The Civilisation of the MachTungri – A modified Fantasia AAR
Warning: This AAR is utterly unhistorical and is based upon a different history (and set of historical facts) than our own. Please feel free to enjoy it despite this
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FOREWORD
When one looks back upon history and is faced with the lives of others and the paths they chose, one can always be pushed to wonder how the world was, and what brought the people to live as they did. The information we have is brief and obviously altered through the mouths and writings of many. This of course affects the way we see history, people, events, and even morals. The information collected is thus never written by two sides, as all biographers were (despite some effort not to be or not to seem,) impassive.
History is not always written by the people who are right. It is merely a recollection of incidents recorded by those who are left, usually those who emerge victorious. Despite this lack of concrete evidence, today’s historians can still work out an approximate summary of what happened in the past via the study of ancient writings and comparisons thereof. What we are interested in happened a long time ago. Because of this, we can only give approximate facts derived by the writings of the literate few.
However, to better understand what happened in this time, as well as the reasons for which they happened, we must go further back in history, to a time of European political unity and advanced technology. We must travel all the way back to around 100 A.D. The Roman Empire at its peak, Latin is the predominant tongue, although regional derivations thereof combined with ancient speech makes for the creation of new languages. Literature, Architecture, Army formation and other useful aspects of the Roman lifestyle showers the people like the rain on a spring day: The resistance is weak in comparison with the ominous Roman authority. However, over time the powerful empire crumbles, victim to corruption, citizen upheaval, conscript decadence, and barbarian incursions. [It is believed that] in the year 365 A.D. Rome falls, and some fifty years later Constantinople follows cue.
It is here that the most fundamental basis for our investigation is formed. The ensuing Dark Age quickly dampens the light for the whole of Europe and the rest of the world (now solitary and divided, having lost contact with the only real civilisation - Rome). Europe loses valuable ancient manuscripts as the Mongols raid the territories (circa 800 A.D. they level Rome and 850 they pillage Lugdunum – Paris). However, the separate tribes are soon united to oust the Mongol invaders, and by 1000 A.D. the Mongol culture is only an afterthought, remaining prevalent in only the most remote eastern reaches of the continent.
Somehow, after their victory against their common enemy, the European tribes seem to scatter once more, to unprecedented levels of self-confinement. Muslims in North Africa are the most advanced in the world in 900 A.D., but much like the Roman Empire, a sudden increase in corruption and rebel activity leads to the disintegration of great lands such as Persia (already weakened by the Huns) and Ethiopia (Today’s Abyssinia). In the Far East, the Mongols remain a great pillaging threat, preventing the development of any civilisation in the area. They remain the predominant oppressors until around 1350, when a small tribe called China unites with its neighbours to expel the intruders. China becomes the predominant power of the region for centuries after this. The Americas remain (as they always were) an empty land of scattered entities and ideals.
But the part that interests us the most is of course Europe, the cradle of civilisation. During the Roman conquests the Tungri (inhabitants of Tongeren, present-day Netherlands) presented strong resistance to the assimilation into the Latin empire. Having fought many glorious battles with outstanding victories, they were finally submitted to Roman rule in 23 B.C. under the great Augustus Caesar. However suppressed their culture, it survived underground for centuries, until finally resurfacing with Rome’s fall. The Tungri never ventured far out of their homelands, and remained but another tribe for over one thousand years.
The day this changed, our story begins.
Warning: This AAR is utterly unhistorical and is based upon a different history (and set of historical facts) than our own. Please feel free to enjoy it despite this
.FOREWORD
When one looks back upon history and is faced with the lives of others and the paths they chose, one can always be pushed to wonder how the world was, and what brought the people to live as they did. The information we have is brief and obviously altered through the mouths and writings of many. This of course affects the way we see history, people, events, and even morals. The information collected is thus never written by two sides, as all biographers were (despite some effort not to be or not to seem,) impassive.
History is not always written by the people who are right. It is merely a recollection of incidents recorded by those who are left, usually those who emerge victorious. Despite this lack of concrete evidence, today’s historians can still work out an approximate summary of what happened in the past via the study of ancient writings and comparisons thereof. What we are interested in happened a long time ago. Because of this, we can only give approximate facts derived by the writings of the literate few.
However, to better understand what happened in this time, as well as the reasons for which they happened, we must go further back in history, to a time of European political unity and advanced technology. We must travel all the way back to around 100 A.D. The Roman Empire at its peak, Latin is the predominant tongue, although regional derivations thereof combined with ancient speech makes for the creation of new languages. Literature, Architecture, Army formation and other useful aspects of the Roman lifestyle showers the people like the rain on a spring day: The resistance is weak in comparison with the ominous Roman authority. However, over time the powerful empire crumbles, victim to corruption, citizen upheaval, conscript decadence, and barbarian incursions. [It is believed that] in the year 365 A.D. Rome falls, and some fifty years later Constantinople follows cue.
It is here that the most fundamental basis for our investigation is formed. The ensuing Dark Age quickly dampens the light for the whole of Europe and the rest of the world (now solitary and divided, having lost contact with the only real civilisation - Rome). Europe loses valuable ancient manuscripts as the Mongols raid the territories (circa 800 A.D. they level Rome and 850 they pillage Lugdunum – Paris). However, the separate tribes are soon united to oust the Mongol invaders, and by 1000 A.D. the Mongol culture is only an afterthought, remaining prevalent in only the most remote eastern reaches of the continent.
Somehow, after their victory against their common enemy, the European tribes seem to scatter once more, to unprecedented levels of self-confinement. Muslims in North Africa are the most advanced in the world in 900 A.D., but much like the Roman Empire, a sudden increase in corruption and rebel activity leads to the disintegration of great lands such as Persia (already weakened by the Huns) and Ethiopia (Today’s Abyssinia). In the Far East, the Mongols remain a great pillaging threat, preventing the development of any civilisation in the area. They remain the predominant oppressors until around 1350, when a small tribe called China unites with its neighbours to expel the intruders. China becomes the predominant power of the region for centuries after this. The Americas remain (as they always were) an empty land of scattered entities and ideals.
But the part that interests us the most is of course Europe, the cradle of civilisation. During the Roman conquests the Tungri (inhabitants of Tongeren, present-day Netherlands) presented strong resistance to the assimilation into the Latin empire. Having fought many glorious battles with outstanding victories, they were finally submitted to Roman rule in 23 B.C. under the great Augustus Caesar. However suppressed their culture, it survived underground for centuries, until finally resurfacing with Rome’s fall. The Tungri never ventured far out of their homelands, and remained but another tribe for over one thousand years.
The day this changed, our story begins.
