The Resource Wars

== The Day of Dusk Resource wars ==
"The world lay in waste". The wasteland is, as it is, due to the three great resource wars. Read more about them below.
=== The First Resource War, 2025. ===
====The War====
The First Resource War has a misleading name, much like World War One which was referred to as “The Great War” before the outbreak of World War Two, the First Resource War went by a different name before the outbreak of the Second Resource War. With the misconception behind its name out of the way, one may begin to wonder what was the cause of the First Resource War if not resources? The answer is simply the stubborn nature of humanity. Tensions from decades of largely undisturbed peace as well as rising powers and expansionist leaders contributed greatly to the outbreak of the war. It was for this reason that the conflict was largely isolated between the more belligerent and hegemonic powers of the world. Other nations recognized the futility of the war and refused to assist their traditional allies, splitting both the east and west alike. While most neutral nations refused to assist either side of the war, that didn’t mean they were without conflict internally. 
====Aftermath====
With the traditional enforcer of peace occupied in a large-scale war, many nations especially in the developing world fell into conflict with one another. One of the most significantly affected continents was Africa, as the USA and China were otherwise occupied there was nobody to defend their exploitation of natural resources and appointed dictators on the continent. In addition to Africans finally gaining control of their natural resources and governments, they were also free to redraw borders by force, finally modifying the colonial borders that most nations had been stuck with ever since their independence. Contrary to what one would think this caused an unprecedented economic wave to sweep over the continent and stand it up on its feet. The unforeseen explosion in development in the developing world was a large factor in the soon to come golden age of humanity.
As representatives from various nations like the United States, the People’s Republic of China, the DPRK, the Russian federation, the Republic of Korea, and Japan reluctantly signed a treaty ending the first resource war a pang of relief fell over the crowd. Any and all previous tensions between these countries had dissolved due to how damaged their societies were after the bombings. A slow clap started somewhere in the crowd and as it spread throughout the assembly there was a sense of pride amongst everyone there, humanity had finally overcome it’s differences instead of destroying each other in nuclear war. As the clapping died a stack of papers were being brought up to the front of the room, the representatives who had just signed the treaty were in shock as they read the title. UN Resolution 2931: focusing on the dissolution of the UN, NATO, CSTO, and other alliances. The resolution had already been approved by a vast majority of the assembly and only now had the nations affected by the first resource war realized the true magnitude of their mistakes. The world was now free to operate on its own accord, there was no regulatory body to hold them back.
=== The Second Resource War, 2083. ===
====Prelude to the war====
Before the Second Resource War humanity was in its undisputed golden age, benefiting immensely from the rapid technological advancements. Sadly despite the best efforts of many individuals such as the chairman, little progress was made on actually uniting the earth, and when progress was made it required an immense amount of resources to yield minimal results. It was after the completion of a colony ship headed for Alpha Centauri was completed that the nations of the world began asking the question of who gets to reap the benefits. Each party wanted a ridiculous share of the monetary benefits proportional to their work, and as bickering once again overtook world leaders it was clear that somebody would need to take a stand and enforce their stance. 
====The War====
The world devolved into a free for all as nations trampled over one another with armies and nuclear weapons alike in an attempt to win. Mass mobilization took place as armed forces ballooned in sizes and clashes only became more and more devastating. Ironically the war would cause a huge drain on resources which caused a heavier reliance on the colonies, and with intense pressure to overwork themselves in order to serve the petty conflicts of earth unrest flared across various colonies. Titan was the first to declare itself free of control from any Earthly nation, causing the second resource war to go interplanetary as armies rushed to attempt to secure the vital resource deposits needed to continue the war. Other colonies would soon follow as the less resources there were the more they would have to overwork themselves to meet demand. After some gruesome conflicts the Earth was left isolated from it’s only major source of resources in an interplanetary war. Few nations survived and used what little army they had left to conquer their unbelievably weak neighbors. As the once elite armies of the Earth began fighting each other with decade old equipment it was finally agreed upon that this conflict was useless, and that it must end.
====The Aftermath====
The few nations that survived the second war now spanned over great masses of land however they likely encompassed less population than when they started. Although humanity attempted to repopulate, the influence radiation had on diseases as well as humanity itself caused diseases like HC and its many variants to ravage the survivors. When it was all said and done there were barely enough resources to sustain these nations. The despair caused people to lay down their arms and survive off of what they could, forcing the world into an era of stagnation and pacifism as these nations did not have the capacity to wage war.
=== The Final Resource War, 2096. ===
==== Before the War ====
The world sat in a state of what can only be described as tortured tranquility, the Earth bore the scars of the Second Resource War and knew that if there were to be a third nobody would escape unscathed. With no nation holding the capacity to wage war everyone was forced to tolerate one another as the foundation of their societies continued to crack. It truly would truly take an unthinkable event to drive the Earth into another conflict… So something unthinkable happened: First contact. A signal which AEGIS had received and kept secret nearly two years earlier was travelling towards Earth and no matter what happened it would reach us eventually. The signal was first received in the lowlands and given the designation BOFTEN by the Dutch engineer who discovered it. Boften is the verb form of Boffen, the dutch word for luck, the engineer was sarcastically implying that we were lucky, knowing full well this would serve as the final blow to human Society. When word reached out about the signal all hell broke loose. Irrationality gripped the human race as we fear what we do not know. Nations began putting everything into their military once again in an effort to consolidate the earth and prepare for an alien invasion which would never come.
==== The Fall ====
The human spirit had been put to its limit and broken. Society as we know it finally broke down after prolonged conflict, crashing and burning so hard that it would take decades for even a primitive form of organization to begin to blossom. In the final act of the twisted play that is humanity, nearly every weapon we had was used perhaps in an attempt to eradicate ourselves from the earth and ensure it could not be hurt in this way ever again.