Friday, February 14, 2003

/ Blake // 8:21 AM

(ffom my old notes) What heck happened to the world? You're in New Manhattan States, on the east coast of the Incorporated States. Some nights, when the smog and dust clears up a little, you can see across the bay, get a glimpse of the ruins of old Manhattan. It disappeared about 30 years ago, practically vaporized. Now it's just a garbage crater filled with the corpses of old buildings. After it disappeared, the government searched desperately for a scapegoat, and launched nuclear weapons everywhere. Everyone else launched nuclear weapons everywhere. And somehow, humanity survived. The death toll was estimated at nearly a billion, an eighth of the worlds population scraped.
Some people would call it World War Three, but it was far too short, maybe a week long. They would call it "The Chinese Food of Wars." America got off pretty good, all but one missile was intercepted by the 'Star Wars' Defense satellites (retrofitted and reactivated just in time for the attacks), and it 'only' obliterated Tokapika, Kansas. Other damage was inflected though, and within a few years, most countries started selling out to large corporations. In June of 2027, under the Disney Act, corporations were allowed to hire and control private armies. The government began relying more and more on corporations to control the populous, until in 2040, when the government was officially bought out by the Incorporated States of America. All remaining public services were disbanded…..(to be continued)

Sometimes Justice is more Important then First Period.