After the great fall of the Browserian-Giant (2152), small enclaves of Operating Systems roamed the fallen plane. There was Ubuntu, a new safe-heaven.
from /r/vexillology Top comment: After the great fall of the Browserian-Giant (2152 CE), the small, enclaves of Operating Systems roamed the fallen plane. First, there was Ubuntu, a safe-heaven, promising a land free of the authoritarian empires of Old. A new kind of land without taxation and true representation of their people, no more kings of long ago. People didn't make a lot of lore, so I went ahead and made some assumptions. Didn't decide who won the great battle, but did make a couple of logical guesses. If upvotes were army sizes in the thousands: Chrome: 3,400,000 (\~3400 upvotes) Firefox: 2,600,000 (\~2600 upvotes) Safari: 988,000 (\~988 upvotes) Opera: 635,000 (\~635 upvotes) Internet explore: 182,000 (\~182 upvotes) Palemoon: 170,000 (\~170 upvotes) Tor: 167,000 (\~167 upvotes) In the comments (if we take this as canon) people seemed very tribalist and seeing that there were no allyship flags we can take it everyone was fighting for their motherland. Maybe pale moon and internet explore as some attempt, but this just seems unlikely of the Palemoon people. So, it's basically a battle between Chrome and Firefox, and some smaller, still interesting invasion of the smaller browsers. Also, a thought on Tor: Tor should last a bit longer than even some of the armies of larger numbers *(Safari and Opera)*, because their users are usually more tech-savvy, i.e. "elite fighter". Sort of like Sparta's elite fighters, beating far larger armies. So taking this approach, it would make sense to assume one of three things would happen: \* Firefox and Chrome, would have a situation similar to to the real world cold war, being two remaining superpowers. (Bit boring, but still a bunch of interesting battles) \* Firefox and Chromes war would end in the disastrous ending, *your classic "Ad-block winter."* \* No matter who technically wins all the problems of forced empires would arise, disobedient browsers, people, etc. So even if Chrome or Firefox defeats the others, their fall would only be a couple of decades afterward. So, this lore assumes a battle happens, which either lasts 114 years ending in a cold war type disaster. Or all the problems of forced empire, with a battle lasting about 15-25 years and the problems of forced empire unraveling over 80 to 90 years. For me, it makes sense to choose chrome as the winner, *but I don't want to be the guy to pick all the lore*, since Chrome has a larger army. This also assumes the winner doesn’t just outright kill all the other browserian people. But assuming Chrome wins, interesting lore would be the Chromian people after the empire collapses, the chromian people would live as a small enclave of people, now the “*ChromeOS*”. With a small, group of people, constantly looking back to their mightier days. Trying to keep this ball rolling and interested to see some OS flags. Also, hope u/TheCygnusLoop is cool with me hijack this lore a bit...