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The Ash Shall Settle
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The Ash Shall Settle

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Author:zarkovik
Status:ongoing
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The world of 2090 is a symphony of despair and vengeance, where dreams of unity and progress lie in shattered ruins. Humanity, fractured and dwindled, limps through an age of ruin, haunted by the promises of a bygone golden era. The scars of the Great War have left nations as shadows of their former selves, their borders defined not by geography but by fear, hunger, and wrath. The fire of ambition, once a beacon, now fuels wars of revanchism and control, as vengeance becomes the language of survival. Across this fractured landscape, scavengers, criminals, and the desperate pick at the bones of a dying world, seeking survival in a sea of poverty and ruin.  Across the globe, humanity teeters on the edge of chaos and extinction. The Saxon Zoonotic Shift reshapes ecosystems, as genetically engineered monstrosities and displaced wildlife vie for survival. Millers swarm across the land, feeding the desperate masses, while cerebral crashers erode what remains of human intellect. The Yellow Plague lingers like a shadow, sapping the strength of entire continents. Amid this biological upheaval, techno-cults revere the remnants of a once-glorious age, while whispers of a sentient digital mind haunt the battlegrounds of North America. Nations exist in varying states of decay and tyranny. The United States of America clings to order through repression to chase unattainable and naive ideas. In Asia, the Celestial Harmony, its ambitions unyielding, asserts control through technological supremacy. Russia’s megacorporate oligarchs rule over a starving populace from industrial citadels. Once the cradle of the Second Roaring Twenties, Europe stands as a graveyard of its enlightenment. From its ashes rises the National State of France, a phoenix reborn not in hope but in hate. The continent’s former ideals of unity and progress are crushed beneath the boot of totalitarian nationalism. The four powers threaten to lock horns in an inevitable conflict that could bring the world to its knees once more.  The Earth groans under the weight of its wounds, its skies darkened by smoke, its seas choked with blood. Yet, in the shadow of despair, the embers of human tenacity flicker. A world of vengeance and ruin stands poised between oblivion and resurrection, its destiny uncertain, its soul fractured. Whether humanity will rise again to touch the stars or drown in its hatred remains an open wound upon the pages of history, bleeding into an uncertain future.