Editing The Wyzard Setting Essays (section)

=== 7. The Decapitation ===
The leaders of the Thracian Combines attempted to make treaty with the various Lunar civilizations, just as they had done to the monstrous kingdoms that had existed on the terrestrial sphere. For whatever reason, the negotiations fell through, and ended in several nights of blood and fire. When the smoke cleared, the Thracian civilization came apart at the seams. They had always kept their leadership and industrial base centralized, to maintain their hegemony. Unfortunately, that meant it was all destroyed by the swarm of meteorites that turned their capital city into a morass of smoking, flooded craters.  Bereft of leadership, barbarians and lesser kingdoms raided and destroyed the remaining centers of Thracian power.  Their society disintegrated, and the lore of operating their great machines and mysterious facilities became lost.