Connected Era

**The Connected Era** is the era from over fifty thousand years ago when the super continent Pangea existed. It is the era in history where King Ozric ruled, the first Elemental's existed, and the Fallen Sammael came into existence.

## Known History

The Connected Era is the name of the age that existed thousands of years before the Time of Awakening, even before the Anno Domini era. The civilization that existed during this time was among the most advanced of its time, possessing technologies that would make any engineer, inventor, or scientist drool with envy. This technology was truly more advanced than anything even today. Even the dimension of O-000, with its advanced war machines, cannot match it in every way. Their genetic
techniques and knowledge surpassed any others of the time, and this very knowledge allowed them to create several different species, enough to be considered the first ancestors to Mobians, although claims of that
are dubious at best.

But what they possessed in genetic science and technologies, they lacked in robotics. While they were advanced enough to create their Metal Men guardians, these great protectors only could be piloted by means of a cockpit in the basic models, with the pilots wearing bulky suits wired into the machine itself for the basic models, and the more advanced models possessed only
 a basic AI program, incapable of independent thought or free will, let
alone the ability to learn. Their science could only go so far in that field.

The Metal Men, while powerful war machines and
defenders in their own right, were nothing like the Metal Men carried by the mysterious White Legend, possessing only the basic features of robots found in old 1920s to 1940s science-fiction stories. In fact, some theorists and archaeologists claim that the Metal Men remains found were the inspiration for those kinds of robots.

In terms of their weapons and firearms, this ancient civilization was capable of
 generating weapons that are almost exactly like modern day firearms and artillery, with some exceptions of beam weapons that were small enough
to be wielded by a standard infantry soldier of the time. Most notably,
their beam technology was actually less refined than it is now,
 making it more powerful than today's beam weaponry. But their real ace
lay in their genetic techniques and science.

They were able to create Genetically ENgineered Organisms, or GENOs, for short. These GENOs actually used to be household pets, but as time passed, the military saw their use in war, and thus the Great War began, with each side developing more and more GENOs until they were almost equal with the human, Mobian, and Faunus populations at the time. This war lasted for centuries, and it didn't help much that the Grimm were starting to make advances into the country of Pangaea, which was the continent-spanning superpower of the Forgotten Age. This superpower was
able to stem the tide, and actually, what few records remain indicate that this civilization was also able to not only drive back the Grimm, but they almost succeeded in destroying them if not for the arrival of the Fallen. This led to Pangaea almost becoming the nation that saved the world from the Grimm Horde. The means by which they were able to nearly win was due to an unknown mineral, only referred to in ancient texts as enium. Some think it was a precursor to Dust, but other texts
found in subsequent ruins like Epsileon Base point to it being a different kind of material.

No one knows what the outcome of the war could have been, because sometime after the Battle of Cheyenne, the entire country was plunged into darkness, and the Cataclysm ravaged the lands, tearing the countries of the Era apart and
causing others to form from the remnants. The Connected Era came to an end, and thus the Anno Domini Era came to be.