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==The Age of Gubbinz (1880 - 1914)==
'''What Happened:''' Humanity gets it's hands on some shiny bits. Industrialization reaches it's apex and joins hands with it's BFFs capitalism and imperialism to curb stomp the individual on a level never before experienced in human history. This is the gilded age of rail magnates, oil men, and gentleman adventurers in far off corners of the empire. In this period also is the rush of European powers to take control of the "dark continent". In later years the counter currents of progressivism and anti-colonialism, along with fraying international relations and a nice dose of [[butthurt]] over who got what choice bits of Africa, will cause it all to violently implode.
*'''Themes to Use:''' The memory of this period is, unsurprisingly, split between the grandeur and horror it produced. It is commonly portrayed in fiction as a glimmering facade, a thin sheen of flash and guile covering up a deeply dysfunctional and increasingly unsettled world. Stories featuring working class heroes gel particularly well with this world of mechanization and oppression. For a more romanticized take you can also focus on good elements. The common man could, however uncommon it may have been, rise to unimaginable heights through entrepreneurialism. The world is connected in constant contact for the first time ever, and yet there are still frontiers to be conquered and all manner of strange and exotic things to be discovered.
*'''Notable Works Set In This Period:''' ''The Jungle'' by Upton Sinclair, ''Kim'' by Rudyard Kipling, ''Flashman and the Tiger'' by George MacDonald Fraser (Damn yer eyes if you've never read a book starring our lad Flashy).