♟️ The Energy Meta-Game
History’s plot twists aren’t driven by kings or ideologies they’re in fact driven by energy. Every leap, fire, horse muscle, steam, oil, sunlight rewrites how we live, work, and govern. In Australia, this spans from Dreamtime to Microgrids.:
- 🔥 Dreamtime Fire: Aboriginal peoples used fire to hunt, shape country, and sustain communities. Control of the flame meant control of life, law, and ceremony.
- 🐎 Convicts & Horses: The First Fleet relied on muscle, horses, sails, and convict labour to survive. Life revolved around rules, labour, and navigating beaches as borders.
- ⚙️ Coal & Steam: Time becomes money
- 🛢️ Holdens & Electricity: Post-war suburbs, cars, and electricity relied on oil and power grids.
- 🌞 Renewables & Microgrids: Solar panels, wind farms, and microgrids let towns and rooftops generate and trade energy independently.
The rule never changes: find a denser, cleaner, more controllable energy gradient, and build your institutions around it before the next mob does it better.
