Thread:Monsoonjr99/@comment-26044830-20170825232201/@comment-26044830-20170908234817

525 FE | 147 GFE

The "Fundamental Mana Physics and Capabilities" is published nationally on the United Provinces on late 512 as to affirm that mana or magic itself can be used with full destructive force (including ether trees) if it is enriched enough (through the use of stockpiles being stacked up for about over 200 years) to destroy a city altogether in one blow without having to rely on mages to build up the strength of magic but it would also need to have some sort of force to protect itself from being deflected through magic means from them (for SCCCCIEEEEENCE well magic is kinda like an entity or something but i bet its gonna hate me now and this book is potentially gonna be stolen but i would do it for arms race). This led to the formation of the Constantine Project, to build up the first set of mana weapons of destruction at large scale (similar to nuclear weapons in OTL). Then suddenly the first test of a mana bomb underground on 514 was then announced by the government "so that the southerners would need to strengthen themselves before even thinking of fighting with them" then building up at least 4 more to conduct further tests for the 510s. If they ever develop similar weapons, they will also build more than them, leading up to an arms race and a potential nuclear war.

However due to a current war against one nation in the local region, the insane elector Epharitsa signed an executive order to build 20 more throughout the 520s and prepared mana bombs to destroy 15 cities out of 20 bombs constructed and using 5 as a fail safe measure. Epharitsa threatens Wrathyrians not to intervene in their invasion or they will be destroyed by mana bombs using aerial units (dragons/wyverns are obsolete still) - showing an example to the invasion even if there is a so-called treaty to protect the coastline. Killing over an estimate of some ten millions or so within 2 ether tree cycles, many are being revived as the undead under direct ruling of Epharitsa through undead spells upon invasion, with a success rate of 12.2% in long-term would survive within few weeks but 3.4% for 15 year lifespan and 0.2% for about 100 years. Memories and links to their homeland are wiped slowly through experimental amnestics as alchemy is transitioning to chemistry over the early 6th century, along with full brainwashing techniques for the undead not to defect (they are mindless anyway)

The GUP steered towards authoritarianism even further and suppressed radio, television (still in black-and-white) and even every single press that would be possible in the state by the start of 520 (along with a state of emergency declared so that Epharitsa won't likely lose the government of GUP to the moderate Gargoyle First when he dies) - becoming a radicalised far-right state with racial tiers being established in an order on 522 with the southerner natives as undesirables/untouchables and livestock while having gargoyles and humans live on a first class citizenship. In order their technology shall not be stolen, a bomb would be detonated in the area where mana bombs are researched to erase any technology (all vaults are in that area). Virtually it is impossible to defuse it once someone tries to infiltrate the area.

After finishing off the annexation of the Gnoxi homelands from the Ghallian EMpire, a treaty was conducted and as the Gnoxi don't touch a lot of resources, the GUP began uncovering more materials to build such nuclear shelters for fail safes and even something a lot worse than mana bombs... Well without having to rely on magic and abusing it as many Mage Movement revolutionaries underground in some parts of GUP feared that this would open up a dimension into realspace where magic purely exists and can engulf half of the region it is in, including 70% of the territory of the GUP and about 25% in the other continent.