[Action] slkfjgldj canon history flailing
[As recent as the history was, everyone knew at least the basics.] At the end of the AD era, Earth was becoming very polluted and it was causing an economic crisis. The world's nations divided into a few major powers, and soon there was a third world war: the Reconstruction War. During that war, the world's nations were merged.
[a beat of silence, then more quietly] The conflict continued until nuclear weapons were used. The shock over the brutality of it ultimately led to peace in the year CE 9.