Noir Scape
“Let them be and remain innocent enough to only respect and fear men with big guns in dark coats with hidden faces, to only fear their protectors, when they grew to stop fearing the trivial monsters of childhood.”
“The Vulkaz-wrami had landed upon a Scape already at war, already on the march to greater war, but not a ruined Scape. The imminent combatants had unified instead of wasting their lives against each other. And when they learned what the occupiers called them the savages laughed the started styling themselves as Noir heroes.”
-Terra Incognita
This land resembled historical Earth around the year 1930 (Gregorian) at the time when it experienced the Hit and the Loosing. By the time the Austral Unity began exploring and occupying the Noir Scape it had recovered from famine and disease to the point of being able to eke out independence in defiance of the Unity, and guerilla warfare against the occupiers was quickly organized. Many of the factions and individuals previously fated to fight in WWII and the Cold War were unified against the Vulkaz-wrami, including the Soviet Union, Imperial Japan, the Weimar Republic, the United States of America and a colonial British Empire; noteworthy individuals include the Soviet snipers Okhlopkov and Sidorenko, generals Rommel and Patton, the Chicago gangster Sonny Capone, and amoral scientists in the employ of Imperial Japan’s Unit 731 such as Shiro Ishii and their European counterparts such as Joseph Mengele.
After prolonged warfare, the atrocity of the Great Slick, and continued warfare against the Auravelus by Girid with inconsistent assistance from the secular Unity the Noir Scape solidified a code of intentional technological stagnation and militant atheism and anti-theism to resist assimilation into the Unity by technological or cultural exchanges. Electronics are outlawed to prevent monitoring and control by the Unity, and religion is despised and distrusted because of the Auravelus attempt to convert Noir peoples by syncretism of their religion with local beliefs.