That’s been my boggle that I was sleeping on: How to make this war happen without the Earth being rendered uninhabitable.
We’re about to have a major world power that’s had 25+ years of unrestricted and unmonitored eugenics research become a primary belligerent in the most destructive war the planet has ever seen. Hence the “World War III” moniker.
I came up with a “solution.” I’m not sure I terribly like it as it’s rather heavy-handed and a bit heavy on the dues ex machina: Reality quake aftershocks undo the worst of the damage.
That gives us the added responsibility of determining who is responsible for the Reality Quake and making them interesting, because it almost has to be a sapient mind behind it.
My other idea, pretty much the same thing, just from a different perspective, was that the Reality Quake was the war. It wasn’t supposed to have happened, this was the war a different IST world suffered. A select group of heroes discovers this and discovers how to trigger another reality quake to put their world back on the “right” path. Trapping themselves “forever” in the other, apocalyptic, world.
We’re about to have a major world power that’s had 25+ years of unrestricted and unmonitored eugenics research become a primary belligerent in the most destructive war the planet has ever seen. Hence the “World War III” moniker.
I came up with a “solution.” I’m not sure I terribly like it as it’s rather heavy-handed and a bit heavy on the dues ex machina: Reality quake aftershocks undo the worst of the damage.
That gives us the added responsibility of determining who is responsible for the Reality Quake and making them interesting, because it almost has to be a sapient mind behind it.
My other idea, pretty much the same thing, just from a different perspective, was that the Reality Quake was the war. It wasn’t supposed to have happened, this was the war a different IST world suffered. A select group of heroes discovers this and discovers how to trigger another reality quake to put their world back on the “right” path. Trapping themselves “forever” in the other, apocalyptic, world.