Editing Autumn (section)

== The Setting ==
Harmony is a world beyond earth, to us they are an indefinable time and distance away from our lands, and to them they are the only life in the galaxy. The people of Harmony have become accustomed to death, a deadly nine week war brought the world to its knees when the Pentad Powers launched a preemptive war against the Great Babylon; an action spawned by fear that their future would become a trivial matter for the endlessly growing superstate. The aftermath of this even caused massive famines and natural disasters as Babylonian exports and maintenance evaporated, such matters doesn't concern the new regime of states. The new mentality has ended much humanitarian sensibilities among the population, leaving the violent and paranoid ways of the feudal period to make a strong return in the new generations. This has shaped the method in which governance is administered, with surviving villages being dispersed in distant isolated pockets; many rural folk have only the vaguest idea of their own rulers, let alone the outside world. 

The changed outlook of the populace reflects the Harmony's natural limitations. Harmony's surface area is far greater than our own, stretching logistics as supply lines stretch into the deep wilderness; lands that have never been properly mapped or civilized. The lack of plentiful petroleum has also changed the ways that people can travel. Hand drawn carts and horses remain the choice of transportation for most, with cars being targeted by the large populations of forest bandits that have arisen after the Great War. Fuel, perhaps the most vital resource, competes with food on the fields. It is often said that a full tank requires an empty stomach.