A war of thoughts; people with powers who could control matter with their minds warred with one another, causing chaos among the innocent people who were not involved. Homes vanished or were burned, children became sick or died in the thousands, unknown diseases spread, physicians were helpless, strange fungi appeared on buildings destroying them and making people ill, and emotions ran high, resulting in murder and injury. The war of the thoughts resulted in the sky turning odd colors, massive winter storms during the summer, unbearable heat, many elderly died of the heat, and rains that never ceased for months that destroyed crops. Because of these wars in later times, some lands became desolate ice-bound deserts, and the inhabitants moved away or perhaps died in great numbers.
Some conflicts involved only machines, never people, the emotions and thoughts of people came into these machines, perhaps they have constructed that way, or people transferred their souls. But it was apparent the machines were intelligent, they developed new or transformed into new weapons, and it was an arms race that went on forever. The war machines were enormous; they crushed people, animals, cities, and many life forms in the wars. War machines existed that bore into the ground to swallow up to destroy machines on the opposing side. The machine-like tanks fired conventional shells. Some traveled the land with large wheels and caterpillar tires to crush other devices. There were many endless forms that a war machine could be constructed into.
Many wars are waged with horses, armor, swords, pikes, knives, battle axes, halberds, and blades of many forms. There was a battle rope that looked just like a cord used almost like a whip, but it could be formed into any configuration; the warrior’s thoughts using such a weapon could destroy an enemy in battle in seconds or cut a man in half. A type of shield existed that rotated at high speed like a drill; as it turned, it repelled projectiles and attacking blades. Blades weren’t fixed in their form. They changed shape, conforming to the warriors’ thoughts and combat tactics. A sword existed that opened and closed like scissors chopping anything in its way. Horses were trained to attack and to know the views of the warrior who rode them.
There were all kinds of conflicts in the mythical world. There are so many records of these worlds that not everything can be written down.
Robert J. Matsunaga
