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Background
It happened like this, all those slocky science fiction and monster movies back in the fifty’s and sixties, thems the remnant of the world that was. Something happened back around world war two, the atomic age started and just kept right on going, super science, genetic engineering, giant radioactive monsters, invaders from dimension x, all that stuff. The cold war got called the Radium war back then because of all the radiation powered science being used by both sides, and that war ended up going hot. Both sides ended up using Quantum bombs, they was supposed to render things caught in their fields uncertain to the point they just fell apart into pure energy, then make a big ka-boom. Instead, they messed with the nature of reality itself so badly the whole dam universe shrugged. Everything associated with the Radium war, past and present got shuffled off to a parallel world. Back home all that super science suddenly got knocked back to the drawing board and all radiation does there anymore is treat cancer and heat up water in power plants, that and make people sick. Over here a bunch of people found themselves in inverted world, nobody is sure why, what was the lands are depths filled with salt water and the seas are dry land and mountains. And this ain’t the first time people and things got shuffled off here, there are ruins from a time when magic must have worked back on earth that was, then they must have done something that upset the natural order just like we did to get it all sent here. Those that got sent here last time lasted a while and built some things before they all vanished. Worries folk a mite that whatever made the old ones go away might be coming for us one day. Things were pretty bad right after the division. There was more monsters and mutants then people. One good thing about that is it did make people pull together. The Unification was a time of building up and civilizing. The Atlantic Republic pulled together most of the surviving Americans and their allies from over in Europe, its mostly just liberty city and some outposts and settlements, but we do a pretty good job of giving people a place to live free in relative safety. But there are other people out there, the mad scientists, the evil overlords, the bandit chiefs, and even some of them new fangled black magicians, all looking to take things away that from them that earned it. The first generation born here is all grown up now, time for them to take a stand and be the big dam heroes.
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