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-90% of the Earths Seawater
Topic Started: Apr 8 2018, 09:18 PM (260 Views)
Terraraptor411
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Long story short, a friend of mine who likes anime was trying to help me come up with a proper spec scenario. He suggested the world of Hokuto No Ken, starring Kenshiro. More importantly, the world he described is one where the Earth lost 90% of its seas/oceans, save for one sea in the east. Originally, I politely turned the idea down, as preliminary research told me macroscopic life wouldn't survive in this world. However some people on the discord chat said its more plausible than I thought.

Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions/research on what would happen if Earth lost that quantity of water? If its plausible I might run with this idea.

-Hokuto No Ken World: So, the desert landscape of Hokuto no Ken was caused by nuclear war. This caused cities to be utterly wasted, but not obliterated. Most of the Earth's population died off, but there were also thousands of survivors. Those who were strong enough to brave through the fallout or lucky enough to be in shelter. Afterwards, the surface of Earth was mostly devastated. 90% of Earth's seas dried up, save for a specific region between China and Japan labeled the Dead Sea. On land, there were remnants of cities, but skyscrapers were ruined or in the process of toppling over. One large sea, freshwater sources, and atmospheric water still exist.
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As an alternative backstory, you could have aliens steal (most of) the sea.

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Edited by Sayornis, Apr 8 2018, 11:31 PM.
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Dr Nitwhite
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As I said before, the Library is like spec crack.
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Sayornis
Apr 8 2018, 11:30 PM
As an alternative backstory, you could have aliens steal (most of) the sea.

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Not only have you won me over with that idea due to it being a Calvin and Hobbes reference, but that works really well and I'm totally going to use that.
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