User blog comment:Aptos/Era 2 Peridot-Changing Homeworld as we know it/@comment-9434717-20160731011949

This kind of reminds me a bit of 16th-17th century UK. First, they lose "The Rebellion", losing a large amount of their overseas colonies(Except instead of losing one colony over one rebellion, they lose multiple over multiple rebellions.) Then, they start rapidly teching up, introducing the Industrial Revolution on the world. However, due to the new machines that make manual labor unnecesary, many citizens lose jobs and make the drop from first-class to second and third-class establishments, thus losing the rescources to live on in a new world. The last part is a bit sketchy, of course, but I think it fits in enough.

Also a(n? Could never figure that out) RP based on this would be nice.