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At the end of the [[40 Year Empire War]], the Celestines, like [[Song]], were devastated. They were exhausted physically and economically and lacked the will to prevent what quickly became a corporate takeover of their civilization. Within three decades of the end of the war, the Celestines were effectively ruled by a cabal of competing [[keiretsu]] - allied groups of large companies with interlocking relationships and shareholdings. The century that followed saw these keiretsu, some of whom were rumored to have ties to [[Syndicate]] Space (in particular the massive [[Wayland Astrotech]]), embarked on a development binge on [[Glisal II]], the capital of the Celestines, and ruthlessly plundered its environment of resources, destroying it. | At the end of the [[40 Year Empire War]], the Celestines, like [[Song]], were devastated. They were exhausted physically and economically and lacked the will to prevent what quickly became a corporate takeover of their civilization. Within three decades of the end of the war, the Celestines were effectively ruled by a cabal of competing [[keiretsu]] - allied groups of large companies with interlocking relationships and shareholdings. The century that followed saw these keiretsu, some of whom were rumored to have ties to [[Syndicate]] Space (in particular the massive [[Wayland Astrotech]]), embarked on a development binge on [[Glisal II]], the capital of the Celestines, and ruthlessly plundered its environment of resources, destroying it. | ||
Though always a wealthy area, much of [[the Singing Citadel]]'s more outsized testaments to personal glory and wealth were constructed during this period to house the executives of the companies that make up these keiretsu. An increasingly large portion of the Ascendancy's wealth was filtering upwards to these already fantastically-wealthy individuals, while the populations of [[Scrapston]] and the near-anarchic [[:Litharge#The_Subnet|Subnet]] swelled. | Though always a wealthy area, much of [[the Singing Citadel]]'s more outsized testaments to personal glory and wealth were constructed during this period to house the executives of the companies that make up these keiretsu. An increasingly large portion of the Ascendancy's wealth was filtering upwards to these already fantastically-wealthy individuals, while the populations of [[Litharge#Scrapston|Scrapston]] and the near-anarchic [[:Litharge#The_Subnet|Subnet]] swelled. | ||
By ~880 A.E., when [[the Angel of Scrapston]] made her first known appearance, the disparity in wealth in the Celestine Ascendancy had become truly acute. The middle class had all but disappeared, and life for most people was scratching out an existence in whatever short-term low-paying jobs they could find while the sky palaces of the masters of finance and production loomed over them. | By ~880 A.E., when [[the Angel of Scrapston]] made her first known appearance, the disparity in wealth in the Celestine Ascendancy had become truly acute. The middle class had all but disappeared, and life for most people was scratching out an existence in whatever short-term low-paying jobs they could find while the sky palaces of the masters of finance and production loomed over them. | ||