Second: Invasions
Earth seems to have the worst luck when it comes to invasions. For the last few decades, it seems not a year goes by without at least one batch of extraterrestrials or beings from another dimension coming by to conquer, enslave, harvest, devour, etc. There are reasons for this.
1) Earth’s solar system is connected to multiple pocket dimensions. The Moon Kingdom had multiple bomb shelters that at least some people were evacuated into during the final battle. These weren’t just conventional shelters but were a form of dimensional life boat. When the planets other than Earth lost their magic-based teraforming these shelters shifted into other planes, becoming self-sustaining pocket dimensions. Over the millennia, the populations of various pocket realms have thrived, died off, evolved culturally or physically, mutated and degenerated, etc, with each realm following its own path of development or disaster. Further complicating things, are people from Earth occasionally accessing one of these pockets because they need to seal something nasty away and sometimes they didn’t check or didn’t care if there were inhabitants already.
2) In the last few centuries we have had European explorers tramping about, disturbing seals leading to these pocket dimensions, etc. Decline in belief has led to a decline in various rituals maintaining seals. And then you have mad or even fairly sane scientists meddling with things they shouldn’t have, at least not without a lot more ground work. A number of these pocket realms have been drawing closer and reconnecting with Earth or space in Earth’s vicinity. So, for example, there have been a number of invasions from Mars involving beings that are probably the descendants of Mars-from-the-Moon-Kingdom but don’t actually live on Mars as it is now. In other cases you get something like Oz or NeverNever Land or the Magical-Kindgom-of-X from kiddy-cartoon-show-Y.
3) This odd hyperspace structure has also opened worm holes and other forms of hyperspace conduits leading to distant places in this universe. A lot of those pathways lead to people with imperialistic tendencies who don’t necessarily know or care where Earth actually is on the star charts and may not be from this galaxy. Some of these, like the aliens in the Outlanders manga, may be decendants of refugees from some earlier period of Earth's history and they want to reclaim their ancestral homeworld.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
Earth seems to have the worst luck when it comes to invasions. For the last few decades, it seems not a year goes by without at least one batch of extraterrestrials or beings from another dimension coming by to conquer, enslave, harvest, devour, etc. There are reasons for this.
1) Earth’s solar system is connected to multiple pocket dimensions. The Moon Kingdom had multiple bomb shelters that at least some people were evacuated into during the final battle. These weren’t just conventional shelters but were a form of dimensional life boat. When the planets other than Earth lost their magic-based teraforming these shelters shifted into other planes, becoming self-sustaining pocket dimensions. Over the millennia, the populations of various pocket realms have thrived, died off, evolved culturally or physically, mutated and degenerated, etc, with each realm following its own path of development or disaster. Further complicating things, are people from Earth occasionally accessing one of these pockets because they need to seal something nasty away and sometimes they didn’t check or didn’t care if there were inhabitants already.
2) In the last few centuries we have had European explorers tramping about, disturbing seals leading to these pocket dimensions, etc. Decline in belief has led to a decline in various rituals maintaining seals. And then you have mad or even fairly sane scientists meddling with things they shouldn’t have, at least not without a lot more ground work. A number of these pocket realms have been drawing closer and reconnecting with Earth or space in Earth’s vicinity. So, for example, there have been a number of invasions from Mars involving beings that are probably the descendants of Mars-from-the-Moon-Kingdom but don’t actually live on Mars as it is now. In other cases you get something like Oz or NeverNever Land or the Magical-Kindgom-of-X from kiddy-cartoon-show-Y.
3) This odd hyperspace structure has also opened worm holes and other forms of hyperspace conduits leading to distant places in this universe. A lot of those pathways lead to people with imperialistic tendencies who don’t necessarily know or care where Earth actually is on the star charts and may not be from this galaxy. Some of these, like the aliens in the Outlanders manga, may be decendants of refugees from some earlier period of Earth's history and they want to reclaim their ancestral homeworld.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.