Showing posts with label The World of Robotech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The World of Robotech. Show all posts
After the Zentraedi assault on the planet Earth, the long, arduous task of rebuilding lives and civilization began. Much of the world was totally and completely decimated. In the North American Sector, Alaska and the western states were obliterated. With the exceptions of Iceland, Scotland, Ireland and parts of Germany, Poland, Scandinavia and Russia, the European Sector was wiped out. Even today, several years later, the once proud nations of England, France, Italy, Turkey and the entire Mediterranean, Middle East and Northern Africa, are little more than barren wastelands and deserts. Most of China and the rest of Asia shares a similar fate. Only the occasional, shattered wall of a building, or half buried basement stand as mute testaments of the civilization which once thrived.
Only Japan, Indonesia, Australia and parts of Canada were spared the annihilation which plunged the rest of the world into a second dark age. Although war torn, they would be among the first to recover and rebuild. However, it is a very different world than the one previously known.
As one might imagine the world was locked in chaos. The one, Unified World Government was destroyed, as were the most of the regional governing bodies. The RDF and what remnants of world governments which still survived, represented the only vestiges of law and order. The first few years after the holocaust were filled with the chore of simple survival. Burying and burning the dead, combatting disease and pestilence, treating the infirm, building or finding shelter, reestablishing communication, transportation, producing and distributing food, defense against looters and bandits, as well as Zentraedi, were the things that would occupy the world for years. Starvation and disease would claim the lives of thousands. Thousands more would die in wild civil wars and acts of barbarism.
It has been only recently that the world's people have attained some semblance of their old world. With this return to normalcy, new cities, named after the old, begin to grow and prosper. The Unified World Government has been reestablished, but with less than satisfactory results. Several independent states, nations such as the Soviets, refuse to rejoin the Unified World Government. Mounting political unrest threatens its continued existence. Already a handful of political and military factions have broken from the new government to create socalled "Baronies", small, often tiny, self-proclaimed, self-governing, political entities. Political unrest and aggressive new leaders have made the future of the one world government a precarious one. Some politically astute scholars have predicted the total collapse of the unification movement within the next decade. In its place will be a sort of new feudal order, seeing a plethora of independent, self-sufficient baronies, linked by treaties, sworn alliances, and industrial and military superiority.
The wastelands are areas of land which were subjected to severe bombardment during the Zentraedi planetary attack. Most of these regions were once major population centers, cities or military installations. Today, they are dead zones occupied by renegades, outlaws, Zentraedi and nomads.
Geographically, the features of the wastelands with the exception of climate, are the same throughout the world. They are vast expanses of cracked and blistered earth, dust bowls, deserts, or great plains of low grass and shrubs potted with scattered blast craters. Typically, such craters can measure as small as one mile (1.6km), to as large as 20 miles (32.18km) across and a quarter of a mile deep.
Broken slabs of concrete, melted steel and gnarled fingers of twisted and mangled buildings dot some areas of the wastelands. These are the remnants of a lost civilization. The tombstones that mark once sprawling metropolises. It is here that scavengers or nomads can sometimes be found exploring buried basements, subways, parking garages, and other subterranean constructions. Some of the nomads and gangs use the dwellings as temporary settlements or shelters. The larger and more ambitious groups have been known to dig connecting tunnels to the various underground structures. One recently discovered tunnel complex in the North American Sector connected 27 different dwelling areas, and had 15 different escape/access hatches covering a 900ft (270m) area and housing 250 scavengers.
Despite popular myths about buried treasure and forgotten wonders, the wastelands are dangerous and barren lands devoid of treasure and life. The damaged soil and polluted waters can support only the most meager of foliage and fauna. Low levels of radiation permeate these regions. Although not deadly, subjection to prolonged exposure (a few months) without protection can result in a variety of cancers, particularly skin cancer, and sterilization.
The territories in the North American Sector include what was once the United States of America, Canada and Greenland. With the exception of the Far East Sector, it is the most technologically advanced and self-reliant of the surviving world nations. Conditioned for war by the global civil conflict of the 1990's, this sector had an established military/ political machine geared for the sole purpose of quickly rebuilding cities. Of course, much of the reconstruction operations network was destroyed, but enough survived to get the heavily decimated sector back on its feet.
Lost in the planetary assault was the west and east coasts of the entire continent. Wasteland and deserts stretch from Alaska to the Baja Peninsula and through what were the States of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. Likewise the entire eastern seaboard extending west through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and parts of Michigan, Ontario and Quebec are nothing more than mangled cities and parched earth.
