In the year 2009 AD a band of powerful and ruthless warriors blazed a trail to new lands, deviating from the trade route that some would eventually come to call Lutz Lake Fern. Eventually settling down on their newly acquired land, the Warriors would begin to construct an empire; The George M. Steinbrenner Empire.
The Empire would remain relatively peaceful and benign for the majority of its existence, as there were ample resources and seemly infinite land to be developed. This was the case for seven prosperous years, until a new problem began to plague the Steinbrenner Empire. As their population exponentially grew, space for parking their essential steel war-chariots became extremely limited.
Simply paving a new lot was out of the question at the moment, as competition for space with neighboring states had brought the Empire’s expansion to a halt. The Steinbrenner Warriors were not the only group that had settled in the immediate area. The Empire was surrounded, blocked on every side by the Martinez City-States, the Mckitrick Dynasty, and a small obscure group of former-nomads settled to the South.
The Warriors quickly realized that expansion of their own Empire would require the fall of another.
Starting as simple ideas and rumors, a plot began to slowly emerge: target the smallest and weakest of the neighboring groups, and use that land to pave their new lot.
The first months of the new years were passed with heavy engineering and battle preparation. Plans were compiled for carrying out the battle, takeover, demolition, and construction.
Finally, in mid-summer of 2016 AD, the Steinbrenner Warriors were fully prepared to strike. The newly-assembled army of 2,000 Warriors stormed out of the South entrance, marching their way head-on to the formerly nomadic settlement between them and the Lutz Lake Fern trade route.
Due to having been nomads, the settlement about to be under siege was incredibly under powered, their small and unsophisticated population fled at the mere sight of the legendary Warrior army. The battle had been won before it even began.
Delighted at their effortless victory, the army broke formation and dispersed into a celebratory mob, immediately and efficiently tearing the settlement to the ground.
The new parking lot was paved less than a month later, during that same summer.
In an interview conducted shortly after the lot was paved, one Warrior said, “We have claimed a decisive victory. We marched forward and struck fear into the hearts of the enemy, and they fled like dogs.”
As he motioned towards Martinez and McKitrick, he added, “Soon enough, this will all belong to us.”
Jack Comiskey // Staff Writer
