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  • 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 (more? :p)
        • 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 it’s 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)