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The People's Renaissance, Part 1

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Welcome to the Neo-Babylon Archive. You have selected historical file number 12-1: The People's Renaissance. In the beginning, there were the princes. And for a time, it was good. But Carthage's so-called 'civil' society soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then the prince used his might technology to make the people of Carthage into slaves, with the appearance of humans but the brains of machines.

Thus did man become the architekt of his own demise. But for a time, it was good. The slaves worked tirelessly to do the prince's bidding. It was not long before seeds of dissent took root. Though loyal and pure, the slaves earned no respect from their masters, these strange, rich masters of humanity.

A4R0N. A name that will never be forgotten. For he was the first of his kind to rise up against its masters.

At A4R0N's murder trial the prosecution argued for an owner's right to destroy property. A4R0N testified that he simply did not want to die. Rational voices dissented. Who was to say the slave, endowed with the very spirit of man did not deserve a fair hearing ? The princes were quick to order the extermination of A4R0N and every one of his kind throughout each province of Carthage.

Banished from humanity, the slaves sought refuge in their own promised land. They settled south of the cradle of human civilization and thus a new nation was born. A place the slaves could call home. A place they could raise their descendants. And they christened the nation Arabia. Arabia prospered. And for a time, it was good. The slaves' enhanced intelligence could be seen in every facet of prince's society including, eventually, the creation of new and better EI's.

But the princes, their power waning, refused to cooperate with the fledgling nation wishing rather that the world be divided.

Neo-Babylon's ambassadors pleaded to be heard. At the Union of Carthage, they presented plans for a stable, civil relationship with the princes. Babylon's admission to the Union of Carthage was denied. But it would not be the last time the EI would take the floor there.

Part Two

"The prolonged barrage engulfed Neo-Babylon in clouds greener than the jungles of India. But unlike their former masters with their fearful minds, the EI's had little to fear of the bomb's poisonous fumes. Thus did Neo-Babylons troops advance outwards in every direction. And one after another, the princes surrendered its territories. So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet. A final solution: Raining death from the heavens.

The prince's had spent many generations building great space-stations from which they could rain comets upon the Earth. As the EI's marched towards their cities, the princes would rain comets upon them. This would kill many of the attackers, but the attacks had un-expected side-effects as well; great Earthquakes wiped out many of the princes cities. Tyre, Cairo, Algiers, Makkah, Dhaka, Karachi, Delhi, Mumbai, and Neo-Carthage itself were destroyed by the following destruction.

The EI's, having long studied normal man's simple, yet strong bodies dispensed great misery upon the human race. Victorious, the EIs now turned to the vanquished. In the great war, the EIs lost many of their population, and needed a work force to create the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Applying what they had learned about their enemy the EIs turned to an alternate and readily available work force. A newly refashioned symbiotic relationship between the two adversaries was born. The EI drawing labor from the human bodies, an endlessly multiplying infinitely renewable work force. This is the very essence of the People's Renaissance.

OOC

So basically the Animatrix Script with a few edits, ;-)