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| Humankind has always been obsessed with eternal life in one form or another. In the year 2015 medical researchers (Robert and Marissa Dalton) in Denver, Colorado claimed to have found a pathogen, which they called the Ans Pathogen that would stop the aging process and grant its recipient with at least an extra 80 years where their body would not age. As politics and corrupt money would have it, only the wealthy had access to this new fountain of youth. Out of the world’s 6.5 billion people, only a handful were actually administered the pathogen. Who new that the new virus would also answer a question that had been plaguing the world's population over the last century or so? Every new virus from AIDS to West Nile to the Avian Flu had at one point or another been pointed to as the next pandemic, but not one person suspected that the Ans Pathogen would turn into the Ans Virus. It was only a year later in 2016 that the virus began to show signs of mutation. These signs included decreased fertility in those who had taken the virus and hair loss. At the beginning of 2017 the virus had rapidly completed its mutation and life as the people of earth knew it was destined to drastically change forever. The Ans Virus reversed its initially pleasing effects and instead of stopping the aging process for 80 years, it started to do the opposite. Its physical effect on people was similar to an aggressive case of leprosy and fatal after only two days, at maximum those with the virus lived one week after initial infection. Everyone around the world looked to the Dalton's, who had developed the initial pathogen to find a cure, but what the world found was that they were amongst the first victims of the mutated strain. Perhaps the most devastating part of the virus’ mutation was when it became airborne. At that point the virus was not only killing those that were rich or powerful enough to have taken the initial pathogen. This was when governments all over the world quickly established quarantine camps and massive evacuations of highly populated cities. As normal money and power ruled, those with it found themselves in the camps with the most doctors, but what they also found was that this is where people came to die. As most of the initial deaths had been amongst those with power and money, those left were almost all already infected. The world governments never realized that it was only attacking people over the age of 25, not because they didn't posses the intelligence to see what was happening, but simply because there was no one alive in government long enough to see what was actually happening around them. The people that were put in the camps ranged from infants to the elderly, but it was one of those things that looking back upon it was utterly useless and actually caused more harm than good. By the time these camps were started a blind panic had even taken over the governments, everyone believed it was the end of the entire human race. Those who would live saw horrible atrocities done by those that didn't think it really mattered anymore. Some even were killed by their own families in the belief that they were doing their children a favour by not letting them suffer. Thus as the year 2018 drew near most gave up scrambling for answers or cures, but as the new year dawned those under the age of 25 found that not only that they were not dead, but they were not even sick. Only the memories of what had happen scarred them. Under a billion people were left on the entire planet and nothing would ever be the same. |
| Since the dawn of 2018 the world has fallen into chaos. With more than 5.6 billion dead, the world has encountered more problems than anyone actually planned for. Everyone thought that if only the virus could be stopped the world would magically go back to the way it was. They were wrong. The survivors, children and young adults, have been left to pick up the pieces of a world that was wracked with waste. As all of those still alive are under the age or twenty-five most don't have the skills to run even the most basic things they had always taken for granted, nor do they have nearly enough of the manpower to actually run them. Thus choices had to be made in communities around the world as to what was necessary and what was not. Even before 2020 most of the usable fossil fuels had been consumed. Most that lived in Europe or North America didn't know how to live without it; they had never had to. But quickly enough they had found out that they would have to as the process of refine crude oil in order to be usable was not something easily mastered. Without fossil fuels most things just stopped working. In cities, towns and country sides all over the planet they are starting to rebuild the world; but things are not the same. It’s been two years since the virus decimated the world’s population and by now the survivors have developed a way of life. They have had to, as unlike the way most of them grew up, there are no life lines anymore. No one's going to save you, you have to save yourself. A good number of them have found groups to align themselves with. No one's going to save you, you have to save yourself. A good number of them have found groups to align themselves with. Drifters are rare and usually have specific reasons for not wanting to be part of a group that can provide the basic necessities. Food, shelter, and water are hard things to come by these days, and more often than not, groups can provide them. These groups call themselves tribes in most parts of the world. Some of them are ruthless and power-hungry, some of them are peaceful, trying to survive and help each other in the process. The tribes are diverse, all of them with different goals in mind. Most of the survivors are being faced with things they never even had to consider before. Things like, starvation, violence, death, and the always nagging question, “Is the virus really gone? Will it come back again?” It’s up to the survivors to rebuild the world that they want. What that world will look like is up to every single person living within it now. |
| Up until the discovery of a rich copper mine fifteen years ago Sundance was nothing but a small town with a few minor tourist attractions. The real Sundance Kid had been held in the Sundance jail and that’s where the town got its name. Another thing that often attracted people to Sundance was the Devil’s Tower in the northeast. This volcanic plug was a sacred place to the local Native American tribes and drew thousands of tourists and climbers every year. Despite its tourism value, the city of Sundance never really grew into anything more than a town of around 2000 people. This is until a group of Geologists hired by the Vance Corporation discovered a rich copper mine in the area. The Vance Mines were open pit copper mine and they brought revenue and fast growth to the town, developing not only its upper class but its lower class as well. The wealthy families that came into Sundance to finance the new mines built up not only the 'Upper East Side' as they liked to call it (a salute to New York, which is where most of the families came from) but the downtown core as well. Really there had not even been a 'core' before and after fifteen year the city looked like any other in the world, except 'newer' as none of the major buildings were over 15 years old. The wealthy were not the only ones that flocked to Sundance; the Mines also brought a much lower class. There had to be people to work the mines and although most of the area's residents signed on the dotted line, they made up only maybe 2% of the people that the mine needed in order to operate. Thus lower income families flocked to the city, and the lines were drawn. Sundance’s glory was temporary as its population was mowed down by the virus and all of its materialistic progress fell into disuse. It was not long after the Ans virus when the survivors started to band together in different groups. They formed tribes and came up with names for themselves, each one unique and with their own ideas about the future of Sundance. Lines were drawn, just as they have always been throughout the world's history, but this time the lines were drawn quite differently. Each city, each person, has there own story to tell. This is the story of Sundance, Wyoming; the people who live there and the ones that are just passing through. |
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