Near what was once Calgary, Alberta, Canada is the historic site of the SDF-1 (and SDF-2 and New Macross city). The battle fortress and the neighboring city of New Macross, have been buried and classified off limits. Radiation levels are in the danger zone for human life and the ruins hold classified, R.D.F. technology. The Army of the Southern Cross patrols the area.
The site of another, major R.D.F. base is at New Albuquerque. This is a strategic location, placing the base within immediate striking distance of the South American Sector border, Arkansas Protectorate and wastelands. It can also support both the Yellowstone and Mexico City bases.
The base is responsible for routinely patroling the western wastelands, and the area which was once Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado, Arkansas, Missouri and the western states (now wasteland). The city of New Albuquerque is a newly constructed metropolis of about 280,000 humans and 2200 micronized Zentraedi. Tech level is state of the art, with a modest manufacturing center. The community's main industry is drilling and refining petroleum.
Government Affiliation: A strong supporter of the R.D.F. and the Unification movement.
Cuba has been transformed into an industrial manufacturing center for the North American Sector. Tech level is equal to the late 1990's. Two, small, R.D.F. outposts with one Veritech squad (5 fighters) and two dozen or so Destroids; each are located at opposite ends of the island. Two, giant, submersible combat ships, like the Prometheus and Daedalus, are usually stationed here.
Included in the Cuban Quadrant are Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Government Affiliation: Highly supportive of the R.D.F. and the Unification movement.
1. The North American Sector
Includes Canada and the U.S.A. Scattered communities with major industrial clusters.
2. The South American Sector
Mostly jungle with pockets of civilization. It is believed to have the greatest concentration of Zentraedi in the world.
3. Northern Euro Sector
Includes the Scandinavian countries and the E.B.S.I.S. The white areas on the map represent habitable areas, the black is wasteland.
4. Africa Sector
Most unpopulated, a combination of desert and jungle.
5. The Far East Sector
This is the most populated and technologically advanced sector in the world. The Robotech Research Center is located in the Japan Quadrant.
6. The Eastern Sector
Includes India, China, Indonesia and Australia.
Includes Canada and the U.S.A. Scattered communities with major industrial clusters.
2. The South American Sector
Mostly jungle with pockets of civilization. It is believed to have the greatest concentration of Zentraedi in the world.
3. Northern Euro Sector
Includes the Scandinavian countries and the E.B.S.I.S. The white areas on the map represent habitable areas, the black is wasteland.
4. Africa Sector
Most unpopulated, a combination of desert and jungle.
5. The Far East Sector
This is the most populated and technologically advanced sector in the world. The Robotech Research Center is located in the Japan Quadrant.
6. The Eastern Sector
Includes India, China, Indonesia and Australia.
A. Site of the SDF and Southern Cross headquarters.
B. Quebec Quadrant: An independent nation.
C. Arkansas Protectorate: Zentraedi dominated.
D. Mexico Quadrant: Widely populated.
E. Venezuela Quadrant: Modest population.
F. Zentraedi Control Zone: Widely populated by hostile Zentraedi and criminal activity. Dense jungle terrain.
G. Brazilia Quadrant: Scattered population with some major industrial facilities and RDF bases.
H. The Argentine Quadrant: Widely populated, it is the hub of Zentraedi control operations with several RDF and Southern Cross bases, as well as international embassies, support and mercenaries.
I. Scandinavia Quadrant: Includes Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Widely populated (almost overcrowded). This Quadrant was remarkably untouched by the Zentraedi attack. Industry and technology levels are high. Norway is the site of a major Southern Cross base.
J. The E.B.S.I.S., a.k.a Eastern Bloc Soviet Independent State: Includes what is left of Germany, Poland and the U.S.S.R. Black areas represent wastelands.
K. Congo Quadrant: The site of much, recent, Zentraedi activity. Mostly jungle.
L. India Quadrant: Much poverty; the site of recent Zentraedi activity.
M. Manchurian Quadrant: A feudal, independent kingdom. A mix of high and low technology. Scattered communities; mostly grassland.
N. China Quadrant: Modestly populated, and has a low technology level. Site of increasing Zentraedi activity.
O. Indochina Quadrant: Includes Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaya. Mostly jungle which harbors large numbers of Zentraedi.
P. Indonesia Quadrant: Includes Sumatra, Philippines and New Guinea.
Q. Australia Quadrant; a major industrial center.
Note: Black areas on the map represent vast wastelands resulting from the Zentraedi planetary attack. White areas represent habitable areas.
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