TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Captain Van Helm Among the Hypee, Part 1
- Captain Van Helm Among the Hypee, Part 2
- Captain Van Helm Among the Hypee, Part 3
- Captain Van Helm Among the Hypee, Part 4
- Captain Van Helm Among the Hypee, Part 5
- Captain Van Helm Among the Hypee, Part 6
- TBD
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Introduction & Background
"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
Proverbs 16:18
"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
Proverbs 16:18
Perhaps the Yukon Empire was always destined to collapse, but not even the most ardent and bloodthirsty of its enemies ever wished for the Fall. On that horrible day, more than a century ago, a piece of the Heavens was sent crashing to Earth to shatter the bloated and corrupted edifice that the Yukon Empire had become. The island of Yukon was struck directly and utterly destroyed, broken in two by the fury of a wrathful God. Other impacts preceded and followed this climatic centerpiece of destruction, forming a long band running across the northern hemisphere of the region and plunging the region in a long winter. This was the Fall, the moment when the old world finally received the judgement that it had earned. But the Fall was merely the beginning of the False Tribulation.
Civilization, so long maintained by the Yukons, broke down. Even in areas not directly affected by the Fall, the damage it wrought on the climate led to crop failures and food shortages. Nations long oppressed by the Yukons seized the moment to cast off their shackles and soon even once-loyal provinces of the empire were in revolt. Diseases, some deliberately spread by the last Yukon Emperor in a bloody-minded attempt to restore the old order to simply bring humanity down with the empire, ran rampant. In many parts of the world, hungry people turned on one another and committed one of the ultimate sins: cannibalism, consuming the flesh of another human. Civilization shrank back to small pockets of light surrounded by darkness and the cold quiet of the grave.
Out of the chaos of the False Tribulation, new powers arose. Parina claims the mantle of successor to the Yukon Empire. The Confederacy of Atlantian Dominions, independent after centuries as a part of the core territories of the Yukon Empire, seeks to establish a pious nation worthy of being the site of Christ’s return. The Holy Empire of Freiderichsland, the home of the Catholic Pope and many bickering nobles, looks to unify and reach heights of power that were denied to it during the reign of the Yukons.
Many lands remain shrouded in the darkness of the Fall and the False Tribulation. These Unorganized Territories are home to petty kings, minor warlords, outposts of civilized peoples, and man-eating savages. As the new empires expand, the terra nullius begins to fill up…