Whispers say that the fine Russian ladies and gents over at Siberia RudBioteknik tried an experiment, some new kind of technology that hadn t been affected by the pulse, a last ditch effort to bring their country back online. They opened a door to somewhere and something all hooks and tentacles came through and ate a bunch of them. In some rumors, it stayed here when the gate closed. China didn t fare any better. Ruling the Empire of Heaven with taloned fists.
Most people don t worry too much about things like that.
Most people have learned to farm again, and for the most part to get along with their neighbors. Community defense, an idea left behind when America became criss-crossed with roads and railways, became popular again, and the soldiers that citizens had feared and despised when they came back from the horrors of war were once again treated like brothers and sons. Most people worry about eating, and working, and winter. I lived much as I always have. What s in my pack I got for free.