Industrial Era

The Industrial Era was the 7,500 year era in Maruleegi history after the development of industrialisation but before widespread spaceflight was feasible. It was preceded by the Pre-Industrial Era and succeeded by the Interplanetary Era.

The industrial era is typically split into three periods:
 * Turbulent Period (~750 years) - The period of rapid growth that immediately followed the development of industrialisation. For the first time, the economy grew significantly faster than the population, massively increasing global wealth. However, the large growth led to new coordination problems that gave this period its name; towards the end of the turbulent period, climate change and bioterrorism seemed to threaten Marleeg civilisation as a whole.
 * Second Imperial Period (~1500 years) - The attempt to solve the coordination problems of the Turbulent period through genetic engineering lead to the accidental creation of a genetically enhanced ruling group running a centrally-planned global dictatorship. Over time, flaws in the genetic modification process lead to the capabilities of the ruling class to decline, and the central control is replaced with prediction markets until the regime suddenly and violently collapses.
 * Second Dark Period (~5000 years) - Supercorporations created to control the prediction markets set up during the late second imperial period to aid with governance run unchecked, claiming and defending territory whilst interfering with the operations of other corporations.