Traction City, Anchorage by sentinal-5

sentinal-5

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30th Oct 2015

30th Oct 2015

Decimated by a plague, the once beautiful and prosperous ice-town of Anchorage, famous for its Scabious engines and the largest drive-wheel on the ice, is inhabited only by its young margravine Freya Rasmussen and just enough survivors to keep it moving.

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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  other settlements heard about Quirkus's metal behemoth and out of fear constructed their own to escape being overrun by the moving army base. they started developing ways to gather fuel and resources while moving and the vast doors at the front of their machines turned into jaws they could use to scrape away at mountains without ever needing to truly stop.
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  yes, yes it is.
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  however, construction delays, the rioting Londoners, and the approaching Arkangelsk led to the city becoming less of a gleaming and beautiful wedding cake and more of a hunched, grimy, cramped beast with giant caterpillar tracks, smoke stacks and vast doors on its front to let the Scriven landships in and out of the great under tier
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  Qwert_Yuiop 31st Oct 2015
  Arkangelsk? Is that somehow related to the town of Arkhangelsk, Russia?
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  Quirkus asked Godshawk to help him build a giant steel landship of sorts to allow both their peoples to escape the impending war with the Arkangelsk tribe together and become the most powerful Nomad nation on earth. They bought all the metal they could afford and began construction of their gleaming white pillar of a landship.
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  One such tribe of Scriven (genius but self-entitled people slightly mutated by leaving their bunkers early and absorbing radiation, identifiable by their height, pale skin, large eyes and huge freckles) ruled by a human named Nikola Quirkus, approached the troubled but powerful town of New-London in the swamp that was once england with its self-proclaimed Scriven leader Auric Godshawk.
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  hundreds of years later, it was barely safe enough to form more permanent settlements, and some did. By this point there was nobody left in the bunkers. they'd either all left or been trapped and died. there were several thousand ramshackle settlements dotted around the plant and most of the more powerful Nomadic tribes were still marching their way along in their land-ships (like small houses on wheels that look a lot like old galleons)
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  Qwert_Yuiop 31st Oct 2015
  whoa (comment too short)
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  The more powerful tribes began to create farms of sorts, any animal that could walk could be herded along with the people and their tents and carts full of supplies. now of course more mouths to feed means more food needed, so they had to use large caravans pulled by the mammoth-like ancestors of modern elephants which had survived and evolved rapidly to survive in the now ice and fast changing environment of the swollen ice-caps
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  sentinal-5 31st Oct 2015
  When people finally started to imerge from their vaults deep beneath the ground, it was impossible to live in a single place for more than a week without it being destroyed by some unnatural disaster triggered by the long-term effects of the 60 minute war hundreds of years ago. All of humanity lived in small nomadic tribes that were continually running from the death their ancestors had unleashed.