post_apocalypse_story/notes/setting.txt

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At one point, this was my idea for a setting. I don't like all aspects of it
so this is subject to change where it hasn't already. I might update this
to reflect the current setting when I have real information to fill in.
- post apocalypse scenario
- relatively slow, gradual downfall of civilization - not a fast
wipe out event
- ppl had time to prepare
- humanity discovers a new way to generate nuclear power some time in
the 80s
- upsides:
- moar powar
- less waste
- comparatively straight-forward to get going
- downsides:
- absolutely needs to be maintained well
- horrible accidents
- huge explosions
- scatter toxic globs of radioactive chemical sludge
- areas where this stuff lands turn into wasteland for centuries
or millennia
- release some toxic gas that decays slowly over time
- power plants of this kind are built everywhere
- as accidents happen, ppl cry for alternatives but nobody does anything
about it bc its not economically viable
- a bunch of wars happen and a few of the power plants blow up
- conventional wars, no MAD scenario
- areas are abandoned causing civil wars in other locations due to
refugee crisis
- in the chaos, more power plants blow up making it difficult to survive
at the surface due to contaminated atmosphere
- the rest of civilization has to wind down and disappears
- story takes place roughly 110 years after the apocalypse
- story starts on Tue, 2106-06-01
- just enough time for no living memory of the "old world" to survive
- slight retro-futurism
- for the most part, technology is stuck in the 80s or 90s, but there
are some key differences
- the underground city has only electric cars
- aforementioned nuclear power plants
- successful cryogenic preservation
- computing is different
- home computers are rare - they are similar to early to mid 90s
machines but have big boy 8" floppy drives
- business computers are mostly minicomputers or larger
- they are actually being used for all sorts of tasks like ordering
supplies or to check inventory etc
- computing is dominated by a UNIX-like operating system (INUX lol)