Heretic's Post Apocalypse Goodness World

[Heretic]

More Brainwaves! This time, I put in the aftermath of nukes and civilization collapse!


Overview
In 2012, some dumbasses scared to death about the Mayan Calender decided to launch nukes all over the dumb place. Dumb, right? I mean, if you are scared of the End of the World, wouldn't it be better NOT to cause it? Anyway..

So yeah. But before that nuke slugfest, a secret society called The Project, somehow knowing dumbasses would launch nukes (hell, maybe it was all part of their nefarious plan!) secretly sent a massive cryogenic colony ship up behind the dark side of the moon, in hopes that when the world goes to hell, the ship, called GOD (Genesis Orbital Device) and its AI will land on a suitable area for life to renew again. After a century of inactivity, GOD came to life and spaced its way back to Earth. Landing in the untouched Klamath Mountains of California, the frozen transhumans became unfrozen and went out to start civilization anew...

...and encountered a mutant, who wore only a loincloth made from old newspapers. It seemed like the chaos and the nukes didn't finish off the human race, as the Project was hoping. Sure, large populations were wiped out, but many places were untouched, albeit getting a few doses of radiation and crazy strands of various diseases, and in 30 years, Earth wasn't so human exclusive anymore. There were the mutants,the descendants of people who got radiation sicknesses, and with the help of natural selection, only the mutants with beneficial mutations survived. Another faction were the Greys, aliens from Area 51 who got out of their imprisonment once the US government collapsed. Quite enigmatic, but they do enjoy a nice cup of coffee. And finally, the Project Transhumans themselves, who declared themselves The Genesis People, with their longevity, high intelligence, psychic powers, and who knows what.

Despite it all, civilization survived, and in the Eastern part of the former USA up to the Great Lakes is the Patriotic Republic of America, the remnants of the former USA bent on getting its former territories back. Down in Mexico and in the south of the US, various tribes and warbands of marauders terrorize the settlements there, who try to just get by. In North Dakota and the Midwest, it's a battlefield for resources as the Mideast and its slob of various polities that come and goes, and the Pacific Coast, where a secretive organization called the Cybermen take headquarters in Silicon Valley, wreck it out. The poor powerless people there are caught in the crossfire as they are either killed, enslaved, or drafted into one army or another to die in battle. But the fragile shanty towns and farms all over the US aren't completely powerless. The Lawbringers, groups or individuals of vigilantes wander the globe, fighting injustice wherever it is, unaffiliated with any polity, caring only for justice and goodness.




The Association for Metahuman Equality
The effects of radiation and diseases mixed weren't pretty. People losing hair, people having strange skins, people bloating, people having a longer neck, people just looking freaky. Freaks, as they were called during the early days of Post Apocalypse. But as the more savage and weak ones died off, mutants became a part of life for many, sometimes helping out. And yet, they were still called freaks and scum, and treated as such. So, when well-educated mutants got fed up with this treatment, they banded together near a basin in Utah and declared the formation of the Association for Metahuman Equiality. This group is concerned about the well-being of mutants everywhere, stating that all other non-human races out there have more advantages than the mutant, who is hunted down like vermin. The AME sends out agents to bring the well-being of mutants, and in this lawless time, it usually means assassinations, threats, and sometimes all out war against anti-mutan...ahem, anti-metahuman nations, having their own private army. The AME provides educational, job, health, and other services to mutants all over, sometimes bringing in other humanoid types or even humans under their arms.

The Greys
Roswell, New Mexico, 1946. A circular disk crashed through the desert. The military came in and found two aliens, one dead, one alive. Bringing them back to a secret location, the military did an autopsy on the dead one, while they confined the alive one in a safety cell. When the alien came to, and after a few misunderstandings, he told them that he came from a planet that has been watching the humans for quite some time. Despite pressure and even torture such as anal probes, the alien refused to give out technological advancements, stating that it went against his organization's philosophy, though he did put touches on the Frisbee design. Throughout the years, grey rescuers tried and failed to get their companion, sometimes crashing themselves due to some mysterious reasons, allowing the US and other nations to get their hands on alien technology. Soon, the alien race stopped the rescue attempt as it just gave the humans more and more unearned goodies. The surviving aliens were forced into cryogenic capsules, the equipment supplied by The Project, a secret organization that sent the Genesis People behind the room for the world to end. But, before the Project could do unthinkable things to the aliens, dumbasses blew the world up before the Project. The US government withdrew from Area 51 and other places in order to recuperate and turn into the Patriotic Republic of America. The greys slowly thawed and when they realized what the dumb humans did to their own planet, decided to make Area 51 their headquarters, with all its goodies and room space. They set to work on rebuilding the installations in Area 51, with its automated turrets, blast doors, ID clearance, hovering chairs, and added their own touches. Once done, the greys decided that with communications with their mother ship gone and the chances of rescue are slim, they can pursue their own agendas...

