Background Lore

The year was 1990, just before the Soviet Union collapsed. During the uprise of democracy, it spread a panic within the (still-existing) Bolshevik Party. In a last-ditch effort, they declared war on the United States of America, believing that they were the cause of spreading ideas of democracy in their communist country. Both NATO and the UN soon joined the war, which results in a third world war, involving all-out nuclear weaponry. During the war, America was developing a nuclear weapon, with a highly radioactive material, called "CX-054". This material when brought to extremely high temperatures (such as 25,000,000°K, or 44,999,540° F), it is known to spread vast amounts of radiation. When the bomb was dropped on the USSR and it's territories, the radiation from the material spread to a lot of countries located in both Western and Eastern sides of Europe. The 1st bomb as a test, was dropped on Volgograd. Seeing the result of the test, they then dropped the bombs on Moscow, Minsk, and then Khabarovsk. The now-devastated USSR, is in ruins and the entire landscape and ecosystem of Asia and some bits of Europe are reshaped by the bombs. This event was called "Cataclysm Day". The rest of the world however, does not look any different, as the soviets had a similar weapon, called "Tsar Bomba IV".

During, and before the bombing, both the USSR and The United States knew the outcome of the war, which would result in omnicide and/or a world-ending scenario. As the doomsday clock struck closer to midnight, in a rush to save as many people as they can, they both create the Ark Project. Some countries apart of NATO and UN, did or had a similar project. The project itself was to bring as many people as possible underground, such as bunkers or anything that was deep enough in the earth to survive. As a result of the project, only 35 million people survived the bombing, however, after the aftermath caused 10-15 million deaths, which is believed to be a cause of nuclear radiation, starvation, ground-zero of a bomb, or just a raiding party.

The year is now 2030, with the population of Earth sitting and dwindling at 2-5 million and, as they face a nuclear winter and deadly amounts of radiation. Some wildlife and other forms of life, have "adapted" or "evolved" to overcome the radiation, but they are nothing like what humanity as seen them as.