I remember that Snowpiercer movie wherein they used some sort of mass chemical or process and ended up doing Global Cooling and the only known piece of humanity is the Snowpiercer train that has is made up of passengers+employees and a load of guys who weren't passengers or employed to begin with
Actually it is implied with
Frostpunk as well, how much this chemical agent was the instigator for the cooling is unknown but it was considered a possibility.
Were these 'snowships' and orbital elevators around before the sudden weather change? Because I dislike how the recommendations for Japanese "post-Apocalypse" are mostly societies that REBUILT AND LOOK MODERN & FUTURISTIC!!!
The ideas were pre-apocalypse, but they weren't created until
after the apocalypse if that makes sense. Snowships took a long while to work out the kinks with, making Truckers one of the most respected jobs in the setting.
Also, why are these 'Eco-Purists' a threat? I'd think they would have been a minority even before the disaster and maybe have been murdered en masse by angry citizenry
Partially because they have their own locales to strike from and they keep sending basically mind-control grade memetics into the arcologies. Any actual eco-purists that are discovered are executed immediately.
As for the AI Dictatorship, any chance that it's ran by a Multivac(Isaac Asimov)-expy that occasionally has a desire to kill itself due to the immense and increasing responsibilities it's got?
It is more akin to the AI of the game series
Earth 21X0 (made by a polish studio oddly enough) and Bolo-esque than Asimovian.
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Would there also be underwater cities around underwater gheotermic vents? It would be a good setting for Subwar 2050 style game.
There were initial forays into undersea colonies before the Upheavals,
but they were extremely reliant on land-based logistic chains, so when the ocean surface froze thick enough to have 100+ kTon snowships run all over them without worry... everyone died.
There are attempts to restart this though.
Also Eco-Purists killing off 99% of plant and animal species, then doubling down on their insanity? Rather cosistent with their current levels of sanity.
Let me put it this way, these guys are the sort of people that made
Greenpeace go and kick them out and call them
an enemy to nature. They're the hardcore of the hardcore human genocideists. They're also possibly responsible for the rewrite of the human gene code that made 60 years old the literal ceiling of the human lifespan for centuries and made sure that all their notes and data on this was destroyed forcing everyone to
make a cure from scratch.
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Plus, I think people having created Arcologies would have maybe lessened the insanity
If you can make mostly self sufficient cities that produce their own food and process their own waste, no major problem
That was
after the Eco-Purists kicked off the 'snowball effect'. The various nations try to build as many of these as they could before the shit hit the fan... leaving barely a billion people living on Earth in the process.
It’s actually a rather moderate way to save the environment and save money at the same time in the long run
Unless said arcologies run on huge amounts of fossil fuels and are extremely radioactive
All of them use modular fission reactors, as it was the only thing that can produce the necessary electricity.
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Lessened the insanity?
Ecoists would have killed almost all plant and animal life with their iced earth (not the
good one) move and not accepting the guilt, they would have doubled down into insanity, blaming the rest of the humanity instead.
There is a reason that even
Greenpeace had a 'shoot on sight' order on these guys.
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@Aaron Fox
Here’s a nickname for them, “The Saints”
Or The Church of Ryback
Before you ask, I got it from John Ringo/David Weber’s Prince Roger/Empire of Man series
It’s really ironic in that “The Saints” are MORE ecologically damaging than the guys they accuse and attack, hell The Empire of Man and others may not have those same laws but they used technology to fix things
Eco-Purists were what these crazies called themselves, and the name stuck like how Nazis are applied to anything fascist.
The thing was, the various nations of the planet were going to use many of the technologies that would later be put into the arcologies into a climate restoration network.
However, like the Black Hand before WW1, they would rather have things get to shit than being better...
