deepsear
2008-01-21, 06:22 PM
Okay... Imagine this.
It is the year 2027. Scientists in Europe have created a powerful new weapon, capable of mass terror and panic in any region they choose. It is a satellite, with the power to spread a massive EMP field over the entire Earth.
2028- The satellite's control center is hijacked by an extremist group convinced that technology is evil. They attempt to blanket the Earth in the EMP field, but in doing so short out their computers in a horrible oversight. The satellite is effectively put on autopilot, and cannot be reached now.
2228- In 200 years, the Earth has seen a massive technological setback. Strange sights are common: bison being hunted with .50-caliber sniper rifles, McDonald's worshiped as the shrines of food gods, and the real history long forgotten in the brutal upheaval that followed the cataclysm. In one city-state, our character is handed an old keycard by his sick, dying father. The character travels to a far-away city, to learn his fate and the meaning of his father's last word. "Eclipse."
The trek will be dangerous. Technologies before the spread of electricity are coming back, but the social interlace has not. Almost every nation is at war, for the land and the materials only the old cities can provide. And even when he arrives, they must seek out the dangerous and mythical group who are the descendants of those who lived the longest, able to have the secrets of the real history passed to them. At the end, the fate of the world will rest in our character's hands.
It is the year 2027. Scientists in Europe have created a powerful new weapon, capable of mass terror and panic in any region they choose. It is a satellite, with the power to spread a massive EMP field over the entire Earth.
2028- The satellite's control center is hijacked by an extremist group convinced that technology is evil. They attempt to blanket the Earth in the EMP field, but in doing so short out their computers in a horrible oversight. The satellite is effectively put on autopilot, and cannot be reached now.
2228- In 200 years, the Earth has seen a massive technological setback. Strange sights are common: bison being hunted with .50-caliber sniper rifles, McDonald's worshiped as the shrines of food gods, and the real history long forgotten in the brutal upheaval that followed the cataclysm. In one city-state, our character is handed an old keycard by his sick, dying father. The character travels to a far-away city, to learn his fate and the meaning of his father's last word. "Eclipse."
The trek will be dangerous. Technologies before the spread of electricity are coming back, but the social interlace has not. Almost every nation is at war, for the land and the materials only the old cities can provide. And even when he arrives, they must seek out the dangerous and mythical group who are the descendants of those who lived the longest, able to have the secrets of the real history passed to them. At the end, the fate of the world will rest in our character's hands.