NationStates

Maichuko wrote:

The Hobbesian Metaphysician wrote:So if you survive the whole apocalypse will any of you try, and start a new nation?

No point in resurrecting the U.S since it will be dead in a pandemic or whatever.

A new California republic would be nice.

And a nice New Roman empire? Ave, true to Caesar

Speaking of a nice new Roman Empire, in something like a zombie scenario, Constantinople during the reign of the Eastern Roman Empire would be perfect.

Those land walls.

United Marxist Nations wrote:Speaking of a nice new Roman Empire, in something like a zombie scenario, Constantinople during the reign of the Eastern Roman Empire would be perfect.

Those land walls.

Yeah. Can we have Greek fire, too?

It wouldn't work in a World War Z setting,though, due to the piling zombies.

Zeon Refounded wrote:

United Marxist Nations wrote:Speaking of a nice new Roman Empire, in something like a zombie scenario, Constantinople during the reign of the Eastern Roman Empire would be perfect.

Those land walls.

Yeah. Can we have Greek fire, too?

It wouldn't work in a World War Z setting,though, due to the piling zombies.

Eh, I think it would still work if you garrisoned the walls. The walls were nigh impregnable to assault when manned. The zombies would lose tens of thousands in the approach alone.

United Marxist Nations wrote:

Zeon Refounded wrote:
Yeah. Can we have Greek fire, too?

It wouldn't work in a World War Z setting,though, due to the piling zombies.

Eh, I think it would still work if you garrisoned the walls. The walls were nigh impregnable to assault when manned. The zombies would lose tens of thousands in the approach alone.

Na, World War Z zombies are stupidly OP. They'd wash over your walls like nothing.

Washington Resistance Army wrote:

United Marxist Nations wrote:Eh, I think it would still work if you garrisoned the walls. The walls were nigh impregnable to assault when manned. The zombies would lose tens of thousands in the approach alone.

Na, World War Z zombies are stupidly OP. They'd wash over your walls like nothing.

Well, it isn't just walls is the thing, you've got canals, chokepoints, everything. Constantinople was built to never fall.

Washington Resistance Army wrote:

United Marxist Nations wrote:Eh, I think it would still work if you garrisoned the walls. The walls were nigh impregnable to assault when manned. The zombies would lose tens of thousands in the approach alone.

Na, World War Z zombies are stupidly OP. They'd wash over your walls like nothing.

You mean the movie version, right? If so, ignore it, that was a flop and complete other direction than from what the book took.

United Marxist Nations wrote:

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Na, World War Z zombies are stupidly OP. They'd wash over your walls like nothing.

Well, it isn't just walls is the thing, you've got canals, chokepoints, everything. Constantinople was built to never fall.

Then it went all Titanic.

Zeon Refounded wrote:

United Marxist Nations wrote:Well, it isn't just walls is the thing, you've got canals, chokepoints, everything. Constantinople was built to never fall.

Then it went all Titanic.

Yeah, after 2 centuries of neglect of the walls, depopulation by Crusader guests, and bombardment by cannon.

I suggest looking at how many sieges it survived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... tantinople

I'll hang out on NS, launching cure missiles while zombies barge into my house and try to eat my brains, but I use a good old baseball bat.

United Marxist Nations wrote:

Zeon Refounded wrote:
Then it went all Titanic.

Yeah, after 2 centuries of neglect of the walls, depopulation by Crusader guests, and bombardment by cannon.

I suggest looking at how many sieges it survived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... tantinople

It's not the ones it survived that matter, it's the ones it didn't.

And are you trying to say rowdy knights are not the best house guests?

Well, I suppose I could scavenge at the local doctor's for some stimpaks.

The Hobbesian Metaphysician wrote:So if you survive the whole apocalypse will any of you try, and start a new nation?

I will forge a mighty Union, forged in atomic fire and blessed by the God-Lincoln, that old martyr Abraham who ruled a heaven of gold and plenty from aloft his marble throne, until he was betrayed by the fallen angel Davis, who betrayed him in jealously of his glory. Davis sent an army of wicked giants to tear heaven asunder, but God-Lincoln met him with an army of angels, led by the Archangels Ulysses and Sherman, and crushed the giants with hammers of flame and thunder.

United Marxist Nations wrote:

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Stick bayonet on machine gun, have spear, boom.

Huh, I really should have thought of that.

Nah, nah, nah

You need the proper bayonets these days. Not the puny M9 standard-issue knifes they call bayonets but the real bayonets that make men shiver in fear as the enemy enters your trench. Of course you wouldn't use the real bayonets like slashing implements but for stabbing the eyes or skulls of zombies.

Germanic Templars wrote:

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Na, World War Z zombies are stupidly OP. They'd wash over your walls like nothing.

You mean the movie version, right? If so, ignore it, that was a flop and complete other direction than from what the book took.

*spoilers*

You could actually see the change of director in the films after the plane crash. We went all action all around the world to save it to subdued stealth to save the world. Read me interesting stuff in this article

Washington Resistance Army wrote:

United Marxist Nations wrote:Eh, I think it would still work if you garrisoned the walls. The walls were nigh impregnable to assault when manned. The zombies would lose tens of thousands in the approach alone.

Na, film World War Z zombies are stupidly OP. They'd wash over your walls like nothing.

Fixed.
Don't confuse that piece of shit movie with the, much better, original book.

I've got lab experience so I could probably find a job when a global pandemic breaks out.

Esternial wrote:I've got lab experience so I could probably find a job when a global pandemic breaks out.

Imagine though being among the survivors of an alien invasion. The technological advancements you'd witness after we had kicked their asses and used their technology.

Alaizia wrote:

Esternial wrote:I've got lab experience so I could probably find a job when a global pandemic breaks out.

Imagine though being among the survivors of an alien invasion. The technological advancements you'd witness after we had kicked their asses and used their technology.

I'd probably be preparing mass-spec runs for all that foreign alien proteins until retirement. Sounds like fuuuuuuuuuuun.

Spaceship or leaving my corporeal form.
I don't think you can survive the "literal" end of the world in any other way.

As for the scenarios you posted - I will think about it once it happens, because who knows, maybe I'll be one of the first people to die!

Well I'm in Australia so zombie apocalypse I guess.

Shamhnan Insir wrote:Typical of human arrogance to say "the end of the world". Is it so difficult to think that we'll just run our course as a species and end up extinct like so many others?
Anything short of blowing the planet into literal bits would not be enough to stop another species from rising to dominance.


That aside, a zombie apocalypse, however bizarre and unlikely would be a hilarious way for our species to end.

I'd be pretty embarrassed if that's what killed us after all the time and effort we've put into thinking about zombies.

Why does everyone want a solar flare that destroys all electronics? I'd rather have a zombie apocalypse.

Come to Australia when the zombies come. We will drink beer and wait it out.

The Imperium Empires wrote:Come to Australia when the zombies come. We will drink beer and wait it out.

Australia's a bit far to go for most people.