07-17-2018, 07:50 AM
[align=center][div style="text-align:justify;width:55%;font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana"]I'm going to be addressing what I think would make a good background because I'm a nerd for cold war history. The most obvious and probable kick-off point for a nuclear war would the Missile Crisis of 1962. The letters between Kennedy and Khrushchev could of arrived late, the naval blockade was attacked, some small change to the event which led to the US/USSR launching missiles at each other instead of de-escalating.
From that position, the US and USSR would receive most of the bombing, leading to a dead zone is Russia and the US, potentially. The resulting nuclear winter would, from scientific data & estimates, last ~20 years with the global temperature being a degree cooler than it was before the nuclear war. This would mean that the nuclear winter would end in 1982, leaving around 40 years of history that people would be able to play around in. Of course, it also allows a decent timeframe for civilizations to be established and conflicts to form, people to born solely after the bombs dropped.
Of course, the timeframes could be extended/shortened depending on what people want. Russia would still be radioactive, but the world would likely be beginning to return to pre-human states, massive forests and the like. Plant growth taking over abandoned cities like they should of done in Fallout cough cough.
As for powers, high doses of radiation mutate DNA which could lead to the powers? I'm honestly not sure about this one, powers aren't really my forte.
From that position, the US and USSR would receive most of the bombing, leading to a dead zone is Russia and the US, potentially. The resulting nuclear winter would, from scientific data & estimates, last ~20 years with the global temperature being a degree cooler than it was before the nuclear war. This would mean that the nuclear winter would end in 1982, leaving around 40 years of history that people would be able to play around in. Of course, it also allows a decent timeframe for civilizations to be established and conflicts to form, people to born solely after the bombs dropped.
Of course, the timeframes could be extended/shortened depending on what people want. Russia would still be radioactive, but the world would likely be beginning to return to pre-human states, massive forests and the like. Plant growth taking over abandoned cities like they should of done in Fallout cough cough.
As for powers, high doses of radiation mutate DNA which could lead to the powers? I'm honestly not sure about this one, powers aren't really my forte.
[b]IT'S EASIER TO BURY MY HEAD IN THE SAND SOMETIMES. AND I KNOW IT'S NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO GO BUT I PRAY THE GROUND WOULD SWALLOW ME WHOLE. — lucia & alisaie / inactive / playing ff14