Category:World's End

Exposition
So basically, the Earth started to shift on its axis. And civilization as we know it was like, “OMG WTF BBQ!” And the resulting climate and geographical changes bought humanity to its knees. But, as humanity tends to do, it survived, and the survivors were left to rebuild. But riding out the more-or-less apocalypse took a very long time, so the people that emerged from the ruins had mostly forgotten how civilization used to be. So they just started over.

Around the time the story begins, civilization has basically been brought up to the mid to late 1800s, so it’s all Wild Wild West style. But there are a few bits of technology left over from the Old Times, so it’s a bit scf-fi swanky as well. And maybe each city is themed differently, so like New York is all 1920s, and maybe Los Angeles looks like Ancient Rome for some reason.

Domes
Before the collapse of civilization as we know it, the richer cities tried to take steps to preserve their buildings and stuff by building these big ol’ domes over the cities. And as far as preserving the actual cities, it worked out pretty well.

Unfortunately, the cities ended up abandoned anyway because there wasn’t food and water and people were forced to leave to go find some. Eventually, once things started to calm down, people moved back, and now the cities operate as basically teeny kingdoms, which each one ruled by a powerful family that has some kind of business stake in the new civilization.

New York, for example, is run by the McCallum family, who are responsible for framing the legislative and judicial system that most of the cities adhere to. They’re also water dealers, meaning that they have the means to filter water and make it drinkable. So they’re all rich and what not. I figure that we can have whatever cities we want, and it will be setsyfine.