Upheaval Conflict

A brutal war fought between the fragmented Human nation-states during the early 22nd century. The Upheaval Conflict got its name from the end result of the war, in which the surviving nations of Earth were pushed into lives in space due to the excessive damage done to the planet during the war, eventually forming the Humanity Doctrine to survive. Nuclear weapons were used frequently in the Upheaval Conflict, along with many chemical and biological weapons. Many of the weaker nations on Earth were completely destroyed, leaving no legacy. The only nations to survive the Upheaval Conflict and escape into space were the United States of America, the Russian Federation, Japan and the Democratic Chinese Empire. As a result, human culture following the Upheaval Conflict was limited mostly to combinations of cultural practices from these four nations, which blended together to create the Human culture present in the Coalition of Intelligent Organisms.