Also, I will be glad to add lots of chaotic factions as they are possible. After all if you rubhave three humans together you already have three possible factions able to exclude someone else.
So map features, I am going with a coast of some kind, mostly grassland and jungle, small desert, some wasteland/burned land from the fall, very large, very dangerous chunk of ship, lots of scattered debris and such. Some regular mountains I guess? Any other terrain features for the local area?
maybe ponds of spilled chemicals from the shio?
Lakes of sentient nano paste, got it.
I mean, "normal chemicals", got it.
That sounds good, speaking of Nanotechnology, what if large storms of Biomass-consuming Nanobots would occasionally sweep across the land in a sci-fi parallel to hurricanes? And maybe, Acid Rain and Radiation Storms from the Wastes?
What if there were different Political Ideologies competing alongside the many different Cults? What if a large group of militant communists was waging war against several petty feudal kingdoms and tinpot dictatorships that propped themselves up after The Reckoning? Maybe a few AGIs want to build their own Empire and are using their Cultists and advanced Technology to do so, and are competing with some AGIs that have different goals. There would probably be a few marauder armies looting and pillaging across the wastes and I'd be surprised if banditry wasn't commonplace. Throw in family clans, nomadic (and not so nomadic) tribes, and the PC Factions and things would be pretty interesting...
Oh hey, sorry actually getting ahead of myself, let's go with settlements.
If everyone can give at least one so we have some different places to work with.
Each one should have at least one of:
• A name
• A unique resource/advantage
• A characteristic tradition
• A cultural taboo
For example, Dome. Built in the hallways and rooms surrounding one of the few surviving large scale bio-domes, this settlement is mostly free from mechanical menaces thanks to a functional and protective AI. The village mayor asks for advise from the AI constantly, but it rarely says anything useful, preferring to sing a haunting melody in a ruined concert hall most of the time. While the dome provides food and trade goods, do not stay there after dark, fel beasts are said to roam then.
Retrorsut, a fairly large, (200+ people) Settlement on the coast. It borders some Jungle and most, if not all of it's buildings are made from Jungle Wood, the very defensible central keep, however, is constructed from carved rock and space-age debris. Retrorsut is governed by Sutltes the Brash, a brutal, yet benevolent dictator with an iron fist. Retrorsut has a large wooden palisade and several guard towers watching over it, and it's military is small for the Settlement's size (20+), but very well trained and equipped, much of it's populace is armed and trained as well, a fact that's prevented many would be Monarchs from dominating the Settlement in the past. Retrorsut depends largely on fishing and trade to sustain itself, but many private gardens are cultivated and several hunters make a lucrative profit hunting in the Jungle and selling the meat.
Retrorsut is near several other large Settlements and is a convenient stop on a major trade route, two facts that lend themselves to a thriving marketplace. The Settlement is very wealthy by Post-Reckoning standards, and has access to large stockpiles of artifact technology and many high-quality trade goods. Retrorsut citizens pay hefty taxes to Sutltes the Brash, and all who enter the Settlement must pay a large fee to enter, entering at night isn't allowed, barring extreme circumstances. Non-citizens are not allowed to carry weapons in the Settlement, they are kept in a heavily defended cache near the Gate. They are also required to leave after 2 days unless they can justify staying, the process to become a Citizen is extremely long, complicated, and requires extensive "reeducation". Citizens are given a Tattoo of a golden crescent moon interlocked with a silver ring on their right arm, those entering and leaving the Settlement are required to show their arm to the Guards at the Gate to prove their Citizenship or lack of it.
The people of Retrorsut are very xenophobic towards outsiders, and though they tolerate merchants, they usually don't trust Non-citizens. Whenever someone enters the Settlement, they can feel eyes watching them at all times, and feel very unwelcome. The people of Retrorsut are quite introverted, quiet, and mild-mannered. Sutltes the Brash is anything but that, he's boisterous, loud, and prone to occassional bursts of temper, despite this, the people love him for bringing prosperity to Retrorsut. Every Citizen is given a free Education for twelve years from their fifth birthday, this mostly extends to combat training, basic mathematics, and literacy, but it's much more than most people get nowadays.
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