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| The Headstart; A scenario after the quick absence of humans. | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 12 2017, 01:07 PM (367 Views) | |
| fisjj | Feb 12 2017, 01:07 PM Post #1 |
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Year 2506 Humankind has made many great advances. Cars with magnets that allow them to hover a few inches above ground, underwater planes, glowing trees. You'd think everything is in perfect harmony. Well, it's not. War after war are being fought. Nobody knows how these wars started, but it's because of race. Genetic modification is used extremely frequently now. Large fat breeds of pigs are used for the growth of organs. Squid descendants who grow over 25 tentacles for the Asian food industry. And worst of all, humans changing their own color. Humans are dying themselves different colors. You can walk down the street, and see a yellow shopkeeper, with his neon-green child. You look to the left and see a tall red woman with speckles of black. It's extremely hard to find a normal colored human in this time, some even say they're extinct. This is why wars are being fought, they want to prove that they're the best color. Luckily, or not so luckily, because of genetic modification, you can create new strains of bacteria. The most infamous terrorist group, named the Museres, with roughly a billion people in their group, are using these bacteria as a weapon. Suicide "bombers" go out into a public place, before throwing a metal canister into the air, which blows up and infects everyone in a large radius with this bacteria. The specific bacteria the Museres use is known as Funuiea, or the Death Worm, because of how successful it is. The worm part is because under a microscope, the bacteria is extremely slender. Year 2529 The end is coming, the Museres have infected the entirety of America and Africa (Where most of the population lives now). People are dropping dead like flies. And still, more than half the people don't even know they're infected. In a little more than a decade, 1/3 of the world's population is simply gone. Year 2715 Human life is gone. Yet, fauna is still thriving. Long short bromeliads use their sticky roots to travel to the top of collapsed buildings. Tiny bearded dragon descendants who escaped their cages scuttle on the ground with their stout legs, eating tiny hamsters. A large shrimp resembling a skinny lobster crawls out of the water to eat a bushy descendant of a broccoli and cauliflower hybrid. It's a strange world now. Spoiler: click to toggle TABLE OF CONTENTS Spoiler: click to toggle
Edited by fisjj, Feb 12 2017, 05:26 PM.
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| fisjj | Feb 12 2017, 05:22 PM Post #2 |
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Domestic Spear-Shrimp (Squilla Gladincer) Spoiler: click to toggle Genetic modification has lead to amazing things, such as this 4 foot long mantis shrimp. This large flat creature sits on the ocean floor, with a human on a dock or boat holding a strong string which is wrapped around the shrimp's awkwardly placed tail. The shrimp has 4 pairs of webbed legs, with a pair on it's head which is used for stabbing prey. Because of their mouth being on the bottom of their head, they can't eat the prey. The shrimp is pulled up once it's visible that the shrimp has caught something. When not being used for catching prey, the shrimp are either kept in buckets by themselves, or in a large tank. They are mostly fed pellets which are made up of protein-rich fish, bones crushed into a powder, and calcium-rich plants. They are a popular pet due to how little they move. After human-kind went extinct, some of these shrimp which were left near or in the water due to panic escaped into the ocean. They learned to dissect animals into chunks, the chunks float to the bottom, and they place their circular lamprey-like mouth and suck up the pieces. These shrimp typically inhabit depths of 100 to 3000 feet. They diversified into streamlined pelagic forms, flat pancake-like brackish water eusocials, tiny freshwater predators, and other oddities. |
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