The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic future after a major nuclear war that destroyed much of the northern hemisphere. Remnants of humanity survive in South America, Africa and Australia, as well as a few in space. The consequences of the conf...
Large areas of the earth are now uninhabitable, radioactive clouds besiege the poor life that still inhabits the surface with their dying rains. From the Siberian steppes to the island that was formerly Great Britain, including the silhouette of New York and its imposing skyscrapers that today are ruins of a pharaonic past. Israel completely reduced to dust, there are no longer any relics to defend.
New species have appeared on the earth, the great expanses of the ancient civilization today lie under the thick grass. The ancient wolves and elk mutated into new creatures, while cockroaches and scorpions became the bane of this new world. The entire northern hemisphere is refurbished and green, as it would have been fifty thousand years ago.The great war was finally carried out, as they had planned for a long time. The great and last world war wiped out a large part of humanity, mainly in the northern hemisphere. Large craters and quadrupedal beings born from pain on earth are like demonic spawns that took over half of the planet. Atomic energy became a portal to hell.
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What made the southern hemisphere weak in the face of the empire of Western civilizations made it invisible and its importance emerged in this dramatic juncture. Africa, South America, Australia and even southern Asia to a lesser extent were miraculously saved from radioactive annihilation. The miracle also benefited a few paranoid people in the epicenters of the conflict. Although in microscopic measures, life also survived in the ancient cities of the empires. Small human groups condemned to their underground tunnels and arks.
After the war, only about twelve thousand people could survive in the United States. Similar figures are known thanks to the operation of satellites and space stations, which still communicate with the agencies of the last governments on earth. It should be noted that the first space city, the Noé station, had barely been enabled and had no more than 700 people at that time. But it had capacity for 20 thousand inhabitants, and indeed from those 700 people today they have given birth to 30 thousand space colonists.
Its economy is based on metals brought from outer space and the highest technology of this new earth. French Guiana is now the capital of residual France, the spaceport, one of the few links with the orbital stations. The guianas and Indian shuttles still operate, sometimes giving entry to the last non-radioactive Russians. Although I exaggerate, there are still some Russians on the planet, but they are only descendants of immigrants. Russia as a country now only exists in space.
China, Japan and the Koreas are perhaps those that gave the most victims to the great human sacrifice. Although fortunately its genetic line did not become completely extinct, its population was decimated by 97.4% of the total. Japan's need for living space, Russia's reluctance to sell an area of its territory, the revenge desired for years by the Chinese imagination, cooked up the pain that unleashed the nuclear catastrophe.
Then I will talk about the Chinese Zenshou station, its satellites and the Japanese Yamato ships.
The Falklands, Australia and New Zealand, are the remnant of England. Although the Falklands are now part of Argentina, its population still speaks English. It was not difficult for them to accept the annexation, seeing that otherwise they would become skeletal inhabitants of an island disconnected from any metropolis.
They now see Argentina as their new metropolis.
The new world order is something else. Although there were also wars in the human remnants, there is still a true population density in these places. Argentina today has 70 million inhabitants, like Colombia. Brazil saw a sharp population reduction but maintains a high number. Only Colombia and Venezuela, which are now a single country, have 40 million after having lost more than half of their original 75 million. It was perhaps one of the countries that suffered the most from the end of the world without having participated in the war. Optimists and pessimists agree that they stopped the conflict in time thanks to their pacifist vocation and historical ties of unity.
In Africa there was no major change. For many, Western culture never existed, its rich mythologies were only filled with stories from the past that were told to children. Their tribal wars remained unsullied, as did their customs and needs. They still have old technologies, but today they are not protagonists.
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After the catastrophe, the desire grew to venerate the Earth, cry for it and ask it to heal soon. Colombia is the cradle of this new syncretic religion, where they only changed the gender of God and gave greater importance to their ecological ideas. But technological currents also emerged.Violence and crime continue in humanity - theft, corruption, mafias. But at least corrupt politicians can no longer steal and spend money on eccentricities. They only have to build, given the impossibility of wasting in a world without luxuries to offer.If you want me to tell you a secret, the real culprits of the catastrophe were some neo-Nazi hackers...
