Gaddr’s Shatter Mod
Historians agree the modern age began not with unity, but with collapse.
The Great Revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries — American, French, Haitian, and others — spread ideals of liberty and self-rule like wildfire. But instead of birthing stable nation-states, they burned down the foundations of empire without putting anything secure in their place.
In North America, the United States fractured within a generation. Disputes over slavery, religion, territory, and governance caused secession after secession until the continent became a patchwork of republics, theocracies, and military states. Canada, never fully consolidated under Britain, drifted into its own regional blocs.
In South America, independence movements succeeded early but unity failed. Brazil shattered into provinces, Argentina never coalesced, and indigenous nations like the Mapuche held their ground instead of being conquered.
In Europe, Napoleon’s meteoric rise burned the old monarchies but his fall left no clear successor. The Congress of Vienna collapsed into endless partitions, and “national unifications” like Germany and Italy never succeeded. Dozens of mid-sized states compete instead of empires.
In Africa, the attempted colonial conquests faltered. Early expeditions collapsed from disease, resistance, and rivalries back home. Instead, African polities — both old kingdoms and newly emerged federations — expanded into the vacuum, holding the continent against European encroachment.
In Asia, the Qing dynasty crumbled half a century early, unable to resist internal strife and foreign gunboats. The “Century of Warlords” began, dividing China into competing provinces. Meanwhile, Siberia broke from St. Petersburg and Manchuria rose as its own force.
The result: no great powers, only hundreds of smaller ones. The world economy still industrializes, but without clear hegemons — trade is chaotic, borders fluid, and alliances temporary.
Historians call it The Shattered Century — an age where the fate of the world lies not in empires, but in the countless hands of states, republics, tribes, and kingdoms scrambling to survive and expand.
TL;DR WTF DOES THIS MOD DO? It balkanizes the whole world, sets everyone’s tech level to 4, and set’s the start date to 1736 and the end date to 2036.
