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The Evolution War

Page history last edited by 1nfinite zer0 15 years, 3 months ago

The Shashnimyn race despite all of its advancements, magicks and learning was still plagued by giant predators and magical diseases.  This continual pressure was more or less accepted, but as the nations developed and populations grew, these threats became more prevalent than traditionally.  Advances in agriculture and medicine meant more offspring were surviving, and the future of this change was culturally discussed.

 

The intentional evolution of the shashnimyn race was consciously chosen for hopes of a better future. the race was not free from all burdnes of the planet, despite their advancement. people who favoured their evolution for the sake of their children.  Some favoured the dance evolution of the race for their own ends (doesn't make sense, isn't it entirely an altruistic thing if it cannot be affected in the present generation?)

 

The major differences of life philosophy between those who favoured rapid accelerated evolution and those who did no split the race into opposing factions. Some villages would exile or kill the offspring of those who were not aged enough. After Others applied ;selection' against individuals that did not live up to a certain standard. After many decades of extreme tension between the 'breed as you will' and the 'wait, for our children' philosophies a war started. The communities who had chosen to accelerate the selection pressure started an olympic games to prove how their strategy was already working. ((an argument for the side who chose to breed as they desired was the look of the others committing a sort of genocide. which i guess it was, but it was accepted among all within their groups, or they ejected those who did not follow it. what is just but those mores agreed upon by the group?)

 

The creation of a competitive Olympics games to find the "best" individual was an affront to a basic Shashnimyn life philosophy and religion/bekllief that "All are equal. Disabilitieis can be balanced by great, if unseen, strength." By presuming to call themselves superior, they had cahllenged all those who did not follow their philosophy to a challenge/duel.

 

Fights broke out constantly in cities, via (where there was a mixed pack of views) villages spoiled their neighbour's crops, fist led to sword until there was no one not involved. The war was never a full scale massacre, or open battle. It was more guerilla and fought through constant smaller fights.

 

villages aligned with their neighbours or were destroyed. (Is there a desire to tie this war to the curent state of terrorism and dicsuss an iminent war? is that a way to sully the name of evolution?) Eventually, there were tow new nations formed. Red for the burning blood of the free. White for the quest for the ideal that they aspired to. Each had a fanatical hatred for the other despite being almost genetically identical. With organizationinto nations came greedy quests for power and domination over the opnents. (a potential theme: a return to the old code, going back to the set of guidlines layed out for them in previous times. but constantly checking on these views. but wars and violence are always coountered by the compassion and goodill of the old laws.) The citizens blindly followed the maniacl leaders as a result of this irrational hate. This hate was helped along by those in power, misinforming the public, using propaganda to use the people for their own purposes. The people did not rise up against their leaders and question if it was right, they went along with their anger and their fear. (natuarally, there were those qho questionned it. there waays are. these were few in number and did not get organized at this event in hisotry.)

 

The White soon found that their populations were shrinking; less from the deaths in the conflicts, but as a result of decreased birth rate. The rules of the older ones breeding seemed to mean fewer births. A campaign for all aged or powerful individuals (physically or mentall, never socially since that was not seen to have much genetic releavance and was too easy for power to be corrupted. (see here! sthe morals of the populations still persist and don't let them get away with all the bads things, even if this war got outt of hand)) to breed as much as they could. Through the veil of fanaticism the people of the White nation had so many children that they could not care or feed for them all. By mandate and a fixation towards their goal, many of the children were all but ignored soon after their infancy. Entire litters died in the wilderness as they explored their childhood wanderings. As disgusting as it may be, this porduced a favourable outcome. The numbers of individuals making it to adulthood increased by sheer nubmers of individuals starting to get their. (Although widespread famine happened for a little while, once the innocents were counted out of the 'to feed' list, the shashnimyn were making a beter use of their resources. Areas iwth less hospitable surrounding areas had to balance with feeding these innocents earlier than those in fertile areas. this happened overtime)

 

 


 

 

(So, from a human perspective, it may not seem evident why so much of the population condoned killing theirown kind when the race is an otherwise peaceful an honourable species. it had to do with risk versus reward. if the individual is only a small part of the greater whole, then does not the greater whole have more rights? what are the rights of a species? is it fair to drive them to extinction? no, of course not. that would be greedy, selfish and creul; if it were against another species. If you were driving yourself extinct, wekll that would just be plain stupid. Unfortunately, it is too hard to predict the trajectory of evolution into the future. Many saw that the increases in technology and magicks had made the myn dependent upon their complicated settlements and vulnerable if they were alone in the wilderness with nothing. This was not the original condition of the Shashnimyn, they were warriors of the desert and jungle, able to evade and predate on larger and more powerful beasts. But it would not do to return to savagry. The goal was to increase the robustness of the race by a form of artificial selection. The breeder guilds of the race wqere very experienced and had tracked experiments of controlled evolution in all manner of plants and creatures. To have specific traits selected for in the race would be a very difficult thing to do, because the population had little chance for isolation (and hence genetic drift) so the only reasonable way to aid evolution was to increase the selection pressure on individuals. This was intitially done in the manner of killing, or active selection. (note for after effects of the war. a concession, selection is still increased, but this is due to the laissez-faire attitudes towards the very youong shashnanii. they are allowed to wander away into the forest, or not cared for as much. the repoducteive rates actually ahve increased since historical ratem, but the selection is great against the youngins. less make it to breeding age. it is also encouraged not to breed until much later in life, but that is not as strictly enforeced as it was in times before and during the war).

 

 

 


Relevant links

Three World Wars

Evolution

Eugenics

World Design

 

 

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