THE BIRTH OF WAR.

The End.

November the 7th, 1927...

It had been 9 years since the end of the great war, and after years of nonstop bloodshed since the beginning of the war to end all wars in 1914, the great powers of Europe are finally at peace... But the cost of millions of lives lost in the trenches, in the fields of Verdun, Passchendaele, and the Somme. All terrible battles where millions were lost on both sides. New machines of war, ever-shifting doctrines, and the rampant and ever-growing industrial machine have made prewar planning obsolete, as Generals from both sides struggled to fight a war in which had fundamentally changed, Generals who were far too blind as to the ever-shifting battlefield where lives were lost in meaningless bloodshed and horror.

In any other world, the Great war would have been the catastrophe the heroes are trying to avoid, where men were simply the meat in which to throw at the grinding battles being fought and the many running skirmishes or diseases that spread within the trenches.

However... Finally, after 4 years of endless trench warfare and fighting, the French, British, and commonwealth forces were finally broken and defeated by a last-ditch and desperate offensive by the German empire, which had led them to be victorious, managing to finally break through the enemy lines.
It was funny... It felt as though this war was going to be different, yet again, however, the Prussian military might reign supreme and victorious once again.

With the defeat of the Entente forces, Germany and her Allies have finally achieved their place in the sun and the German Empire, propelled into the spotlight of the World.

As for the Americans, they stayed neutral and never involved themselves in the war at all. By orders from the German military, submarine warfare had been postponed and than cancelled entirely, not wishing to get another power involved upon learning that American vessels were still prying the water.

Ultimately leading to the final victory of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Central powers.

...

(Greece.)

However the end of the great war is neither here nor there.

A survey team, as a part of an Expeditionary force funded and led by the scientific community had set camp around what they believed to be the sight of a long forgotten, bronze age city.

The men that made up this survey team were American, Austrian, German alongside guides from the local Greek countryside. Alongside a small but effective labour force, payed in full for their services of course.

The men around were all having their morning coffee, talking and chatting to one another.

It was in this calm atmosphere however that one of the workers, a local Greek man came over to the campsite and after entering one of the main tents said to the leading scientists and archaeologists inside
"Sirs! We have found something!"

Upon hearing this, the men inside the tent put down their cups of coffee or else finished their breakfast as quickly as possible before rushing out of the tent, but in an orderly manner before they walked towards the excavation sight.

As they got to it however, one of them, an American archeologist asked.
"Well, what is it that you found?"

The Greek man than said
"Yes sir... We found something, uh, some of your people and some translators are already down there!"