The Obsidian Archives
Declassified dossiers on the micro-rebellions, maritime insurgencies, and sovereign maroons that disrupted the global supply chain of empire.
The Batavia Siege
The Sultan of Mataram launches two massive, desperate sieges against the heavily fortified Dutch East India Company headquarters in a bid to expel European corporate imperialism.
The War of Canudos
A wandering mystic builds a massive anarcho-communist utopia in the lethal Brazilian outback, forcing the government to send 8,000 troops and heavy artillery to exterminate them.
The Donghak Peasant Revolution
Tens of thousands of starving Korean peasants armed with bamboo spears rise up against their corrupt dynasty, accidentally igniting the First Sino-Japanese War.
The Green Corn Rebellion
Impoverished white, black, and indigenous tenant farmers in Oklahoma attempt to violently march on Washington D.C. to protest the World War I draft.
The Meermin Mutiny
Malagasy warriors seize control of a Dutch East India Company slave ship using the very weapons the arrogant crew forced them to clean.
The Morant Bay Rebellion
Led by a Baptist deacon, hundreds of Black peasants storm and burn a British colonial courthouse to protest systemic poverty and rigged justice, triggering a brutal massacre.
The New York Slave Revolt
Enslaved African warriors swear a blood oath, deliberately set a building on fire, and ambush the white colonists who run to put it out in the streets of lower Manhattan.
The San Miguel Slave Revolt
The very first recorded slave revolt in North America occurs when enslaved Africans burn down a Spanish colonial settlement and vanish to live with the indigenous tribes.
The Shimabara Rebellion
37,000 starving Christian peasants and masterless samurai defend a ruined cliffside castle against the entire Japanese Shogunate army.
The Taos Revolt
Pueblo Indigenous warriors and Mexican peasants assassinate the American governor and wage a desperate, bloody guerrilla war against the US occupation of New Mexico.
The Zanj Rebellion
Tens of thousands of enslaved East African laborers launch an insurgency in the salt marshes of Mesopotamia, crippling the Abbasid Caliphate for fourteen years.