What is torn asunder during the Civil War is soon rebuilt under powerful titans, while repeated panics drive hysterical populations into the arms of a new central bank.
The secretive scheme for the newly born central bank was a means to an end, for nine months later would come the Great War - creating a global superpower operating under the reigns of those who conceived it.
In the tumultuous 1920s-30s, depression set in; FDR seized power and gold; bank functions were nationalized; dollars rebuilt Europe; and the stage set for the next world war.
Major central bank gold transfers precipitate WWII, fueling tragedy and destruction, while cataclysm re-emerges as a world ordered and denominated in dollars.
People suffer under high interest rates, as Fed Chair Paul Volcker fights inflation; meanwhile, hints of a "Phoenix" global currency emerge as exuberant markets crack, and a "plunge protection team" works secretly to prop them up.
A deregulated derivatives market looms over the globalization era, making the next crisis inevitable. The tech bubble, terrorism, war and fraud foretell the demise of the dollar.
Digital currency emerges, and a choice becomes evident: a coin that represents absolute control via a central authority, or a decentralized coin whose value is volatile and increasingly pressured to be domesticated.
