A Future Butchered Episode 101

"From Midyear" is the pilot episode of the mapping series A Future Butchered. The episode follows the nations of Europe, watching as they change from 5 June 2017 to 31 December 2017.

The episode was created entirely by geracruzcolusa in the span of several hours.

Events
The episode starts on 5 June 2017 with an introduction from Serbia and Slovenia. After the introduction, Alsatian rebels demand to be intregrated into Germany, leading to the Alsatian War. This lead directly to the War of Empire, led by Germany to regain its old land. It won and became Germaximus.

On 9 July 2017, Italy granted South Tyrol to Austria. Four days later, Portugal declared war on Spain to liberate its autonomous territories. Portugal won this 13-day long war, and Spain split into 10 different nations, and the North African cities were given to Morocco.

The United Kingdom also split into different nations. On 4 August 2017, the United Kingdom collapsed. It was split into four nations and its lands were split between Cyprus, Denmark, France and Ireland.

Serbia declared a war on all of the Balkan nations to unite all of the Balkans on 9 August 2017. This war was lost on 23 August 2017, and Serbia's land was split between the surrounding nations and Vojvodina became independent. In addition to this war, Austria declared war on Slovenia and Croatia to gain an Adriatic coastline. This war resulted in the annexation of the Istra county and all of Slovenia.

Germaximus proposed a unification of the Germanic nations on 22 September 2017. Austria, England, Flemish rebels and the Netherlands wished to. The Flemish rebels started a civil war in Belgium, which they won. Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries did not choose to join Germaximus. Along with this unification, the Celtic Union was formed on 4 October 2017.

On 7 October 2017, Catalonia declared war on the war. Days later, Bulgaria and Greece independently declared war on Macedonia. They split the nation after the war.

The episode ends with France declaring war on Italy on 4 November 2017 to regain its glory. The war continue into the next episode.

On 31 December 2017, Albania, Vojvodina, Algeria, Iceland and Germaximus explain the periods of time each episode will cover.

Production
"From Midyear" was created on 5 June 2017 in the span of a few hours. It was created entirely by geracruzcolusa.

The episode displays fonts in Arial. Speech generally has a font size of 36. The map used in the episode is a modified version of "Europe with borders (1-pixelated borders) by Craft)Video.

Music
"From Midyear" features three different songs. The first and second songs in the episode were creaed by geracruzcolusa himself using Finale NotePad 2012. The last song in the episode is a North Korean song called "Cheerful Dance Music."

Release
"From Midyear" was released on geracruzcolusa's new YouTube channel on 5 June 2017.

Transcript
5 June 2017: Serbia: Welcome to A Future Butchered, created by geracruzcolusa, better known as ChizzleDonkey.

5 June 2017: Slovenia: Please don't get offended or upset about what happens here. Odds are no one else cares.

5 June 2017: Alsatian rebels: We wish to join the Fatherland!

6 June 2017: France: No! I won you fair and square 99 years ago!

7 June 2017: Alsatian rebels: This means war!

8 June 2017: Germany: Yeah!

9 June 2017: France: Uh-oh...

17 June 2017: France: OK YOU WIN STOP

23 June 2017: Germany: I might as well rebuild the Empire! Who's with me?

24 June 2017: Austria and five others : We are!

25 June 2017: Czechia and four others : Absoloutely not!

3 July 2017: Czechia: I surrender!

5 July 2017: Germany: The war is won!

6 July 2017: Germany: A new name to represent my empire status wouldn't harm!

7 July 2017: Austria: Italy, the people of Tyrol wish to join me.

8 July 2017: Italy: Got it.

11 July 2017: Portugal: Spain! Release you autonomous nations at once!

12 July 2017: Spain: We'll see about that...

3 August 2017: United Kingdom: Aaagh

7 August 2017: Serbia: I will unite the entire Balkans!

26 August 2017: Austria: The Danube's great and all, but a coast would be great!

22 September 2017: Germaximus: My Germanic brothers! Who will join me?

23 September 2017: Austria and four others : We will!

24 September 2017: Belgium: We'll see about that.

1 October 2017: Denmark and four others : As for us, we're good.

2 October 2017: Wales: Let's form a Celtic Union!

3 October 2017: Cornwall and two others : Yeah!

5 October 2017: Catalonia: Time to take Andorra!

6 October 2017: France: We'll see about that...

12 October 2017: Catalonia: I surrender!

14 October 2017: Bulgaria: I will annex the FYROM!

15 October 2017: Greece: No, I will!

4 November 2017: France: I must re-establish my power! I will take my anger out on... Italy!

31 December 2017: Albania: Wow, look at the time! The episode is over!

31 December 2017: Vojvodina: Each of these episodes will cover one year.

31 December 2017: Algeria: There may be episodes dedicated to periods under or over a year.

31 December 2017: Iceland: This episode was only shorter because it started in the middle of the year.

31 December 2017: Germaximus: We'll see you in the next episode, covering all of 2018!