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CaptainChewbacca wrote:Dear god in heaven. 80% of the US survives, and almost no one else.

About 50 percent; population of America in 2045 was about 400 million; about 200 million survivors. The real slaughterhouse was China and India; a combination of dense populations, very poor medical systems and they got hit first before anybody realized what it was they were dealing with. The disease epidemics spread out of control - horribly so. They were also genetically unstable so they kept mutating into either treatment-resistant forms of the original diseases or new ones entirely. So wave after wave of diseases swept out, across areas already devastated by the ones that went before. They spread back into the Caliphate of course and the combination of lack of modern medical facilities, dense populations and low living standards were critical there also. Added in the fact that when the Americans found out The Caliphate was responsible for the catastrophe, they bombed the whole place into oblivion. Destroyed all the population centers and everything that could support the remaining.

This story is actually quite old; it was originally written a couple of years ago but was sitting on a back-burner. I'm rewriting it so it falls into the TBOverse but that's all the changes. It reflects my belief that it is biological warfare, especially the use of genetic engineering in biological warfare, that is the real danger to the future of humanity. If we don't get a grip on that issue, it could easily destroy us all.

Colonel Olrik wrote:I have this feeling that Europe's position in the world has been downgraded from vacation place to vast, empty desert

Not quite, badly battered but still there. Now loosely associated with Russia.

Oh noes!!! the board it's on won't load for me

Still down...

They're working for me now. Go check now, DD, if you haven't already.

Still won't work for me. It tries to load but the connection keeps timing out.

There's a problem on your end then. Check your own settings, if that doesn't fix it, there may be a router down somewhere on your path.

Crayz9000 wrote:There's a problem on your end then. Check your own settings, if that doesn't fix it, there may be a router down somewhere on your path.

I can't think of anything I've done. Can someone copy and paste the story into a PM and send it to me?

Never mind. I found a list of public proxies. I'll just use a http proxy every time there's a new chapter and then go back to a direct connection at all other times. Thanks for the helpfull ness.

Just curious has there been any other updates as of yet on the interstellar highway.

SpecWar826 wrote:Just curious has there been any other updates as of yet on the interstellar highway.

No; the first part was basically a teaser, so it may be a while before any additional parts are posted.

ok thnxs

I'm looking forward to Patron of the Arts and the end of High Frontier before we get to Interstellar Highway. Hopefully, Ride of the Valkyries will also be done before we get to the future. Better to wrap up the past first.

As far as I can tell, starting more than one story at a time is one of the fastest ways for an author to not finish any story, or at least get things mixed up.

technomage wrote:I'm looking forward to Patron of the Arts and the end of High Frontier before we get to Interstellar Highway. Hopefully, Ride of the Valkyries will also be done before we get to the future. Better to wrap up the past first.

As far as I can tell, starting more than one story at a time is one of the fastest ways for an author to not finish any story, or at least get things mixed up.

From what Stuart has said, I believe he plans on finishing Hight Frontier soon enough. "Patron of the Arts" is a short story and he's been doing those in between for a while. And from what I've heard it's going to Ride of the Valkyries after High Frontier. And I'm not sure about when Interstellar Highway is going to be done but it's less a TBO than an adapated science fiction story.

Sorry Stuart if I'm answering more than you want.

MKSheppard wrote:Germania Delenda Est - 1955 Map

That drives home the amount of destruction very nicely.

MKSheppard wrote:Germania Delenda Est - 1955 Map

holy shit. .

shep, can we get a map of borders in 2000?

MKSheppard wrote:Germania Delenda Est - 1955 Map

Well, the Ruhr Valley got well and thoroughly fucked, didn't it?

RedImperator wrote:

MKSheppard wrote:Germania Delenda Est - 1955 Map

Well, the Ruhr Valley got well and thoroughly fucked, didn't it?

That's putting it mildly. It got fucked sideways with a rusty telephone pole, with sand instead of lube.

Enforcer Talen wrote:shep, can we get a map of borders in 2000?

Not for a while, I have an idea of what the place looks around then, but I don't want to get ahead of myself.

Crayz9000 wrote:

RedImperator wrote:

MKSheppard wrote:Germania Delenda Est - 1955 Map

Well, the Ruhr Valley got well and thoroughly fucked, didn't it?

That's putting it mildly. It got fucked sideways with a rusty telephone pole, with sand instead of lube.

Ow, ow, ow, ow, OWWW!

And I thought the town of Tristram was assraped in Diablo 2.

RedImperator wrote:Well, the Ruhr Valley got well and thoroughly fucked, didn't it?

TBO wrote:Much of the country though, especially the Ruhr Valley, was still a wasteland.

The Great Game wrote:However, some areas are still heavily contaminated and must be avoided. The Ruhr Valley is one of these, this area is considered uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.

Crusade wrote:The Ruhr Valley was a blasted and lethal ruin, the Rhine was a polluted mess, the lovely Black Forest, Germany's lungs, was blasted and burned.