Northern Graveyard - Introduction

The following is a fictional history inspired by true events. Any and all similarities to real events are coincident. [[Continue|One]]

This work is satire. The author has taken creative liberties to portray events considered taboo to render authentically in the West. As a member of the subject populace effected by the same forces of history as described in the story, there is a duty to render them as honestly as possible. Exaggerating when necessary, but keeping sacred the legitimate events and their names as they are known to the annals of history. [[Continue|Two]]

The limits of the medium for the narrative necessitate certain inconveniences, you have already become familiar with one of them. [[Continue|Three]]

One is splitting up the text into smaller bits, digestible for today's audience. This is a compromise. The ideal form of the narrative is a tragic trilogy, a play in a theatre, or a small-budget series of video games. The author apologizes for this and promises to do everything they can with their meagre skill in the arts to bring you the best possible version of the story. [[Continue|Four]]

The author is a man out of time, a prince in exile, the product of The Great Game, Anglo-Afghan Wars, Cold War and the numerous changes in governance of the civilizations of the Indus Valley. [[Continue|Five]]

The earliest mention of the tribe the author belongs to is in Herodotus' Histories, Book III §93. The Ancient Greek is Πάκτυες, in Modern English this is rendered as Pactyïke. Today we call these people the Pashtuns. [[Continue|Six]]

Or Patang, Pakhtun, Pathan, and several others. The people render themselves in their own script as REDACTED. [[Continue|Seven]]

Around the region the people continue to use the sexagesimal system, a remnant of the Ancient Babylonian civilization. Though today this information is lost. [[Continue|Eight]]

The region is known for another number system, from exploits gained during the Islamic Golden Era, also known as REDACTED. al-Jabr was published by al-Khwarizmi, these words have come to us in Modern English as Algebra and Algorithm. But these words are not from the Pashtun people. [[Continue|Nine]]

The people are largely oral, considered to be a poetic people. Religion and poetry have a deep history, the author considers himself to be a continuer of this tradition. Job and Jobs were his inspiration. Shakespeare and Milton follow too. Rahman Baba, or REDACTED is considered among the greatest of the Sufi poets. [[Continue|Ten]]

The entirety of this work is written in metre. There are secrets within but they can only be understood out if the work is read the right way. Where to put emphasis, where to skip a syllable. Modern poetry denies its heritage, seeking to create tradition instead of following in the footsteps of past masters and innovating. [[Contiue|Eleven]]

This work follows an older tradition, one lost to time but not lost forever. It persists in the people, a poetic people, at times a fighting people. [[Continue|Twelve]]

Press PLAY to begin your adventure: [[PLAY|1-Introduction]]

Canada was involved in providing the bomb to Afghanisatan, for the purposes of creating a bulwark to the growing Pakistan-India alliance & the growth of the Unaligned Bloc. [[Continue|2-Introduction]]

The brains behind PROFUNC, the instigator of the Gouzenko Affair and an Unknown were responsible for what ultimately resulted in a nuclear explosion leading to a nuclear descruction on a global scale, the informal name for the project was Operation Durand's Death [[Continue|3-Introduction]]

One-hundred fifty years later, you emerge from the Diefenbunker, to understand Canada's role in The Last War [[Continue|4-Introduction]]

Your family raised you in the Diefenbunker, you are the 7th generation descendent of Unknown and you known you need to go to the "Graveyard of Empires" to find out what really happened. [[Continue|5-Introduction]]

Canada, following in the footsteps of other Empires, in its attempt to join the cadre of empire, bit off more than it could chew, lending to its ruin [[Continue|6-Introduction]]

This is the sory of how Canada became a "Northern Graveyard", in its pursuit of Empire, it fell to the "Graveyard of Empires", this is the story of Nuclear destruction. This is the story of... THE FALL OF EMPIRE [[Continue|7-Introduction]]

Though 80% of the population of humanity died immediatly after the bombs dropped 18% survived, notably the indigenous populations of the world rebounded & thrived, returing to traditional forms of governance, their fusion with the developed technology created to denezens of the pre-war era what seemed to be Utopia, with major militaries gone the indigenous communities became exclusive & defensive, able to protect their land from purportedly soverign democratic governance [[Continue|8-Introduction]]

The story begins with a reverie, you have them often, memories from experiences your mother explained in vivid detail, this one is about your great-...-grandfather, Yassin Ul Haq, a newly arrived immigrant to Canada, working on improving diplomatic relations between the British Raj and Canada, to aid with the economic growth of both countries, sidestepping the major powers of the world [[Continue|9-Introduction]]

YUL, or as the French called him, Jaune, an affectionate play on words, Jan being a term of endearment people of the Indian subcontinent and nearby regions use, and commentary on his yellow-ish complexion, causing the first French Minister of Canada to ask if, in an exasperated manner, he had jaundice after her became sick on his first long distance flight, was beloved by all, in his country and Canada. [[Continue|10-Introduction]]

You call the memory "Sunshine" and over the years you've begun to think of it as a game, you explore what Canada might be like if there was never a war, and if the Curse of the Graveyard never made its way North. [[Begin|Prologue]]