Olympus

If you can't win the war, try to survive it. This idea guided many influential heads of corporations like Pantheon Corp. and many others. The tallest construction of the post-war world on a "solitary" island near Crete, which, despite bombing with nuclear warheads, sticks to the saddle and is fully functional for its creators. To this day, successive generations of the rich, who treated themselves to conditions not far from what they had before the bombs fell. Away from mutants, humans and radiation. A new home they named after the mountain that was home to the ancient deities… Olympus.
== History ==
=== Origins ===
Already in 2030 you could feel the increasing tensions between the superpowers. More and more international incidents, increasing friction in their interests and instigators and extremists wanting war. The whole situation was also followed by the heads of large corporations, whose cool calculation and strategic skills allowed them to predict where it was all heading. The CEO of Pantheon Corporation has already foreseen that sooner or later war will come and with it there is a dangerously high probability of ending the hostilities with atomic bombardment. In 2031, there was a secret meeting of the richest and most influential people in an unknown location. It is known, however, that all participants reached an agreement and the secretly implemented project "Hellada" was initiated, which assumed the construction of a shelter for the boards of all companies included in the conspiracy, boards, families and selected personnel, and even for selected people who had previously paid for own place. Work started and it was built in just three years. Gargantuan skyscraper built in a style that is a combination of classicism and gothic with thick concrete walls reinforced with lead. This giant, 939 meters high and with a base of 200x150 meters, towers over the sky on a lonely island near Crete. Pantheon Corp. Together with his partners, he justified the whole project to the public as a project to break the Burj Khalifa record and serve as a luxury hotel and a new center of world trade. Before the hostilities began, companies also began mass stockpiling of food, water, luxury goods, but also weapons, ammunition and fuel, and even vehicles, which were to serve them later. In the end, the building, thanks to the last swindles of the corporation's conspiracy, did not backfire both during World War III and during the exchange of warheads. Since then, the Oversight Board, which included the CEO of Pantheon Corporation as chairman, and the most wealthy inhabitants of Olympus.
=== Post-war ===
The inhabitants of Olympus survived the nuclear bombing. The construction of the skyscraper was designed not so much for the explosion of nuclear bombs as for its aftermath in the form of strong radiation that enveloped the earth when the last bomb touched the earth. Thick reinforced concrete, together with a solid layer of lead, gave the inhabitants of the structure closed with massive titanium gates freedom from the deadly radiation. Since then, for more than a decade, the richest and most powerful people in the world have avoided God's punishment by living in the most luxurious place, which, compared to the post-nuclear wasteland, is a real paradise on earth. Moreover, the island on which Olympus was built was far enough from the mainland that the inhabitants did not have to worry about attacks by mutants or people who would like to reach for the riches of Olympus. As if that wasn't enough defense systems deployed throughout the island, from anti-tank mines to still functional advanced turrets armed with miniguns or even rocket launchers. It would seem that the carefree life of the mighty of the world was to be endless and to be close to the mythological creatures living on Olympus. Nevertheless, after 17 years, food supplies and physical selection began to run out drastically. The exception, of course, was water and energy, thanks to the filter systems of water taken from the Mediterranean Sea, which was also used to power the hydroelectric power plant under the building. But back to the issue of shortages. The lavish lifestyle of the inhabitants eventually led to internal problems. Previously built fruit and vegetable gardens, underground grain fields and a small pig and cow farm began to be insufficient. Both the privileged mountain of the rich, i.e. the proper inhabitants, and the working class (which lived very well on Olympus anyway) engaged in serving the owners began to grow. The wealthy society faced a real crisis, had to decide on further actions to be taken in order to protect the current lifestyle and maintain the prevailing order. Ultimately, the Oversight Board decided to end Olympus's isolationist policy and send its people to the wasteland to search for new supplies, but also to plunder the first survivors' settlements, or to subjugate the settlers to collect tribute from them, which was to serve the inhabitants of Olympus. After a year of preparation, the first helicopters finally left Olympus, which haunt the areas of former Greece and Albania to this day.
== Overview ==
=== Leadership ===
Olympus is widely regarded as a technocracy, ruled by an Oversight Board consisting of a group of CEOs of the most powerful corporations that built Olympus and usurped the right to run it at will. After their death, however, their place was successively taken by people selected by them. Officially, they were democratically elected, but it was just a façade that no resident paid any attention to as everyone preferred to continue their hedonistic lives inside the safe concrete colossus.
=== Ideology ===
Theoretically, Olympus has no established ideology. However, one can detect pure hedonism in its inhabitants, which manifests itself in their lifestyle at a very high level. Nevertheless, it took a very radical form when hunger threatened the whole community and the possible end of their carefree life. From this point Olympus followed a path not much different from that followed by the Mongols in the time of Gengis Khan.
=== Society ===
As mentioned earlier, the society of Olympus is governed by boundless hedonism, which often begins not to differ much from what it looked like among the people in Huxley's Brave New World. People there fall into two categories. The first category is the actual inhabitants, i.e. the rich who either were members of the corporation that erected Olympus, and the rich singers, scientists and other degenerates who made a "donation" to Olympus. The other is, of course, the workers who keep the system in check by working for the right people. They play the roles of servicemen, waiters, specialists, cooks and all professions that could make the life of the rich even more luxurious. Interestingly, their living standards do not differ much from those of the proper inhabitants.
=== Military ===
Olympus has a very small armed force composed mostly of second-class citizens and perhaps a few upper-class citizens. They're not very powerful. At most, they can be called a militia with very high firepower and specialized military equipment. They have explosives, guns, ammunition and even heavy equipment like rocket launchers or artillery. You can't forget about the large number of helicopters, thanks to which they can easily lead plundering raids on almost defenseless settlements of survivors.
====== Reference ======
Olympus is an explicit reference to the Fallout 2 mod Olympus 2207. Any credits to those guys who had the will to make this great mod.
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