《Perpetuum》游戏背景，目前只翻译了一部分。
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在20世纪，人们征服了地球。于此同时，科学的发展和互联网的发明等改变了人们的生活，医学的信息技术的支持下长足发展，空间技术的发明。人们用最先进发科学技术，提升了我们自己的生理和思维的界限，带来了过去无法预料的技术成就时代。通信和货物运输变的越来越快。这就是全球化的摇篮。
在世纪初的几十年里，全球各国开始了类似冷战的太空竞赛，新的机遇刺激着各个国家。俄罗斯出于战略考虑加入了欧盟的太空计划。原本在英文国家中处于垄断地位的太空技术也在亚洲地区也变得同样繁荣。国际竞争扩大到了地球外。
直到2049年，在太空技术上有了重大发现，当人们第一次踏上火星时。在30年内，几个自给自足的研究站建立在这个红色的星球。太空殖民的下一个里程碑是在月球建立了巨大的气矿采集站和一些稀有矿山的采集站。数以百计的运输线路建立在地球和殖民星球之间，在2140年时，空间站达到了30座。
太空扩展正在太阳系中缓慢而稳定的发展。同时，地球社会正经历着翻天覆地的改变。地球开始无法满足越来越多的人口产生的需求，地球已经达到承受的极限。公司和权力部门之间的界限也越来越模糊。腐败在发展中国家使得越来越多的国有企业沦为私人所有。私人资本越来越肆无忌惮的出现在政府投资中，严重的消减了国家对人民的影响力。
失去功能的政府都面临着一个新的危机：能源危机。不可再生的能源的价格持续飙升，能源方面的新技术也见效不大。一场新的全球战争不可避免。那些没有能源的国家开始向囤积能源的国家发起战争。
The war ended quickly, with the worldwide economic crisis accounting for more destruction than bombs. Before any of the power states could have won the war, the crisis induced by quick disinvestments broke the arrogant and bloated governments. The crisis of traditional nation states consummated at the end of the war, when the governmental agencies became increasingly unable to provide the social security their people were accustomed to, and thus the sudden drop of the living standards of globalization put an end to governments as such.
During the war, the multinational giant corporations devoured every key area already lost to the governments. A mere 100 years earlier, political extremes chanting their radical programs would have filled the void in power, but this changed completely by the 22nd century. These multinational corporations monopolized every element of liberal parliamentary governing, including the three branches of power, the private sector, and the press that controls public morale.
The driving force of global economy is the consumer society, the restoration of which became the primary goal of the mega corporations. These corporate giants who ruled the economy gained universal support from the public for their grand, highly resource-demanding investments as they stabilized the standards of living. The domination of heavy industry was overtaken by the centers of technological innovation and by the developing space infrastructure.
