Humanity has always been plagued by beasts, from the Chochin-Obaki to the Wendigos, however, humanity has long adapted to fight this never-ending threat with their own weapons and monsters.
Monster hunters.
They came in many different forms, samurai warred with the yokai, knights slayed giants and dragons, native American warriors dueled wendigos and skin-walkers and Egyptian priests and pharaohs fought mummies.
Human conflict was rare, as was advancement, humanity was naturally strong and endurable, and disease seldom took hold. Because of this, society only truly started advancing in the last 200 years, with feudal monarchies transforming into democratic states and communicating with each other more and more.
The constant presence of the now strong and well-taught monster hunters allows humanity to flourish, with new inventions almost monthly. The steam engine caused the first industrial revolution, and while some tried to exploit workers, when it became known that the negative feelings generated by abused workers caused even more monsters to appear, it was quickly shut down by the now international monster hunters.
As communication and cooperation became more and more necessary as humanity kept exponentially growing causing an increase in monsters, the international monster defense pact was signed between Ireland and Britain, the first of many, and soon to become the global monster defense pact, or GMDP.
The 2nd industrial revolution came when the cores of monsters were first burnt, while normally impervious, these cores could be burnt at an extremely high temperature and produce immense amounts of electricity, the larger the core the more it produced.
This caused another explosion in the monster hunter population, and subsequent mass deaths when those too young and idealistic to understand the profession properly died during the various tough and often brutal initiations, this, in turn, caused the passing of monster hunting school legislation, requiring each country to have at least one school dedicated to teaching monster hunting in a safe environment.
This only tempered the flow, and those who passed the school would still only have a 1 in 3 chance of making it through initiation into one of the specialized hunting groups, much better than the previous 1 in 10 chances.
The first satellite is launched, followed by the first person in space, followed closely after by the first person on the moon. International cooperation is at an all-time high, and while monsters still claim the lives of many on a daily basis most do not have to fear for their lives as they had to 200 years ago, indeed the horrors of the past were just that, past.
And then the Prothean archives on Mars are found, and nothing is quite the same ever again.
Basically, humanity has a lot of monsters to deal with, so much warfare never really happened, and cooperation was necessary to combat the monsters increasing as humanity does. Very likely to be continued, but until then it'll sit here in my snippets.
As always requests are welcome.
