The Powder Toy

Traction City, Anchorage by 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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Comments

  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     31st Oct 2015
    The super-weapons we used tore the very continents we know today into pieces, seperating north and south america, turning asia into a collection of a million tiny islands, and making north america (particularly around DC and areas of millitary significance) completely unsurvivable for millenia. there were vast earthquakes reverberating through the planet for hundreds of years echoing the blasts of tectonic weapons and radiation storms bleaching anything in their path.
  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     31st Oct 2015
    Roughly 500 years in our future there is a war, named the 60 minute war by the people in the Traction Era. so-called because after one hour of fighting there was nobody left to fire the weapons. everyone who was not dead was locked in a nuclear bunker deep underground, or stored as a DNA sequence in massive data banks buried near the poles for cloning after the fallout had passed. In the space of one hour we had wiped our civilisation as we knew it entirely off the planet.
  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     31st Oct 2015
    @Quert_Yuiop oh you've opened a can of worms on this one.. prepare for a wall of lore.
  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     31st Oct 2015
    @jakob1 thanks, now you make one, let's see how stupidly easy it is then huh? :) @Quert_Yuiop thanks :b
  • hazaiscool98
    hazaiscool98     31st Oct 2015
    Who is viewing this using the snapshot versions (Weird Q IK)
  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     31st Oct 2015
    @Aegis12314 Ah i see you've read them ;) but it's funny you should ask that.. because i'm building it right now!
  • Qwert_Yuiop
    Qwert_Yuiop     31st Oct 2015
    Just a question: why would people even want to make cities self-propelling, apart from "that looks just so awesome"? And +1 of course
  • Aegis12314
    Aegis12314     31st Oct 2015
    just wondering sentinal, where is the limpet that was attached to the bottom?
  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     31st Oct 2015
    @PULSAR thank you! @oldmud0 thanks :D i try to make all my traction saves as accurate as i can. @gbasilva thank you! but it's not really a deviation since ice-towns are common. although this one is rather special with its snow-plow jaw, miraculous engines, and giant drive-wheel. (oh, and thanks :) but they're not snowmobiles, look how big they are. they're sounding rigs. they carry five people, listening equipment and a heavy pile to slam into the ice and find out how thick it is)
  • Korteweg
    Korteweg     31st Oct 2015
    Spotted the snowmobiles, nice detail.