The Collapse (Malica)

"...Much about the collapse of the Systems Federation, a ramification of the more known but decidedly mythicized Keyblade War, is limited at best and nonexistent at worst, in fact, there's very little we know about this era of Malica's history. At least other than it apparently being a very chaotic and violent time for the people of Malica, with one particular journal we've recovered that took the point of view of a civilian living through that time describing it as "a universe gone mad"..."

— excrept from the Malican history book The Collapse: the Five Thousand Year Civil War written by historians Darcey McIntyre, Bujorad Ajola, Yasu Godo and Gulzar Kean published 529 AXC (1789 NE)

The Collapse, better known as the Five Thousand Year War, the Systems Federation Civil War, the Age of Madness, and simply The Shattering, refers to the five thousand year long civil war that torn the Systems Federation apart that erupted somepoint after the Keyblade War concluded and nearly destroyed the Keyblade Order in turn. But unlike the Keyblade War, which continued to be remembered, if mythized, the Collapse did not, as there exist limited, if not completely absent information about the conflict other then a few barely intact ruins found across the universe to vary degrees and ages. As such details of this period of time reminds vague but what information has been discovered paints a altogether horrific time period for the people of the Malica Universe as civilization itself began to slowly tear itself apart in a millennia long conflict which ultimately resulted in the vast majority of its' people forced into a stone-age like primitivism for the next hundred thousand years.

History

Downfall of the Federation

The remaining factions of the Systems Federation with limited resources would either forced to find new solutions to survive, or fight amongst themselves.

As many human worlds remained isolated and with no means of accessing to the gate technologies or interstellar travel, they would be forced to survive, those that survive the collapse for many thousands of years. Many with technological achievements would fade into history, a handful of humans that adapt would either evolve into new humanoid races through genetic mutations or artificial adaptation.

Legacy

With the collapse of the Federation their legacy left a major impact on many worlds then just humans. The ancestors of the Cryptids left on remote world forced to adapt and evolved into a more civilized race and discover ancient gate technologies to one of the Terran worlds to harvest emotional based energy as their energy source. There have been evidence of some human societies cut off from their cousins would perhaps have evolved or mutated into new races.

Notes

• The Collapse is heavily influenced and inspired by the real life historical event the Bronze Age Collapse, with equal amount of mystery around it as well, although a bit more detailed as to what that collapse details.
• Some Alliance historians almost compare this historical event much to other civilisations
  • The Imperium of Man's Age of Strife
  • The Second Human Empire's Second Civil War
  • New Eden's downfall of human society.
• The Collapse started anywhere between 150 thousand and 149 thousand and ended anywhere between 145 to 144 thousand years before the events of 1260 NE.
• Some of Malica's species can trace its' origin to this point in time, or rather inuniverse evidence imply as such, like the Cryptids of Monsters Inc world being originally created as a biological beast of war that slowly became sentient over the course of the conflict (with plenty of Cryptid cave painting depicting a growing sense of guilt over what they are forced to do over the conflict though still vague as to who or what had them made in the first place.
• Other details describe the Heartless, or rather how much more horrific and monstrous they became over the conflict, starting from what they were in the Keyblade War to some truly nightmarish creatures slaughtering everything, regardless of who it might be, and stayed that way for some time before slowly reverting back to a less nightmarish but still deadly form.
  • some remnants of this does exist in the form of the Druun from Kumandra, as they are a form of Heartless which did not turned their more common and well known versions in the wider universe and implied to be partly what the Heartless became during the Collapse, if more gruesome and horrific then the petrification the Druun leaves behind.