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How long to rebuild civilisation after an all out nuclear war?
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<blockquote data-quote="Warden_of_the_Storm" data-source="post: 75129532" data-attributes="member: 381462"><p>Okay, let me give the synopsis of the Metro 2033 series books to you:</p><p>In an alternate timeline, after a decades spanning cold war that eventually turned hot between Russia and NATO, a nuclear war happened, which destroyed the large cities of Russia. In Moscow, a portion of the population fled underground to the Moscow Metro which, following the orders of the Soviet government in the Cold War proper, saw many of the stations revamped to have tight locking gates on the station tunnels and also life-sustaining systems to double their function as nuclear fallout shelters. This was true of other large cities in Russia too.</p><p></p><p>Come the following nuclear winter, the population of Moscow that survived began to eke out a living which then saw many stations become... well, city-states in a way. For example, the stations on the so-called Koltsevaya Line or Ring Line of the Metro became known as the Hanseatic League or Hanza, establishing themselves as traders and a sort of defacto government in the Metro.</p><p>Other factions included the obligatory Fourth Reich Nazis and the Red Line Communist line (you can guess what the conflict from them is), the paramilitary Rangers of the Order of Polis (defacto peacekeepers), obligatory bandits and independent stations.</p><p></p><p>Technology in the story runs the gamut of simple radios with car batteries, left over diesel engines used on boats and makeshift rail trolleys, coal burning rail trolleys and hand push cars too. </p><p></p><p>Also, there is obviously no way that human civilization is going to return fully after only 30 years after a nuclear war. All the book does is show humans surviving in a civilization they have created with what they have in the metro.</p><p></p><p>I will say that the books are good, though the Russian style of writing sometimes translates a bit weirdly into English, but the games are good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warden_of_the_Storm, post: 75129532, member: 381462"] Okay, let me give the synopsis of the Metro 2033 series books to you: In an alternate timeline, after a decades spanning cold war that eventually turned hot between Russia and NATO, a nuclear war happened, which destroyed the large cities of Russia. In Moscow, a portion of the population fled underground to the Moscow Metro which, following the orders of the Soviet government in the Cold War proper, saw many of the stations revamped to have tight locking gates on the station tunnels and also life-sustaining systems to double their function as nuclear fallout shelters. This was true of other large cities in Russia too. Come the following nuclear winter, the population of Moscow that survived began to eke out a living which then saw many stations become... well, city-states in a way. For example, the stations on the so-called Koltsevaya Line or Ring Line of the Metro became known as the Hanseatic League or Hanza, establishing themselves as traders and a sort of defacto government in the Metro. Other factions included the obligatory Fourth Reich Nazis and the Red Line Communist line (you can guess what the conflict from them is), the paramilitary Rangers of the Order of Polis (defacto peacekeepers), obligatory bandits and independent stations. Technology in the story runs the gamut of simple radios with car batteries, left over diesel engines used on boats and makeshift rail trolleys, coal burning rail trolleys and hand push cars too. Also, there is obviously no way that human civilization is going to return fully after only 30 years after a nuclear war. All the book does is show humans surviving in a civilization they have created with what they have in the metro. I will say that the books are good, though the Russian style of writing sometimes translates a bit weirdly into English, but the games are good. [/QUOTE]
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