Wohendum-Bluu
When Blue Just Isn't Quite Blue Enough
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Imagine a situation where, due to some unknown reason, technology as we know it, suddenly failed. I mean this as in electricity....just stopped being electrical. No power. No lights. No working cars. No modern transportation. No internet. Imagine a modern world just as it is now, but suddenly everything goes dark, and remains that way forever. Now, imagine the chaos that follows. The chaos that follows however is irrelevant to my question, but is still something to keep in mind.
Now, the United States as we know it, as well as most current modern day countries would instantaneously change in the way they function. Not overnight sure, but as years passed by, decades, and then a century or two, or more, today's political world would be nothing like what it would become. Of course, every-day life would change too. With no electricity, quite a few things that are normal now, would be non-existent then. Certains foods, drinks, toys, weapons, just a few mentionable things, would vanish because they either can't be made without the electricity to run the factories, or the necessary transportation to bring them here wouldn't exist any longer.
Some of this would be replaced by other means, whether that be human-powered caravans or whether we would go back to horse-drawn carriages and carts. Idk. I imagine river and ocean/coastal trade would become much more important than it is today since nothing would arrive by planes any longer.
Anyway, now imagine the world.....200-300 years after it all went dark.
What kinds of countries, cultures, and such would be around? I for one expect that a lot of small petty-kings leading minor kingdoms would form after 50-60 years had passed. I think a mixture of Republics and Monarchies would form simultaneously, side-by-side, though few would be larger than a handful of counties until the inevitable periods of war, conquest, and consolidation began. As for the culture, idk.
Without electricity, there would be no guns, or what remained of them, ammo would soon enough dry out and something else long-range would have to replace it, though I suspect melee combat would make a comeback, though I'm not creative enough to imagine what form it would take. I'm positive cavalry would become a thing, though it would probably take some time before acceptable levels of horsebreeding spread, so I'd give that half a century up to a full century before that became a thing again. I doubt we would ever have another industrial revolution, simply because a lot of the materials and resources used to fuel the first one no longer exist in the necessary quantities any longer. So, I don't imagine warfare progressing beyond perhaps Pike & Shot level again.
However, lets consider that guns vanish as a weapon, and are never remade, since of course, as I mentioned, electricity never returns. What would warfare look like then? Honestly, I guess my real question is, what kind of warfare would be fought in this new post-modern dark age? It may not be relevant to the question but if it is, but imagine a mixture of Republics and Monarchies forming at once, (though for every Republic, there are 2 or 3 Monarchies)
So, what do you guys think? What would warfare be like in this post-modern dark age?
Now, the United States as we know it, as well as most current modern day countries would instantaneously change in the way they function. Not overnight sure, but as years passed by, decades, and then a century or two, or more, today's political world would be nothing like what it would become. Of course, every-day life would change too. With no electricity, quite a few things that are normal now, would be non-existent then. Certains foods, drinks, toys, weapons, just a few mentionable things, would vanish because they either can't be made without the electricity to run the factories, or the necessary transportation to bring them here wouldn't exist any longer.
Some of this would be replaced by other means, whether that be human-powered caravans or whether we would go back to horse-drawn carriages and carts. Idk. I imagine river and ocean/coastal trade would become much more important than it is today since nothing would arrive by planes any longer.
Anyway, now imagine the world.....200-300 years after it all went dark.
What kinds of countries, cultures, and such would be around? I for one expect that a lot of small petty-kings leading minor kingdoms would form after 50-60 years had passed. I think a mixture of Republics and Monarchies would form simultaneously, side-by-side, though few would be larger than a handful of counties until the inevitable periods of war, conquest, and consolidation began. As for the culture, idk.
Without electricity, there would be no guns, or what remained of them, ammo would soon enough dry out and something else long-range would have to replace it, though I suspect melee combat would make a comeback, though I'm not creative enough to imagine what form it would take. I'm positive cavalry would become a thing, though it would probably take some time before acceptable levels of horsebreeding spread, so I'd give that half a century up to a full century before that became a thing again. I doubt we would ever have another industrial revolution, simply because a lot of the materials and resources used to fuel the first one no longer exist in the necessary quantities any longer. So, I don't imagine warfare progressing beyond perhaps Pike & Shot level again.
However, lets consider that guns vanish as a weapon, and are never remade, since of course, as I mentioned, electricity never returns. What would warfare look like then? Honestly, I guess my real question is, what kind of warfare would be fought in this new post-modern dark age? It may not be relevant to the question but if it is, but imagine a mixture of Republics and Monarchies forming at once, (though for every Republic, there are 2 or 3 Monarchies)
So, what do you guys think? What would warfare be like in this post-modern dark age?
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