Thread: Post-Apocalypse Interest Check (By a man who's rubbish at titles)

Wow, I'm gone at Comic-Con for a day and the ideas are already flying. The most beautiful thing I've ever seen, hands down. Now, the EMP idea, I have given thought to it because I've gone through quite a few iterations of such an idea, with a conspiratorial background somewhere in there. Still, it's awesome to see you guys throw a lot of effort into it, despite my saying that Europe went dark. I meant that in a we've had no communications with them since the Event kind of thing, but hey, your explanations and thoughts are awesome! The Solar Flare idea is a bit iffy with me, personally. The Sun and I have never been on very good terms anyway, but I really don't want Skin Cancer to be the way to go in the apocalypse, however tragically funny that might be. I'd have to do more research on it to be sure of my position. The Pandemic idea, I've done it on here a while back, where I made up a disease which was only referred to as The Plague, which was a disease that thrived in cold climates, and degenerated the body on a molecular level slowly over the course of the infection, the degeneration lasting either from days to weeks to even months. In that idea, though, the survivors had to deal with the U.S. Military and PMC lethal quarantine procedures in order to contain the plague. The fault line... I'm not really sure about that. I've my own theories about those, and Earthquakes are a great Apoc starter, but... I dunno, it doesn't seem to fit. Sorry, but such an earthquake would probably rip the world apart piece by piece. I think we'd want our survivors to survive the apocalypse, not an omnicidal argument between two stone plates. Economic collapse is reason enough to start riots and destabilization, but I don't think it'd be enough to topple the entire world. Yes, economics are strong, but governments have contingencies in case of such a situation. It's more of a follow-up event to a much bigger disaster. Unbeknownst, while that picture is epic and I might use it for my background, you also gave us another option. Alien invasion. It could be for colonization, it could be purely for resources, either the planet's or humans as slave labor, it could be, to them, a retaliation to the government's keeping and experimenting on their people, or it could be purely genocidal coincidence. I think we'd have to discuss that a bit more, since it's an interesting concept. Of course, we could always go with War. What is it good for? People say absolutely nothing. Good god, y'all. But it's a good plot device, and it's something that I myself have worked on with a friend, where two separate sides split the United States apart in a Civil War, the Coalition the Former Government and the Federation I'll just label these guys as bad. Other nations could throw their weight with certain sides, but everyone loses in the end, apparently, as governments cease to be, anarchy reigns, and the Coals and Feds are just as dangerous as the Marauders. Then there's a concept that I think could merit discussion Terraforming Gone Wrong. An experiment in a desolate part of the world dealing with terraforming which, if successful, would be introduced into the Mars Colonization Project, but it goes terribly wrong. It changes the way the atmosphere contains heat, and soon the entire world starts to kind of freeze over. Not like The Day After Tomorrow, but it starts to snow a lot more in Phoenix and Dubai. Of course, it could go the other way around and make the world more arid, turning Earth into a kind of desert world. And then we could always try different combinations of these, see how they work out. After this, I might be starting a discussion board on how an apocalypse could happen and what would happen afterwards. This is good to see brainstorming, but it'd be just as fun to discuss it, right?