Famine Age

The Famine Age is the age which occurs in place of the Gourmet Age in the Green universe due to the nonexistence of Acacia and his family, culminating in the destruction of civilization as we know it as the Gourmet War reached its destructive climax.

The Gourmet War
Much like in the normal timeline the Famine Age was preceded by the Gourmet War, a century spanning war where every nation in the human world was out to destroy every other nation. The war began because of the discovery of the Gourmet Cells which lead to a food and weapons race, this weapon and food race enabled mankind to produce stronger weapons and soldiers to fight leading to an ever increasing conflict that consumed the entirety of the Human World.

At the very tail end period of the war some unknown country managed to engineer a bioweapon from gourmet world beast DNA creating a Chain Animal unrivaled in power. This creature now only known as the Final Beast proved too effective and singlehandedly ended the war by destroying its creators and a supermajority of humanity along with them.

The Final Beast
The Final Beast was a Chain Animal engineered by a nation whose name has been completely erased to time who ended the war by destroying civilization and setting back to the Stone Age. No currently alive human is aware of the true appearance of the Final Beast or of its exact whereabouts but people firmly believe that it is still alive somewhere, probably in the Gourmet World.

The State of Humanity
After the Final Beast was created and singlehandedly destroyed the majority of the human world the population of mankind was reduced into the triple digits and those strong enough to evade the end were forced to retreat into rural areas as the Final Beast could seemingly sense electricity and actively destroyed major technological centers. Due to this fact humanity has only recently began to grow in numbers but has still effectively lost almost all of its former technology.

The new members of humanity are mostly unaware of the truth of their situation as those who had seen the war with their own eyes are long dead and the ruins of humanity have been taken over by nature. Thankfully for mankind, the descendants of the survivors of the Gourmet War all seem to be in the possession of some amount of Gourmet Cells naturally since only the very strongest of humanity (those in possession of Gourmet Cells) managed to escape the onslaught of the Final Beast.

Hope however is not lost for humanity as tales speak not only of the great beast of calamity but also of the wonders of civilization past, such as libraries and computers. These pieces of history may be the key to jumpstart the recovery of humanity to the top of the food chain in the Human World.