Since the Dutch Invasion of Australia, it became apparent to all statelets within Oceanyka that modernisation was necessary, giving rise to the Revolutionary Age. This was a period of profound change, particularly in the realm of the sciences, engineering and economics.
- The material needs of the Dutch War had led regional leaderships to realise that an army was going to get nowhere without a reliable source of arms and ammunition in a protracted conflict. Similarly, mass mobilisation as a strategy of war required an amount of military supplies orders of magnitude greater than prior armies had needed. Extraordinary amounts of money were spent in the development of Oceanyka's already existing arms industries, almost always state-owned. Industrial machines (normally water-powered) were sought after to improve production speed and reduce the number of workers needed at manufactories (thus freeing them up for military service).
- In 1788, the British First Fleet disembarked in the eastern coast of Oceanyka and founded Sydney. As the Revolutionary Wars waged on and the continent became increasingly depopulated, the importance of these colonies for trade and the production of certain goods increased. However, the British Empire gained an increasingly paternal role in continental affairs relating to commerce, eventually becoming the only major European trade partner of most statelets.
- Women and children began to enter the workforce at unprecedented rates as manpower depleted in the field, thus keeping wartime industries operating. Many of these continued working even beyond the Continental Collapse, though now for a salary rather than as industrial conscripts.
Economy activity in Oceanyka practically stopped as a result of the Continental Collapse, with most survivors returning largely to subsistence farming. However, at the same time British colonies were experiencing an unprecedented economic expansion, leading to the Economy of Colonial Oceanyka in the 1790s.