The new faith in the power of invention would extend to the spies and agents of the empires as each grew even more threatened by the possibility of being superseded by the innovations of the others. The theft of plans, prototypes and even the kidnapping of the inventors themselves soon became rampant. Soon, every field of academic pursuits were being asked to support the new invention industry. Such an intensity of human effort is bound to produce not only the intended result, but a variety of secondary benefits. Soon the markets were filled with a variety of new gadgetry that could trace their germ to the design rooms of the war offices.		The civility of these solutions in preventing open warfare between the great powers would only be out done by the viscousness of the colonial wars that were soon to come. With the large forces stationed in the colonies and the inability to resolve diplomatic issue with the traditional threats of European war, the temptation to use colonial wars to pursue their strategic goals proved too tempting to the colonial powers to avoid. Without the public outcry or disruption and destruction traditionally resulting from war, the imperial masters felt at liberty to pursue war across the globe.