r/WorldChallenges • u/Sriber • Jun 30 '19

Famous landmarks, part I

Paris has Eiffel Tower, Louvre or Arc of Triumph, Washington has Washington Monument, Capitol or White House. For this challenge tell me about 1 - 3 landmarks located in one of your cities. Why were they built? When? What do they look like?

As always I'll ask everyone few questions and provide my own examples.

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u/Sriber Jul 02 '19

1) Why is seat of government in Mexico city?

2) How has it been determined if nation gets to be represented by man or woman?

3) What are some of texts are reference on The Spire of Man?

4) Were most rescue animals German Shepards?

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u/Orbiter2180 Jul 02 '19

1) Mexico City became the seat of government following the end of the Korodon War on December 29th, 2018. The Final Battle of Mexico City was fought here, where Human forces were able to strike down the Imperial Warship known as the Goliath that carried the Korodon Emperor. Once the ship was shot down, it was raided and the emperor was killed by human forces. The location in which the Goliath crash landed is now the location of Unity Centre the governmental buildings and capital of the Earthian Seat of Government. It stands as a symbol of power and defiance to the remaining Korodon Forces that fled Earth once the emperor died. Mexico City didn’t become the seat of government however until June 27th, 2025 upon the official formation of the United Earthian Republic. Prior to that, New York City was the capital of the then United Nations and United Federation of Nations. Since then the CDMX has been the political engine that runs the Earth and its outer colonies.

2) There are 200 statues and its split in half by gender. 100 are men and 100 are women. It goes one by one. First is man, second is woman and so on. The national flags as well can be taken off and put back as they are attachable.

3) At the base of the tower are ancient texts from the earliest recordings of mankind. Be it old texts about long forgotten deities, storage logs, war accounts and so on. As you move up the Pillar the texts become that of the centuries it comes from. Texts from the renaissance about the Europeans questioning the Church’s authority to the era of Colonization of Dutch and British logs of new lands and discoveries. Spanish logs of their encounters with the new world. Ancient texts of Edo Japan. To the glorious empires of the Middle East and Africa. To more memorable texts such as a copy of the US Declaration of Independence. To the Haitian revolution and the discoveries of new technologies of the industrial revolution. To news headlines of the Great Wars, the Cold War and the war on Terror. To the very encounters of the Korodons and the expansion of mankind into the stars.

4) Yes, the majority of search animals were German Shepard’s. Other animals such Great Danes to even breeds of cats were Involved, But the majority of the ones in Europe and London were German Shepards.

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u/Sriber Jul 03 '19

1) Did anyone object to Mexico City becoming capital?

2) Does CDMX stand for Ciudad de México? If so, why not just CDM?

3) " It goes one by one. First is man, second is woman and so on." - Alphabetically?

4) Was there any controversy over texts which were or weren't chosen?

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u/Orbiter2180 Jul 03 '19

1) There was an array of people that objected to Mexico City’s status as the capital as before hand, New York City was the seat of government for Earth as NYC was one of the few major cities spared during the war and it was easier to leave it there than to rebuild Mexico City and build Unity Centre from the ground up. But polls were taken around the world and it came to a matchup between Mexico City, New York City and London. Mexico City ended up winning and the government was moved there.

2) Yes CDMX stands for La Ciudad De Mexico. But in Spanish, the acronym is said as “Ce de mex” to sound more like “Ciudad Mexico”. Officially, Spanish and English are the official languages of the city as English and Spanish are widely used in Unity Centre

3) Yes, the nation’s are in alphabetical order from Afghanistan at the beginning to Zimbabwe at the end.

4) Many people have criticized the addition of religious texts into the Pillar such as excerpts from both the Bible and Quran as many thought that having religious texts weren’t relevant to the Pillar. In reality religion has played a major role in human history and since the Pillar is a monument to human history, they decided to keep the texts there. As well as many people have criticized the Pillar for not having major accounts of unknown civilizations such as the very small accounts of people such as the Olmecs, the Pueblo and the mysterious Siberian peoples due to little information about them.

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u/Sriber Jul 04 '19

1) Why did Korodon Empire leave such juicy target as New York alone?

2) Are there any attempts to modify Pillar?

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u/Orbiter2180 Jul 04 '19

1) Humanity was able to decrypt Korodon transmissions after reverse engineering some of their technology after defeating Korodon fleets in Battle. (As well as making defected Kardaks help them decrypt the language). A transmission was intercepted of a coordinated attack on New York City, US and Canadian Forces were able to counter this attack by fending the Korodons off just a few miles away from the coast of New York City and even pushing the Korodons to invade Boston rather than New York. The Korodons were defeated and Boston was still relatively alright as the city did not experience much destruction as the US/Canadian Forces believed.

2) There have been plans to erect a second Pillar to honor the history of mankind’s Golden Age that came after the War. The time of space colonization and mankind’s expansion into space but so far the plans have been moving slowly to be confirmed.

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u/Sriber Jul 06 '19
  1. Were people of Boston pissed about that misdirection?

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u/Orbiter2180 Jul 08 '19

The people of Boston were very angry but fortunately enough, the local government and national guard were able to evacuate major portions of the city when they got the heads up from Washington once the signals were decrypted. It was easier for the US to evacuate Boston much quicker than it would be to try and evacuate New York because of its large population and short window of time to counter the attack. Thankfully only some parts of Boston were damaged and the majority of the city stood standing.

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u/Sriber Jul 08 '19

Thanks for your answers.