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