Annecten Civilization

The Annecten Civilization was a civilization of mobian hadrosaurs which rose up briefly after the K-Pg mass extinction event 66 million years ago. They lasted roughly 40,000 years before going extinct.
The civilization's population consisted entirely of descendants of ∞Edmontosaurus annectens which managed to survive the extinction event by protecting their mobini counterparts—something that many other large mobians of the late Cretaceous failed to do, unaware that they would not survive. Realizing the vulnerability of their kind, the Annectens made an effort to ensure that signs of their existence would be preserved in geological time, which shaped their culture into something heavily based around preservation of knowledge and events. Although much was still lost, their efforts to leave a mark paid off—they are currently the most well-understood pre-Holocene civilization.
==Location==
The Annectens primarily lived in Northamer, but they occasionally attempted to colonize other parts of the world only to be suppressed by other mobians of the time as suggested by records, ruins, and fossils found in Soumerca and Yurashia.
==Religion==
Initially, the Annectens had many different religions due to their members being from different cultures that were obliterated by the extinction event. As millennia went by, they shifted to a polytheistic religion which deified their founders, and the recording of one's life was a religious event. Important events, such as wars, would see gatherings of millions of Annectens to record what happened from every point of view while praying to their founders that the event would be remembered long after they were gone.
==History==
According to various Annecten records, the K-Pg mass extinction event had not been predicted by astronomers, and no survivors of the event had a definitive explanation for what happened. As the world fell into chaos, many mobian dinosaurs tried to hide from the rain of fire and survived, but to their dismay their mobini counterparts had not been so lucky, and so they soon weakened and died out. The mobians who would go on to form the Annecten civilization anticipated the same fate, but it never came to pass—as it turned out, a large herd of their mobini counterpart had been protected from the event by others of their kind. All the survivors, still rather few in number, came together and assessed the situation, as the idea of a sudden collapse of all civilization without the actual end of the world was unprecedented—although past mass extinction events were known to them, none were quite so abrupt or world-changing all at once. And if something like this could happen, it could happen again.
The founders of the Annecten civilization decided to dedicate themselves to making sure their history, and the time they remembered leading up to the extinction event, would not be forgotten, using their knowledge of fossilization and the preservation of older civilizations to make their records seemingly indestructible. Initially this was done with the aid of technology, but the ability to craft their technology faded and they worked by hand from then on instead.
Reading Annecten records in chronological order, one can see their original pre-K-Pg cultures fade as they slowly deified their founders more and more. They occasionally warred with other mobians, but managed to stay more-or-less together for 40,000 years with only two known breakups.
Despite their best efforts to record their knowledge, the late Annectens did not heed their own warnings to protect their mobini counterparts. As a result, their mobini population was driven to extinction by mammals eating their eggs, causing the Annecten civilization to be cut off from the chaos energy link they relied on and die out. As this was happening, they made an effort to preserve records of their fall in high redundancy as their final legacy and as a warning to other mobians to protect their own mobini counterparts or risk the same fate.
== Trivia ==
* The Annecten Civilization is inspired by discoveries of hadrosaur bones above the K-Pg boundary in real life. The specific species of hadrosaur was chosen based on the fact that E. annectens lived at the very end of the cretaceous and the fossil formation it is known from is also one of the ones with post-K-Pg hadrosaur bones.
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