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The New Age Setting


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The New Age refers to the World After The Visitor, what they called the planetoid that was on a collision course with earth, was destroyed and rained destruction and Change upon the Earth.

 

Unlike most of my Games I am setting this one in an exact time. this game begins when the Visitor Impacts the earth in the year 2028. Of course this is a Fictionalized version of our world but for the most part it is Identical to the one we live on.

 

I will probably have to make some assumptions about the four years between the real world and the fictional time start but I will only do so in specifics if need be.

 

The game at first will be set in North America where the brunt of the damage of impact occurs but rest assured the rest of the world has been affected as well some place even more so.

 

The beginning of the story takes place In two specific locations.

 

One is Cheyenne Mountain Space Command in Colorado. Where the Defense against the Visitor was led by NASA and USSC (United State Space Command).

 

And Shelly, Montana, our fictional  version of Shelby Montana where several other games were set and different versions of these characters existed. (Note that this is NOT the Shelly, from those games although many of the same events (the not weird parts) did occur, such as the characters early upbringing and life in Shelly. These characters are different versions and they are older.) 

 

 

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One of the biggest changes over the next five years is the beginnings of the MIcroTech Age (TL9).  Major advances occur in the material science, especially in the fabrication of nano-scale materials, the development of composite materials, and in polymer-based electronics. Many new and exciting innovations begin to be developed and some are even becoming wide spread before the Visitor.

 

In game terms this mean that TL8 gear is readily available and some TL9 gear is possible to obtain.

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The Tesla Towers

 

When Dr Rivera needed away to implement her Defense of the earth she turned to an unproven technology for more than a century eelier.

 

In 1901 Nikola Tesla built what he claimed to be a Wireless Power Transmitter at  Shoreham, New York, called the Wardenclyffe Tower. Using the principles developed and theorized for wireless transmission using the earth as the conductor Rivera designed and created a version that could transmit and manipulated the X and C waves in the atmosphere.

 

In Honor of Tesla the new towers were called Tesla Towers. 

 

The Tesla Wave -  the Energy Backlash which sent a wave of unclassified energy across the globe when

the Towers collapsed during the Visitor Impact. It was this wave which made the dormant Adaptation genes active.

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Impact +120 Hrs

 

Data was coming in now. It was bad.

 

Multiple strikes across northern Canada had left numerous forest fires raging. A single Large strike in Hudson Bay inundated the surrounding coasts with walls of water fifty feet high that drove inland almost fifteen miles, wiping out towns and fishing villages and lives. An accurate death toll would never be known.

 

Vancouver was struck by part of the same rock that hit Seattle. That rock, the largest to hit atmosphere, was larger than the Dinosaur Killer. Had it hit it would have killed the planet as surely as if the whole visitor would have hit if not as spectacularly. Luckily for the world it broke up as it tore through the atmosphere. Analysis in the days to follow would reveal that this was the rock that killed the Tesla Towers. The debris from this rock took out Vancouver, destroyed Seattle, and rained death and destruction as far south as San Francisco. The Seattle impact was the single largest strike which left a crater almost ten miles across and 1200 feet deep at its center.

 

Billings, Montana was hit by a rock that struck the center of the city leaving a crater a mile across. T

 

An impact in Lake Michigan less than a mile off shore of Evanston, left Chicago and all of the coastal area destroyed from the shock wave and tsunami.

 

Manhattan Island was hit by multiple impacts the largest of which struck just east of the Holland tunnel leaving a crater a mile and a half across. Not a single skyscraper was left standing in the city.

 

Multiple strikes near Minneapolis have left that city a ruin surrounded by craters.

 

A direct hit by two rocks at Leavenworth Kansas leave conjoined craters over five miles across and vaporize the United States gold reserve.

 

Omaha and it surrounding communities are flattened by over a hundred small strikes during the impact event. Fire will burn in that part of Nebraska for weeks.

 

Those were the major Impacts but when the count was finally recorded over 1,467 impacts occurred in North America alone.

 

The estimated death toll from the Visitors Impact stands  at 24.6 million but the true number will likely never be known.

 

Greenland received over 300 hits luckily all were in the ice pack.

 

Iceland was spared multiple impacts but the one that did hit the small nation set off a series of volcanic eruption across the island that will continue for months. Iceland, as a nation, has effectively ceased to exist.

 

That was the main impact. Over the next 3 days further impacts were recorded across the globe as smaller debris was pulled to earth, but no major population centers would be hit as hard as any in North America.

 

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