The Scavenger of New York

The year is 2090, and the world lies in ruins. Everyone is either a bodiless brain trapped within the confines of an electrical prison left to suffer alone in an empty black void, a mindless bionic soldier under the control of a deranged sentient AI dead set on “curing” all of humanity, or a lonely ageless scavenger with a broken body and metal parts, left to scavenge the remains of civilization for survival. The cities of man lay in ruins, ravaged by the horrors of the Artificial Intelligence War, or AI War, a war between man and the forces of a super computer named Kurtz. All is quiet now. An unlucky few survived the terrors of the war with their brains and bodies intact; the scavengers. A mighty metropolis called New York once stood in what is now a burning dusty wasteland. The area is covered in the remains of skyscrapers and other buildings. Streets are lined with piles of rubble that contain everything from bricks, wood, and shards of steel. Most buildings have been destroyed with only one or two walls still standing, and the roofs completely caved in. The air is dry and dusty with the stale stench of ash permeating everything. The once clear blue skies are a rusty shade of brown from all of the dust in the air making it possible to only see a few yards in front of you. The streets are devoid of any forms of life aside from the occasional weed or vine that managed to grow up the crumbled remains of wall where it is shielded from the constant sandy winds that plague the area. The Hudson River is a disgusting shade of muddy brown from all of the dirt and debris constantly washed into the water, The New York Harbor is a similar shade of brown as the river, but the ocean water is slightly lighter. The city that was once illuminated by the glow of electrical lights is now dark aside from the diluted sunlight that manages to break through the thick layer of dust in the atmosphere.