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MoleNation/community name: The Continuation Project
Location: Central Europe: the Alps, Dinaric, and Balkan mountain ranges with small trading, mining, fishing and listening posts all over the world.
History: As climate change, wars, and other man-made calamities first started to wreak the Earth, several of the smaller central European states unprotected by their larger nominal allies began to make their preparations for the times to come. Seeing the flooding coming for them, the devastation of nuclear fallout, and so much more, they began to turn their mountains into veritable fortresses. Digging deep than had ever done before, entire cities had been built before they were connected with subterranean rails. Hydroponic farms were made, deep nuclear reactors, factories to make drones for labour. A whole two generations lived underground, until emerging in the late 2090s as their many remote listening posts detected that the world had been sufficiently restored that it would be worthwhile to investigate it.
Their arrival to the world had a mixed reaction. On the one hand, they created plastics, oils, and other materials in the their deep chemical laboratories that people all over the world found great value in. On the other they displaced many communities that settled in central Europe fleeing wastelands elsewhere, forcing them away from so-called sanitary corridors around their mountains. Indeed all over the world people get displaced as the ominous robots of the Continuation arrive and force them from their homes as they need minerals they might be sitting upon. However, with them being clever enough to not pick fights with anybody that isn't a minor polity, their trading vessels are common sights all over the world - at least in the territories that do not despise the burning of fuels.
Though they hide it, they traverse the world with one purpose: escaping Earth, and making a new home on the stars. Already they prepare to send rockets to clean the orbit of its Kessler debris, aiming to make jumping point to the moon, and then the Red planet.
Culture and beliefs: The continuation has a somewhat mixed culture, though each mountain range still closely resembles the old world peoples living nearest to it; Austrians and Magyars in the North, Balkaners in the South. They are a people that has for long been secluded from the rest of the world, and for so long not caring about what is outside of their mountains they came to gradually see anybody not born into the continuation as not worthy of their cares. That is a sizeable portion for why they so readily make new fuels to burn, having long written off the futures of outsiders as irrelevant to them. However with the passage of time and more and more connections being made with the exterior, there is some growing dissent to this as they see the outcomes of their trades with shady figures and their efforts that indirectly prevent the repairing of the earth upon the rest of humanity.
Science and technology: The Continuation has not only preserved the technologies of the old world, they have continued iterating upon them. Each person lives in relative luxury with drones doing most manual labour for the people in the deeps. But, a lot of their development has been in the fields of both aquatic and subterranean. Deep drilling vehicles, submarines to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor. There are two other main vectors of their development. First is replacing any derivates of exhaustible materials like fossil fuels and helium with synthetic analogues. The other is in the otherwise defunct space programs of Earth. Functional rockets undergo testing all the time, and plans are made and improved every day to venture to the skies.
Character names (optional): Feel free to share the names of any important characters
Location: Central Europe: the Alps, Dinaric, and Balkan mountain ranges with small trading, mining, fishing and listening posts all over the world.
History: As climate change, wars, and other man-made calamities first started to wreak the Earth, several of the smaller central European states unprotected by their larger nominal allies began to make their preparations for the times to come. Seeing the flooding coming for them, the devastation of nuclear fallout, and so much more, they began to turn their mountains into veritable fortresses. Digging deep than had ever done before, entire cities had been built before they were connected with subterranean rails. Hydroponic farms were made, deep nuclear reactors, factories to make drones for labour. A whole two generations lived underground, until emerging in the late 2090s as their many remote listening posts detected that the world had been sufficiently restored that it would be worthwhile to investigate it.
Their arrival to the world had a mixed reaction. On the one hand, they created plastics, oils, and other materials in the their deep chemical laboratories that people all over the world found great value in. On the other they displaced many communities that settled in central Europe fleeing wastelands elsewhere, forcing them away from so-called sanitary corridors around their mountains. Indeed all over the world people get displaced as the ominous robots of the Continuation arrive and force them from their homes as they need minerals they might be sitting upon. However, with them being clever enough to not pick fights with anybody that isn't a minor polity, their trading vessels are common sights all over the world - at least in the territories that do not despise the burning of fuels.
Though they hide it, they traverse the world with one purpose: escaping Earth, and making a new home on the stars. Already they prepare to send rockets to clean the orbit of its Kessler debris, aiming to make jumping point to the moon, and then the Red planet.
Culture and beliefs: The continuation has a somewhat mixed culture, though each mountain range still closely resembles the old world peoples living nearest to it; Austrians and Magyars in the North, Balkaners in the South. They are a people that has for long been secluded from the rest of the world, and for so long not caring about what is outside of their mountains they came to gradually see anybody not born into the continuation as not worthy of their cares. That is a sizeable portion for why they so readily make new fuels to burn, having long written off the futures of outsiders as irrelevant to them. However with the passage of time and more and more connections being made with the exterior, there is some growing dissent to this as they see the outcomes of their trades with shady figures and their efforts that indirectly prevent the repairing of the earth upon the rest of humanity.
Science and technology: The Continuation has not only preserved the technologies of the old world, they have continued iterating upon them. Each person lives in relative luxury with drones doing most manual labour for the people in the deeps. But, a lot of their development has been in the fields of both aquatic and subterranean. Deep drilling vehicles, submarines to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor. There are two other main vectors of their development. First is replacing any derivates of exhaustible materials like fossil fuels and helium with synthetic analogues. The other is in the otherwise defunct space programs of Earth. Functional rockets undergo testing all the time, and plans are made and improved every day to venture to the skies.
Character names (optional): Feel free to share the names of any important characters
