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Vladimir Manyuhin's post-apocalyptic rendering of the Lincoln Memorial.
TL;DR Summary:
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Vladimir Manyuhin's post-apocalyptic rendering of the Lincoln Memorial.
TL;DR Summary:
- Earth has undergone a nuclear apocalypse following a great chaos in the 21st and 22nd centuries that depopulated much of the planet and set it back to a new dark age
- Hundreds of years later, civilization exists, but as isolated communities focused on subsistence, and some kingdoms of cobbled-together tech attempting for trade.
- It's a world lit only by fire - In all, the tech level is pre-industrial -- while useful technological knowledge for survival survives in some aspect, the means of manufacturing has devolved. Also, resource depletion makes redevelopment of technology much, much harder.
- That means electronics and things that are generally made with advanced industry do not exist. Blacksmithing, for example, has made a comeback.
- Humanity continues, though at a greatly reduced population level with a much reduced life expectancy due to a lack of modern medicine.
- And then the aliens invade, with advanced weaponry and tech, intent on goals they have not explained, using robotic foot soldiers to do their bidding.
- The characters are part of the same region; Independence, Missouri -- not the pre-apocalypse town, more like a community built on the bones, at the intersection of two rivers. Some of the characters can be part of the ruling class, the underclass or even, from further west, part of a tribal horde of some sort -- nomads with even less tech than the 'civilized' folk.
- Advanced Standards
- Please post the character sheets in the Character Sheet Thread.
- Important: We need to discuss social, political and religious issues such as the conflict between various cultures within the Midwest, notably tribal types (maybe patterned off of Native American tribes, but perhaps also descended from various other groups), religious groups vs. secular scholars, urban vs. rural and so forth. This can be very rich and interesting...and also, in the face of an invasion by outsiders, the politics are going to be a sticking point. Let's develop this together. ;)
- Hundreds of years later, civilization exists, but as isolated communities focused on subsistence, and some kingdoms of cobbled-together tech attempting for trade.
- It's a world lit only by fire - In all, the tech level is pre-industrial -- while useful technological knowledge for survival survives in some aspect, the means of manufacturing has devolved. Also, resource depletion makes redevelopment of technology much, much harder.
- That means electronics and things that are generally made with advanced industry do not exist. Blacksmithing, for example, has made a comeback.
- Humanity continues, though at a greatly reduced population level with a much reduced life expectancy due to a lack of modern medicine.
- And then the aliens invade, with advanced weaponry and tech, intent on goals they have not explained, using robotic foot soldiers to do their bidding.
- The characters are part of the same region; Independence, Missouri -- not the pre-apocalypse town, more like a community built on the bones, at the intersection of two rivers. Some of the characters can be part of the ruling class, the underclass or even, from further west, part of a tribal horde of some sort -- nomads with even less tech than the 'civilized' folk.
- Advanced Standards
- Please post the character sheets in the Character Sheet Thread.
- Important: We need to discuss social, political and religious issues such as the conflict between various cultures within the Midwest, notably tribal types (maybe patterned off of Native American tribes, but perhaps also descended from various other groups), religious groups vs. secular scholars, urban vs. rural and so forth. This can be very rich and interesting...and also, in the face of an invasion by outsiders, the politics are going to be a sticking point. Let's develop this together. ;)
