Emmzee
September 24th, 2007, 05:22 PM
Only a bit of what I've been cooking up for the past 2 years.
Copyright (c) 2007 ME.
It is an undisclosed number of years in the future. Most technologies are roughly what they are today. It is roughly ten years after a kind of nuclear holocaust happened, between multiple countries with nukes in Asia, Europe, and North America. India "accidentally" launched a medium-range ICBM at Pakistan, prompting Pakistan to nuke India in retaliation. Israel took this as an opportunity to launch several missiles into Pakistan, destroying over half of the country. Saudi Arabia, which had secretly bought several Cold-War era missiles from Russia in the late nineties as part of a covert military buildup, attacked Israel, effectively wiping it off the face of the Earth. America, England and France responded in force, launching a massive conventional war against Saudi Arabia. With all these forces in the Middle East, China decided to make its move and invade the US. Hawaii quickly fell, and Chinese operatives in California detonated several tactical nukes along the San Andreas fault, plunging part of California into the sea with the massive earthquakes that ensued, resulting in massive civilian casualties and several west-coast nuclear plants falling into the sea, contaminating a large part of the Pacific ocean with nuclear waste. Russia, rich with oil sales from the Arctic to the US, did not want to lose a trading partner and coordinated a massive ground retaliation on China's northwest border, while simultaneously detonating tactical nukes in several major Chinese ports, crippling them economically. China retaliated by launching dozens of long-range ICBMs, completely razing Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, several other Russian cities, and turning three-quarters of Siberia into a nuclear wasteland. In the end, all major nations on Earth were severely crippled both financially and politically. Roughly five years later, nuclear winter started to set in. Governments crumbled, and despots ruled various areas of North America. Nuclear Fallout in the Pacific Northwest turned some people into mutants, most with violent tendencies. Most highways are still intact, making travel not too difficult, if one can brave the cold and snow. Cars that still worked (EMP from the nukes having wiped out most electronics in affected areas) were outfitted with armor plating and equipment designed to withstand the cold. Cities still standing, with low fallout levels, were turned into heavily armored and armed "havens", which are places where people can live in relative safety, albeit controlled by despots. In havens, food is grown hydroponically in underground greenhouses, while most power is provided by geothermic or wind power. Other, less fortified cites, are used as trading outposts. The wasteland outside of the havens is inhabited by two kinds of people, not counting the mutants: Raiders and Drifters. Drifters are generally peaceful, scavenging for things to trade and trying to stay alive. Raiders participate in activities from slaving to pillaging trading posts and ambushing travelers. Most drifters refuse to live in havens, or are rejected by society (exiled, as is most often the case). Most drifters believe somewhere in North America there is a place not beset by nuclear winter, a place they call "Paradise."
That's the backstory, or what I have so far. I've been working on and off for the past 2 years on this.
Copyright (c) 2007 ME.
It is an undisclosed number of years in the future. Most technologies are roughly what they are today. It is roughly ten years after a kind of nuclear holocaust happened, between multiple countries with nukes in Asia, Europe, and North America. India "accidentally" launched a medium-range ICBM at Pakistan, prompting Pakistan to nuke India in retaliation. Israel took this as an opportunity to launch several missiles into Pakistan, destroying over half of the country. Saudi Arabia, which had secretly bought several Cold-War era missiles from Russia in the late nineties as part of a covert military buildup, attacked Israel, effectively wiping it off the face of the Earth. America, England and France responded in force, launching a massive conventional war against Saudi Arabia. With all these forces in the Middle East, China decided to make its move and invade the US. Hawaii quickly fell, and Chinese operatives in California detonated several tactical nukes along the San Andreas fault, plunging part of California into the sea with the massive earthquakes that ensued, resulting in massive civilian casualties and several west-coast nuclear plants falling into the sea, contaminating a large part of the Pacific ocean with nuclear waste. Russia, rich with oil sales from the Arctic to the US, did not want to lose a trading partner and coordinated a massive ground retaliation on China's northwest border, while simultaneously detonating tactical nukes in several major Chinese ports, crippling them economically. China retaliated by launching dozens of long-range ICBMs, completely razing Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, several other Russian cities, and turning three-quarters of Siberia into a nuclear wasteland. In the end, all major nations on Earth were severely crippled both financially and politically. Roughly five years later, nuclear winter started to set in. Governments crumbled, and despots ruled various areas of North America. Nuclear Fallout in the Pacific Northwest turned some people into mutants, most with violent tendencies. Most highways are still intact, making travel not too difficult, if one can brave the cold and snow. Cars that still worked (EMP from the nukes having wiped out most electronics in affected areas) were outfitted with armor plating and equipment designed to withstand the cold. Cities still standing, with low fallout levels, were turned into heavily armored and armed "havens", which are places where people can live in relative safety, albeit controlled by despots. In havens, food is grown hydroponically in underground greenhouses, while most power is provided by geothermic or wind power. Other, less fortified cites, are used as trading outposts. The wasteland outside of the havens is inhabited by two kinds of people, not counting the mutants: Raiders and Drifters. Drifters are generally peaceful, scavenging for things to trade and trying to stay alive. Raiders participate in activities from slaving to pillaging trading posts and ambushing travelers. Most drifters refuse to live in havens, or are rejected by society (exiled, as is most often the case). Most drifters believe somewhere in North America there is a place not beset by nuclear winter, a place they call "Paradise."
That's the backstory, or what I have so far. I've been working on and off for the past 2 years on this.