WAR ( from what remember I've read.. the books do exist…Prob about 2-3 books worth in this story alone)
Why have we gone to war for centuries?…Simple answer…. No war has ever been started by humans… When the Commander Anu/Allah ruled, there was NO war… but he died and the shit began after that.
."The gods" are argumentative, pissy, squabbling arseholes, in among themselves… just look at all monarchies… always fighting over succession and the right to "govern over" someone…. Humans just don't give a fuck… we know we are all equal, with no one above the other…and it pisses us off, to see someone "lording" over another.
So the gods/startrek crew had very specific rules of engagement… One of them being, not fuck with each other ( no fighting among the crew)… but that left a small window open for some shenanigans… Technically you can't fight each other…but… what if you could use your population against a rival???….hmmmmm…. it didn't take much thinking before they put some plans in action, to piss off their rivals. Using guess who…humans… Small skirmishes, turned to full out unbridled wars, in not that much time at all…
The wars gained in ferocity, because now the …"gods/squabbling children"…decided, fuck it… lets go all in and start arming the armies with better weapons…. and…. fuck it, we can now bomb and strafe the shit out of our enemies armies now (as long as we don't shoot each other)…woo hooo….
Shits getting really real…lol… Whole armies can disappear in the blink of an eye now… Its recorded all around the world, from different perspectives… Death destruction, armies vaporized etc… A lot of planes and bombs etc…. Every religion has something that reins in the sky… comes from the sky… fly's in the sky… as well as other natural phenomena.
Some craft left vapor trails and some craft didn't… The Military commander had jets… most of the others had things that float and jets…lol…(science officer).
So here we have to bring a few names in…Enki (science officer)…and…Enlil (military commander)… 2 sort of half brothers.. different parents …yeah I should be able to remember family tree, have it somewhere but it just doesn't matter… the truth will be revealed… and it's their bullshit, not ours.
To expand upon the rival a little further, between Enki and Enlil…. we start to get into the creation story… That can be gone into with detail, but for now, lets just say ….
That the person responsible for creating us a little smarter…than the military commander wanted… was Enki…lol… Enlil didn't like that for many reasons, and they are well documented too.
So there's a little friction starting towards humanity, for no good reason at all.
So that's a quick run down of the wars before the flood… Escalating violence and bloodshed over centuries, " fighting in the name of gods"… because we were diligent workers that believed in our "local" god… with escalating tensions between warring factions, that ended in a button being pressed.on a very old bomb… the weapons used up to that stage had been developed here by Enki… and were lethal, but not world ending…. BUT…they did bring ordinance with them from their home world… it came with them on their space ship and was truly awesome in destructive ability… when you cross space, it's not good to find yourself with a knife, in a gun fight.
Long story short… someone got access to the big nuke and pressed the button… No one knew the destructive power it had been made to deliver… The reasons are varied and many as to why it lead to what happened… but… Who cares, it happened…..Those were the "pre flood wars"…
Prob about 3-4 books worth in this story alone.