would be no winners and losers. They would either stick together, or all together they’d lose. They began to see who the true enemy was: the lack of strong and effective global institutions with the preventive mission to control all forms of conflict. They finally realised that what united people—their common biological fate and their shared responsibility for the maintenance of culture—was more important than what separated them.

The smaller nations were rather comfortable with their old social formations and had their own internal problems to worry about, so they were the last ones to adopt the new forms of organisation. The “Great Powers”, however, which had come to the fore in the 21st century, were struggling to understand one another. There was constant winning and complaints about the ways and criteria of the distribution of universal income. No one ever believed that their share was fair…

These “reactions” of the 21st century were meant to become the omen of the future “separatist movements”, which erupted repeatedly and were incited by the same “political nuclei” of the initial reactions! The requests were the same: demographic regulation and financial interests... For four whole centuries, sometimes the French or the Anglo-Saxons and other times the Germans or the Slavs revolted for “autonomy”, all with the same objective: to take the lead, from then on, in the historical course of mankind. “This fiery ordeal will pass,” they said, meaning the war they themselves had started. “Whatever happens is for your own good. The democrats are unable to give you the order that you need...”

And the economic wars were usually followed by armed conflicts. In the latter they only used the old conventional weapon since the separatists had no access to the “forbidden ones”, but this did not prevent those conflicts from evolving, several times until the 24th century, into real, extensive wars with mass casualties that threatened the universal federation with outright collapse every single time.

Eventually a bearable organisation was created, which, in its final form, lasted for many decades and paved the way for the end of prehistory, the new chronology, the coming of John Terring and the beginnings of the Eldere

. However, separatist attempts appeared in the first hundred years of the new chronology as well, that is, almost until the end of the 25th century, as Lain said, but they were too weak and doomed to failure. Mostly, as we explained, they were condemned in the minds of the people of the Eldere, who no longer tolerated political anarchy, coups and the dominance of the strongest. During the last one and a half centuries of their prehistory (20

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century for them) the migration waves had been reduced to a minimum and the population had been equally distributed around the world, not only in central and northern Europe any more, but on the other continents too. The Scandinavians had not yet been invited to descend to the deserted southern regions up to the Mediterranean Sea for the purpose of re-colonisation after the debacle they had suffered just 87 years before the definitive establishment of the Retsstat and the beginning of the “new chronology”. The white race had now conquered all five continents... And from the Semitic peoples, about a hundred and twenty million Israelis—now most of them Christianised—were at the helm both culturally and economically in southwest Asia, having developed there a high level of techno-culture, always with the Holy Lands as its centre.

Latino populations, mainly from South America, had colonised nearly all of the central areas of the African continent— you’d only see black people on very rare occasions. The warm now— thanks to the artificial air conditioning—Arctic regions were dominated by a brotherhood of Russians, Norwegians, Anglo-Saxons and other Baltic nations such as Finns, Poles, Danes and Canadians, while Antarctica—also characterised by a much more temperate climate thanks to human intervention—was colonised mainly by white South Africans (probably descendants of the Boers) and in the east by Australians and New Zealanders.