All Under Heaven

The year is 3888, and Earth as we know it is a distant memory.

Humanity came to the exoplanet of Elysia for a new world, free from dying Earth. It would not last.

The Fall destroyed all things. Technology, infrastructure, civilizations. Yet it is not that easy to kill off mankind. They tied together the ruins of their civilization, reforging their tattered nations and faiths into something that hopefully resembled what once was.

For almost four hundred years, the Celestial Empire of Heaven and Earth has ruled supreme as nation to which to which all others revolved. It shunned the old beliefs- science, democracy, and communism, amongst others- as sphecters of a sinful past not to repeat. Though it’s conquest was brutal and bloody, when the war-horns grew silent, peace and prosperty ensued.

Yet like people, empires grow old. As the faith, morality, and bravery that buttressed the World-Empire gives way, so does the Empire itself.

Let us journey through the land as madness and aliment sweeps across desperate humanity, and look upon his failing nations as they snap like twigs to the onslaught of time. Let us watch as faiths fall into dogmatism, as sword-battles shake the ruins of Pre-Fall skyscrapers, as heroes and empires wash away in the tides of time.

Junhao Fu is an author of Chinese-Canadian descent who lives and works in Vancouver, BC. Since he was young, he had a passion for history, particularly the history of various Asian states. He is an author, artist, history scholar and an archer of the Manchu Qing military tradition.