Editing Europe (section)

== History ==
Scion ended the Cold War and the Soviet Union fell some time after as well.<ref>[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14300958 WOG]</ref> The [[Wikipedia:Euro|Euro]] still ended up being the continent's main currency,<ref>The banks were on the lookout for suspicious activity, and a total of five hundred thousand Euros appearing in six checking accounts with typical balances of under a thousand Euros would be suspicious enough to merit a serious look. [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/interlude-21-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 21.x]]</ref> presumably still established by the [[Wikipedia:Maastricht Treaty|Maastricht Treaty]].

On September 16th 2000, [[Leviathan]] attacked Naples,<ref name="interlude24">Naples, September 16th, 2000.  Leviathan. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> given [[Siberian Incident|previous events]] The Protectorate put in a bad showing,<ref name=Fall/> leading to a bad day.<ref>[[Extermination 8.2]]</ref> Cities across the Western coastline suffered damage not just Naples, including all the way to Rome and the Vatican City micronation which was ~225 kilometers away (~140 miles).<ref name="Fall"> On September 17th, 2000 - Naples, Italy was attacked by Leviathan.  Suffering from the recent loss of Hero and the absence of Alexandria, the Protectorate core team put up a poor resistance, and damage was widespread, devastating Naples and the surrounding cities.  The extensive damage to the Vatican City may have played a role in [<nowiki/>[[Fallen|The nascent-Fallen]]] adopting a religious theme. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/12LtYsBEGUbngNPJRoAiL_QZyR_h__8hFO57bBVSDAAA/edit WD Organization: Fallen]</ref>

2 years later another major calamity happen when an "[[The Simurgh|angel]]" appeared in [[Switzerland]], which would have devastating consequences down the line.<ref name="17.5">“No,” Jess cut him off.  Her eyes were wide.  “Listen to me!  She showed up in this city in Switzerland.  First time.  Then after a while, she sings.  Starts throwing buildings around, puts a nuclear power plant in critical condition, spreads winds contaminated with radioactive dust, kills some heroes, drives people to riot and panic with her song.  Like, okay, that’s Endbringer standard, right?”<br/><br/>Krouse stayed still, waiting.  He could see Marissa and Oliver nodding.<br/><br/>“Six months later?  A promising scientist commits suicide.  Another person tries to blow up a TV station to get back at his girlfriend.  Superhero assassinates a prime minister and the next guy to be in charge of that country starts a war.  They were all there, when the Simurgh showed up.  The superhero’s friends said there was no sign, before his encounter with the Simurgh.  He just went downhill, after.  There was other stuff, stuff I don’t remember.  But it’s all bad.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/migration-17-5/ Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.5]]</ref><ref name="22.2">I was in Lausanne in two-thousand two through oh-three.  Fought a whole mess of ugly.  People that couldn’t be reasoned with, people who were hopeless, in the grand scheme of it.  Victims, as much as anyone else.”<br/><br/>I found myself listening, despite myself.<br/><br/>“We shot them, the people who heard too much of the Simurgh’s song, who weren’t just walking disaster areas, but who’d listened long enough that they ''lost'' something.  Men, women and children missing that moral center that people like Miss Militia and I have.  Hell, even ''you’ve'' got morals.  They didn’t.  I’m sure you heard about it, you’re not ''that'' young.  Suicide bombers, dirty bombs.  ''Terrorism'', if you will.  Eleven year olds and old men making their way to Amsterdam or London and opening fire in a crowded area.  Just like ''that''.”<br/><br/>Tagg slammed his hand down on the metal table, coinciding with the ‘that’.  I jumped a little, despite myself.<br/><br/>''He’s just trying to rattle me.''<br/><br/>“Once we realized what was happening, we had to act, contain the damage.  Contain ''families''.  Had to act against people who went home from a day of trying to kill the rest of us and cooked a nice dinner, oblivious to just how fucked they were in the head.  People who were otherwise ''good'', who got warped on a fundamental level, left open to the preaching and the incitement of their angrier neighbors.  Two years of fighting before we got the word down from on high, that they couldn’t rehabilitate the ones they’d captured, the ones who’d listened too long.  The poor assholes would play nice until they saw an opportunity, then they’d take it, do as much damage as they could.  Two years fighting good people who’d been convinced they had to throw their lives away fighting an enemy that didn’t exist.  So we closed the perimeter, bombed them out, herded them and gunned them down.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/cell-22-2/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref>

At an unknown point [[tinker]]s started making [[Three Blasphemies|blasphemous creations]].

The [[Dark Society]] was active in Europe but was crushed by the Suits and the Protectorate.

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