The Consortium

The Consortium was a secret political faction within Mechania, who's goal is rapid technological growth by any means nessisary.

Founding
The Consortium was created  in secret by a group of scientists working on the development of electronics. They realised that their inventions would be able to revolutionize technology, given enough time and resources, but would be entirely ignored in favor of the already quite advanced steam powered technology, unless some forceful action was taken.

Action 66
The Consortium needed far more resources before they could begin their revolution, so they created a plan, which would become known as Action 66. The plan was
 * 1) Construct an advanced automaton combining the newly developed electrical technology and traditional clockwork, that could annilate any rivals. This prototype automaton was named R-2180.
 * 2) Eliminate all potentail threats to Consortium takeover and control of Mechania.
 * 3) Secretly gain control of Mechania, then use it's resources to further the development of electrical technology.

Sucess
Althought R-2180 was destroyed, his mission was a sucess, and The Consortium sucessfully took control of Mechania. The city was later renamed to Electrica, which became a eutopia for scientists and inventors (though rumors of the poor vanishing and strange expiriments slowly began to appear) and produced many technical wonders such as video games and short ranged radio communications. These publicly known inventions were rudamentary, however, compared to the advanced technology the consortium constructed in secret, as its constant need for difficult to obtain resources made The Consortium begin to prepare to seize more territory for itself. This technology was also built to fail upon command from the Consortium, leaving the rest of the world with little electrical technology of their own. Soon, Electrica would break away from Chaen, and politcal tension soon followed.

War
Eventually, The Consortium's plans for territorial gain came to fruition. After 10 years, The Consortium had managed to construct a vast army of advanced electrical automatons, who could act as a powerful ground force against the forces of MECH. Behind these forces, new amazing technologies developed in secret, long range communication, advanced sensors and weapondry, improved ground transportation, and even airial vehicles. The activation of the electrical failure devices embedded in their sold technology left MECH with only their steam-powered devices. Despite its small size, the new nation of Elaia might yet be able to conqour Chaen...

Technology
The Consortium is the forfront of electrical development. (More to be added on continuation of this Era)

Members

 * R-2180 (Dead)

Enemies

 * MECH
 * Frank (Dead)


 * The Mob (Eliminated)