Chemical warfare was released across much of Asia, forcing technology to advance to contain the death and save lives. Gene therapy was developed to allow those in this part of the world to breathe better through the polluted air, and respirator technology advanced in conjunction with this. Nobody truly knows where the chemical came from, or who released it, or why; though rumours say it came out of a misguided mind of a mad genius from Italy.
2020-2050
What happened in the world, from 'now' until its end....
'Now' til the end.
2020 2047
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2024
Chemical Warfare
Plague / Epidemic -
2028
2029
Nuclear Year
Disaster / DestructionTension across the western world eventually brought war, a short sharp conflict, between 2028 and 2029 where nuclear power, much feared and much threatened was briefly realised. In the devastating wake that saw much of Australia destroyed and New Zealand wiped off the world map, a cross nation coup soon brought a stop to this. America, England and Sweden united the western world in an effort to stop people dying. Japan isolated themselves, much of southern Africa cut all ties with the outside world, and Russia went silent.
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2029
India Rises
Scientific achievementOut of the recent conflict however, and its abrupt stop, technology previously classified by the military was spread out to the civilian population. Combat medicines emerged out of India; fast acting healing substances and advanced diagnostics machines, and India rose up on the world stage to become a superpower after developing this and a strength enhancer; the supply of which made the country very very wealthy.
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2030
2033
Bad Signals
Technological achievementCommunication technology took a dip following a major technological breakthrough in Britain; the phone industry took invasive signals too far, causing brain tumours that killed a significant amount of people over a 3 year period before the communication towers were turned off for good.
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2033
2041
Peace
Era beginning/end10 years of peace followed the breakdown of a significant portion of worldwide communications. The internet still ran, but mobile communications were now too dangerous. In the wake of this a lot of the devastation from the Nuclear Year was cleared, and the areas left to recover. A lot of parts of the world started to turn back to nature during this time, learning to live off of and work with the land again; growing natural food, getting rid of plastic and the extraction of fossil fuels was finally stopped.
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2044
2050
WW3
Disaster / Destruction2044 saw covert troops reporting to an unknown authority started to assassinate world leaders. Their replacements, unprepared for office and the pressure of assassination attempts caused bad judgements to be made. Blame was put where it shouldn't be, and despite the dangers communications towers were turned back on; despite the progress made in the last 10 years fossil fuel production was restablished in high quantities in order to use vehicles geared for warfare from the Nuclear Year. The Blackout of the world happened during the 6th year, of a true World War 3.