A Future Butchered Episode 101

Episode 101, titled 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 Andorra. France supported the Andorran troops, resulting in Catalonia losing 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 Craft0Video.

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, which he took from a Korean Central Television broadcast.

Release
"From Midyear" was released on geracruzcolusa's personal YouTube channel on 5 June 2017. He unlisted the video on 16 February 2018 and later re-released the episode on his new mapping channel on 12 August 2018.

Transcript
2017-06-05: Serbia: Welcome to A Future Butchered, created by geracruzcolusa, better known as ChizzleDonkey.

2017-06-05: Slovenia: Please don't get offended or upset about what happens here. Odds are no one else cares.

2017-06-05: Alsatian rebels: We wish to join the Fatherland!

2017-06-06: France: No! I won you fair and square 99 years ago!

2017-06-07: Alsatian rebels: This means war!

2017-06-08: Germany: Yeah!

2017-06-09: France: Uh-oh...

2017-06-17: France: OK YOU WIN STOP

2017-06-23: Germany: I might as well rebuild the Empire! Who's with me?

2017-06-24: Austria and five others: We are!

2017-06-25: Czechia and four others: Absoloutely not!

2017-07-03: Czechia: I surrender!

2017-07-05: Germany: The war is won!

2017-07-06: Germany: A new name to represent my empire status wouldn't harm!

2017-07-07: Austria: Italy, the people of Tyrol wish to join me.

2017-07-08: Italy: Got it.

2017-07-11: Portugal: Spain! Release you autonomous nations at once!

2017-07-12: Spain: We'll see about that...

2017-08-03: United Kingdom: Aaagh

2017-08-07: Serbia: I will unite the entire Balkans!

2017-08-26: Austria: The Danube's great and all, but a coast would be great!

2017-09-22: Germaximus: My Germanic brothers! Who will join me?

2017-09-23: Austria and four others: We will!

2017-09-24: Belgium: We'll see about that.

2017-10-01: Denmark and four others: As for us, we're good.

2017-10-02: Wales: Let's form a Celtic Union!

2017-10-03: Cornwall and two others: Yeah!

2017-10-05: Catalonia: Time to take Andorra!

2017-10-06: France: We'll see about that...

2017-10-12: Catalonia: I surreder!

2017-10-14: Bulgaria: I will annex the FYROM!

2017-10-15: Greece: No, I will!

2017-11-04: France: I must re-establish my power! I will take my anger out on... Italy!

2017-12-31: Albania: Wow, look at the time! The episode is over!

2017-12-31: Vojvodina: Each of these episodes will cover one year.

2017-12-31: Algeria: There may be episodes dedicated to periods under or over a year.

2017-12-31: Iceland: This episode was only shorter because it started in the middle of the year.

2017-12-31: Germaximus: We'll see you in the next episode, covering all of 2018!