Tales of a Global Era

The Builder, the Bean Grower, the Conservationist, and the Chief Information Officer are all characters who have used technology to make themselves powerful. They have built technologies for strategic advantage in warfare but have also used them in trade to dominate the societies in which they live.

But as time moves on, as the sophistication of civilizations develop they begin to realize the patterns and interconnectedness of their own histories, and that they can no longer afford to follow the same course of violence humankind has always followed. Or as a mysterious stranger warns them,

"They risk complete annihilation,"