CE 2575

The one constant in the universe is, and always has been, change.

The Earth's movements around the sun alter year by year by fractions of the most minute measurements. The rotation of the planet itself is affected by the movements of the restless tectonic plates that nudge one another in a never-ending fight for dominance fueled by the core of the planet. In turn these masses of land both above and below the level of the ocean rise and fall, their shapes morphing and twisting in the grip of time and nature.

And the people.

The people change the most of all.

Nearly two hundred years after nearly half of the continent of North America sank into the oceans, scientists are still looking for answers, and finding very few, other than the discovery of the unstable nature of the Earth's crust. The quakes that claimed the continent and thousands of lives weren't the last – the seismic activity continued through much of the next century, focused upon the areas where the landmass had sunk. Much of the areas of the globe usually plagued by activity were free of quakes in this time period, leading some to believe that the earth's molten core had shifted towards the western hemisphere, causing the crust to simultaneously heat, crack, and shift. This lead to changes in sea level throughout the Atlantic.

A hundred years ago, the solutions to global warming was provided by the Nation of Japan, involving tiny nanite robots and an energy shield, fueled by the very geothermal heat that caused it in the first place.

None of the scientists who worked on the project could explain where some of the data came from, however no one questioned how efficiently it worked. Lands that had been claimed by the ocean resurfaced. Coastlines changed, islands emerged.

The movement of the crust changed the landscape, however, and ruins from the lost islands were found halfway across the seas that they had last been mapped in. Grecian ruins were found on a series of islands next to Spain, for example, when, according to the old records of that country, they had been much closer to the peninsula of Greece.

The ruins of a castle that Canadian records show as having been in the middle of the island known as 'Great Britain' were found on a newly exposed island100 kilometers off of the southwest coast of Ireland that extends another thousand kilometers into the Atlantic, with a series of smaller rocky atolls trailing in the same direction. Likewise, a few indications of ruins from the sunken part of the continent of North America have been found on a series of islands running from southeast of Canada towards the European continent.

These islands, referred to as the East and West Atlantean islands, have remained unclaimed by any nation, however the Western Islands are considered to be under the auspices of the Canadian government, while the Eastern have been watched over by both France and Spain. These nations have only allowed their peoples to apply to colonize these islands within the past decade, as they have only recently become arable.