(OOC here:l<a class="postlink-local" href="https://creativefreedomrpg.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&amp;t=51784">viewtopic.php?f=23&amp;t=51784</a>l)<br/><br/>Nobody really cares anymore which year it is. Giving the year a number is just as useless as counting the grains of sand in the surrounding nothingness. It is only important to know that it is as it is and that it will most likely stay that way. Fact is that the sky has a greyish purple colour. Why is it not that forgotten blue anymore? This is of no concern anymore. There has not been anyone alive that has ever seen that blue for a long time already. Well, maybe there is one but it is not like he will be of any help. And even if, what use does a blue sky have anyway?<br/>Fact is that the ground is not fertile. Everything has died long ago. The government has found ways to cultivate edible plants artificially. However, production is scarce. Meat is gained from cloning and trapping vermin, like rats, which seems to be the only living creatures who are still thriving. Only the government has the equipment to pump up ground water and filter it. Rainfalls are welcomed, yet as this water is not completely pure, it is still drinkable. The people have to work hard to get a share. They work on maintaining machines for the government, making clothes by order of the government, doing waste recycling for the government, etc. There is almost no job that doesn’t have to do with the government.<br/>Fact is that the government is the most powerful. Anyone that doesn’t want to starve works for the government. Anyone that doesn’t want to disappear does not talk bad about the government. The government is in control of all the resources and the military. Opposing the government means that you will not have access to food, water, electricity, or protection. It also means persecution by the military. Those that oppose often find themselves being sold at slave markets or killed. There is no democracy and no voting takes place to choose the next generation of the government. And thus nothing will change.<br/>Fact is that there are not nearly as many humans left as there have once been. It has been like that for a while now. In the past, due to technical advances, humanity prospered. Back then, when the sky was still blue, something happened. Something that made the ground infertile. Something that destroyed nature as it was known. Whether or not it had anything to do with the new colour of the sky is not clear. Without nature, there was no food. Nothing for the humans to consume anymore. This caused the humans to go at war. Maybe it was lucky for them that they had succeeded in disarming all nuclear weapons way before then, maybe it would have been for the better if they had not. Many humans died. By far the most of them died. Most humans had died, most cities had fallen into ruins or had completely burned down. Those that were left gathered at the few cities that were left. The government fought and united those cities and it has been like that ever since. With the war having been long in the past already, humanity just tries to survive like they always have.<br/>Fact is that a lot of the technology from the past is still existent. Most of it is broken or otherwise non-functional. What use do those satellites have when there are no mobile phones anymore? The technology that still works is rundown and old by the standard of this time. There is just no space for inventions. All houses have those ‘swish’ doors that open automatically, but most of them creak. Computers and robots work, but without internet or remote controls they need to be operated manually. Maintaining the current technology takes a lot of effort since everything seems to be covered by dust. Dust is everywhere. Outside the cities there is nothing else but dust. Only the buildings directly under the government seems to be working just fine, with less dust.<br/>Fact is that the definition of ‘human’ has become a little more broad. Before the last war, creatures appeared that seemed to be part human part animal. Some had more animal characteristics than others. Still, the resemblance to normal humans was undeniable. Back then some believed them to be part of a failed experiment. Now their origin does not matter anymore. They exist. They are being looked down on. Being classified as not being completely human and thus ‘non-human’. Since they exist, they have to work just as hard as ‘complete humans’ to get their share to survive, or maybe even harder. The government doesn’t officially treat them any different. However, the government itself only consists of humans with no non-human having ever attained  an important spot.<br/>Fact is that these facts have been in place for a long time already. They have been established in the past and will probably continue to exist in the future. What matters for the normal citizens is that they work hard as to get food, water, electricity, and protection in order to survive and see yet another grey day. What matters for the government is that the processes of gaining resources get optimized in order to be able to feed the citizens and to be able to strengthen their own power. That their military power gets strengthened in order to prosecute those that oppose them and to enact their power. What matters to the small group of people that are rumoured to oppose the government is yet unknown. Do they want power? Gain access over the resources for themselves? Or do they have the seemingly impossible wish to try and change how the world is for the better or the worse?