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aldersprigMarch is Worldbuilding Month! Leave me a question about any of my worlds, and I will do my best to answer it! (I need more questions, guys)
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This eleventh one is fromlilfluff: just what was the nature of the apocalypse in The Planners?
You know, I have been doing a Very Good Job of leaving that completely unsaid.
The things I know are: It was not nuclear, it was not alien, and it was not zombie. It was not climactic - I.e. Giant Flood, that thing in 2000 or whatever the movie was with a giant freeze everywhere and the book-burning, and it probably didn’t involve Mad Max. It was probably not an asteroid strike.
It destroyed a large portion of the infastructure and it was probably that destruction that killed off a large portion of the population.
It was a worldwide apocalypse, not centered on any one nation.
It may have had a lot in common appearance-wise with the apocalypse in the TV show Revolution, although it was not cause by Plot Nanotech. Basically: the power all went out. Cars stopped working. Going anywhere became a challenge.
I think it involved several EMPs or a world-wide EMP. Either a backfiring test strike that ended up with several large nations making a mess of the world, or something like solar flares that made a mess all on its own.
As far as apocalypses go, it left the landscape mostly untouched, the people devastated, and technology a mess.
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lilfluff: just what was the nature of the apocalypse in The Planners?You know, I have been doing a Very Good Job of leaving that completely unsaid.
The things I know are: It was not nuclear, it was not alien, and it was not zombie. It was not climactic - I.e. Giant Flood, that thing in 2000 or whatever the movie was with a giant freeze everywhere and the book-burning, and it probably didn’t involve Mad Max. It was probably not an asteroid strike.
It destroyed a large portion of the infastructure and it was probably that destruction that killed off a large portion of the population.
It was a worldwide apocalypse, not centered on any one nation.
It may have had a lot in common appearance-wise with the apocalypse in the TV show Revolution, although it was not cause by Plot Nanotech. Basically: the power all went out. Cars stopped working. Going anywhere became a challenge.
I think it involved several EMPs or a world-wide EMP. Either a backfiring test strike that ended up with several large nations making a mess of the world, or something like solar flares that made a mess all on its own.
As far as apocalypses go, it left the landscape mostly untouched, the people devastated, and technology a mess.
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Date: 2017-03-29 06:39 pm (UTC)But no. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html The idea I had is that the weakening of the magnetic field, while not enough to cause damage to the actual climate or ecology or anything, would effectively boost the technological impact of solar flares.
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