Flashia In A New World

Hello New, Brave World

[This is the (3nd) rewrite of Prologue with the writing brought up to current standard-ish and the chapter expanded a little bit

Formerly known as 'New, Chaotic Start']

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A soldier watches the wyverns return from their mission above the town that they had just retook as he joins a few others in carrying the stretcher. Taking their place as they leave for East was a pair of dark-colored roaring monsters. Small compared to their reptilian counterparts, but mighty birds of steel as their reports and records have proven.

It's a stark contrast reminding him of the past. Several months ago, it would have been his old but trusty musket that accompanied him, not the battle rifle that reigned supreme in every combat situation he was in. He would have been wearing the sky blue uniform that represented his country, not the depressing green that blends into the flora better. Same goes for his issued shako which was switched out for a lower-profile steel pot, battered but somehow held on against a magi-cannon attack a while ago, the same one that got the guy on this stretcher.

"W-Wacht..." (W-Wait...) the wounded man looks to the left of his group "Hij leeft nog!" (He's still alive!)

The WIA man immediately grabbed his rifle, aimed at a bleeding rebel crawling to a gun and pulled the trigger with a finger of his left hand 3 times, then 4. He put his rifle back on his lap afterwards.

As they continued at the same pace as before, the soldier sighed and shook his head in amusement.

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Flashia has been through a lot. The country underwent a civil war to its South-Western regions, resulting in some states declaring independence and the collapse of the First Federal Republic, and then, dragged into a regional war with Hatemea*.

It has fought countless of battles in what can be seen as two of the deadliest wars unleashed on the continent of Crafare, only surpassed by the mass destruction of the Capital-Commune War where the Cold War had gone hot. It seen its Federal Republic collapse once on both economical and political grounds. It had lost many of its sons and daughters.

It has gone through many strifes in its recent memories, but nonetheless, it has recovered. With the end of the Reunification War, the states that once seceded from Flashia would eventually reunite with the federation, mainly due to economic, security and defense issues.

Together, they would rebuild from the ravages of what was left of the wars whilst also reorganizing and modernizing its forces so that the recent tramautic memories shall not repeat, at least that is the idea.

In retrospective, the future is looking brighter for them, but Flashia will soon have a shock of their life not seen after the Capital-Commune War that caused the fall of the First Federal Republic, in a certain event that should have been impossible.

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Barminde, Tilenogtyve, 22/3/2017
"Good morning Gade" Simon Thomasen greeted a guard by the his residency's front door.

"Morning Mr. President" replied the aforementioned guard "I see that you're ready for the day?"

"Of course I am, I still have a year left on this term after all"

"Right..."

The Flash president would then start walking to the front gate where his commute awaits him. Just as he's on his way to his car however, he overheard a pair of guards' conversation

"...I couldn't hear anything on the radio but static! Even turning the knob wouldn't work for whatever reason"

"Same here, when I turned on the TV this morning, the next thing I knew is that none of the channel seems to be up and running..."