It is now the year of 2076. Most of the world is now a wasteland. Places that thrived with life are now uninhabited by any person, plant or animal that used to live and grow there. In the year of 2023, nuclear bombs rained down in a war that had engulfed the planet. The development of the atomic bomb brought fire and a terrible, terrible knowledge to mankind. A knowledge for which the final price was....near extinction.
When The United States still existed, there were powers in those days. Russia and China, Japan and Australia and the United Kingdom and all of them on and on. But they are all gone now. Gone, along with most of mankind. Gone, because of the ghastly knowledge that came from the creation of the nuclear bombs.
They called World War 1 the big one. The war to end all wars. The irony of that was, of course, they had no idea what was awaiting them. Mankind fell beneath the one enemy humans were helpless to before. Other humans. Citizens took shelter where ever they could: sewers, subway stations, drainage centers, storm drains.
The initial bombings were the results of terrorists acting outside government mandates. No one wanted war but retaliation was the only possible response. It all spiraled out of control. Millions upon millions of innocent people died as a result of the bombs. The atmosphere was contaminated from the pollutants and ash released by a historically unprecedented amount of fires after the war from the neglect of nuclear and chemical factories and warehouses, to the burning cities.
Parts of Earth were drastically cooled over the course of the war, with the most likely cause being the ash in the air and other pollutants, blocking out the heat of the sun. The collapse of global civilization made it impossible to ascertain the full extent of the damage brought by the nukes. From space there were very clear signs of a global catastrophe. Parts of Western Europe including Spain, France, Britain and Russia received nuclear blasts. Asia and the Middle East are now encased under ice from the nuclear winter. Much of Antarctica's ice sheet is blackened and most of the world's oceans are now a tinted green from the high levels of radiation. The few living things, people or animals that survived the bombings were now forced to live in this new wasteland where all pre-war plant life had died from either the explosions or from the intense radiation.
Now continue your journey through this hellish world
