The Armoured Mercenary - First part: Steel Beast

Translate version of "Le Mercenaire en armure"

Towards the end of the 21st century a Third World War broke out. Against all expectations it was not a nuclear war triggered by the various dictatorships of the time, but simply a kind of toxin that dispersed into the air. This toxin transformed the mentality of a major part of the human race: the law of the strongest and natural selection became the rules of these men who had become beasts.
On the other hand, the slavery of the black peoples came back into fashion, gold was chosen as the world currency, the human population was halved, the remaining oil stocks were liquidated in the middle of the century and the steam engine was reused for all journeys, vehicles were made of copper and steel and their value increased considerably.
An organisation soberly named "The Organisation" was looking for a way to cure mankind of this toxin.