The Genesis Children
Bred in artificial incubators, the Genesis Children was the focal point for The Project, the means to the core goal, a perfect race that is much more than the feeble humans that exist. And once full grown and trained in secret educational bases, the Genesis Children were sent into hibernation in a computer-controlled spaceship named Genesis Orbital Device, though it really hid behind the moon. There, the computer monitored the sleeping pure humanoids for about a century before heading back to Earth. It landed somewhere in the Klamath Mountains in what was California. The mountains were untouched and had many resources that could be used for the new race of Man. The Genesis Children, in their blinding white synthetic jumpsuits, went out to pave a brand new world. Only to find that not only are genetic rotting humans still around, but mutants and other things came around too. Realizing that The Project became a flop and the Genesis Children had to share the world with inferiors to them, the transhumans made a towering citadel on the peak of Mount Eddy, and became withdrawn from the world, brooding about what to do next. A few generations later, the new leaders have decided that the reason The Project failed was because fate wanted the Genesis Children to bring enlightenment to the inferior masses. Thus, the gates of the Klamath citadel, which hasn't opened in a century, poured forth thousands of zealots, bent on spreading transhumanity across the world, even if they must force others to convert at the end of a laser barrel.


OOC: More to come. Just gotta get a break. Critic please.

[Shroom Man 777]

I find the description of the apocalypse, err, lacking or unsatisfactory. I mean, Mayan Calendar, and then poof RARGH KILL? Would be better to flesh it out in a more sensical way, mang.

[Booted Vulture]

I have the idea now of The Mayan Calender being some roaming, panic inspiring leviathan monster in the vein of Godzilla or Cloverfield. prompting the world to unleash its nuclear arsenal in an all out attempt to stop it in its tracks.

[Shroom Man 777]

Or maybe, if Earth is a nuked-out shithole and those space GOD dudes were cryonically frozen, with all the (news)paper burned at Fahrenheit 90210 and all the CDs and DVDs being used as frisbees, these postapocalyptic people would probably have no idea what caused the end of the world anyway - they'd have vague notions, but no concrete idea.

Perhaps the end of the world won't be "RARGH MAYANS 2012 EXPLOSIONS NUKES!" but would actually be more of a pseudo-mythological cataclysm that people would speak of in hushed reverent tones. They could speak of the artificial suns raining down to punish the degenerates, the seas rising up and turning yellow, and plagues of rodents! Liberals, degenerates, the Welsh!

Some nutsos could believe that there's guys who blasted off into space and colonized saturn with a race of morally affluent well to do people or something! Those GOD guys!

[Heretic]

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
—Douglas Adams (Courtesy of TV Tropes, Spanner in the Works

So yeah, what I was thinking was these Project dudes(and ettes) wanted some elaborate end where the world would be convenient for their new race, probably keeping themselves sheltered so that the Project members would rule. But dumbasses with unrestricted internet time, low IQs, and the keys to nukes somehow shit themselves from the 2012 Mayan/Revelation/Cthulhu thing enough that they just launched nukes everywhere, because they're scared.

And for the matter on what the heck happened, many theories came about. The zealots of various sects said it was from supreme beings, the Patriotic Republic of America thinks the damn Iranians and Ruskies did it, and the Greys think a couple of humans, from stupidity, blew up their own planet, which is probably the closest to the truth. Being that the interwebs, of some sort, still exists thanks to various groups like the Cybermen who keep this type of technology alive, people can get the general idea of the past, with the exception of conspiracy theorists who thinks this isn't the apocalypse, and that the "past" is just a way for governments to control the masses!