Antarctic City; Mutations and Machinery

Just setting this to zero, and starting the idea.

Everyone lives in gigantic solar powering buildings, all inside a slowly enveloping dome of solar cells...I like Post sci fi, which is sometimes what Post Apocalypse is, though Dystopia is a better name.

Thats just my two cents on what world I would like: not too far future, post catastrophe, where everything is broken. Ballard is a good example, but Ballard is about broken psyches and mutations of values that ruin humanity or are the ruin of humanity, as if the broken world created a value set that did not work either, and also broke people.
Frequently, they cannot communicate in an intersubjective way: this is saying communication between individuals is only about individuals communicating, and in so intense and sober and monotone frame, restricted by some weird post sci fi value mental confusion, even that communication becomes impossible, though its reduction to just the same represents a broken society.
Individualism in excess, or even Nihilism societies...Ballard describes therese...and therein...that kind of dytopia.

However, it is not Joss Whedon. Joss borrows this from table top games, as if the characters had backstories, which are slowly revealed through the emotions that are now the only result.

So, Whedon's answer is not the Absurdist, which Ballard slides into too much. However, that setting is highly useful from creating a brand new intersubjective world setting.
Its as if everything is off.

"So, we start out in a dystopian future where everything is broken...more or less..and, we as individuals care less to speak to each other and care more about our own, perhaps quotidian, but certainly self interested actions and speeches, above the others."
"Excellent start."
"Its Rehearsal and Respawn? As terms?"
"Sure."
"Sounds good."




APOCALYPSE INC.

XOMBIES

Three phases of development...the brain dead body on the table, kept alive by machine, the brain dead body on its feet, kept alive by the machine, and the brain dead body doing tasks kept alive by the machine.


Societies wars were staged in order to justify surgically removing bad genes.
This time, it was the war over those who accepted programmed-world views.
But like Lem's Futurological Congress, except voluntary, combined with mechanically enhanced self contained environments...sorta like controlling speech like in Religious communities , virtual realities imposed over the optic nerves. All three effects, psychopharmetceutical drugs, controlled environments and Virtuality imposed over the actual, is termed the Artificial Reality...all three add up and compose another layer of illusion.
All in all "The Cyborg World".
Unimaginately violent, sexual, transgressive, with very little value. The goal is to get control of the Nuclear Weapons...which is impossible but it is the goal of the game, in order to destroy the world.

We men create this other world (in an underground facility) in order to create and manage and examine and be amused by, the eventual evolutionary advance, by way of Mutation and Machinery, our own destruction in order to contain it, mock it, and forestall it.

We allow volunteers to go into that world, we do not tell them when they will come out. Frequently, people never do and are destroyed, and, we erase any sense of having been here. So that once you go in, you do not understand that there is another world. Though, the best of us always conceive of it.

It is all approved by a secret council and of course, based on the massive population that now forms huge hundred story malls encircling the Arctic; one continuous city all slowly expanding south into the lifeless scortching sand dunes, and expanding north under the water. When it was built too high and was collapsed and abandoned to roving bands, we decided to keep the buildings low...saves on materials.

Likewise, a similar massive city but on the continent of Antarctica, which draws in to higher and higher building all working on a Space Elevator. But those people send us volunteers for our Future Genetic Man arena.

So, in these two worlds, Arctic and Antarctic, there is naturally the remains of languages and artifacts, all brought over on transport, of only a few Nations, and even those clinging on to Traditions of the past diminish in the necessities of adapting to the future.

However, they have been jammed together and mixing and participating in extreme Urbanity and space shortage.
So, its like Concentration City, but beyond the edged of the Antarctic City, a hurricane wall, and otherwise hurricanes that sweep across the almost all the time somewhere...its a big disk.

Massive wind farms top the two thousand tall interwebbed...one could walk from Western Antarctica to McMurdo Underwater base without leaving the ultra stacked up but impoverished city.

Meanwhile, the first studies initiated right before Asteroid-Nuclear War-Warming Wars and Famines...which all happen in a generation...the circuitry to control a dead body as mere walking vegetable, developed.
2050.
Then, the limbic was activated with another advance in programming and computer interface sensitivity, and that created zombies. Walking, but not really capable of running, leaping...though, capable of grabbing and biting.
By 2070 the Apocalypse had settled down...but meanwhile Xombies, increasing interface and artificial life paired with dead humanity...these Xombies are now equipped with remotes that enable ghoulish behavior...these ghouls are directed by swarms of security drones, who shoot darts into living people that transmit the signal that turns them into lifelong ghouls.

So, you dont just ride the trains to wherever you feel like. Some places are empty due to diseases, some are empty due to the mass conversion of its population to Ghouls. Some have roving bands of hostile tribes.

MORE ON ELECTRONIC XOMBIES
Okay, so, first, the machine merely keeps autonomic systems active. The body is essentially a vegetable and in fact, a robot head can be attached.
The next progress is it keeps basic sympathetic systems active...the body walks and eats and breaths and mates, but with no sense of hygene or language. No violence though, the amygdala and other emotional parts are shut off. Kinda like Replicants...but, they just dont care to remember or learn language.
Third, they are Lizardian insofar as acting like ghouls...leaping, climbing, yelling, making noises, but rarely using language and cannibals, really. These hunt you down.
Fourth, they are subdued and entirely incapable of mounting violence, respond to simple commands, but do have some rudimentary intelligence. Some "Bartleby's" in here would be good.
Or, they are trained to inhabit military equipment and follow orders...they have no consciousness of self yet.
Finally, they are allowed consciousness of self, when the last closest slave to the controllers, which is a fully conscious normal person, but they are kept in so many states of drugged consciousness, that they have developed multiple personalities just due to being switched off and on...so, by the suspension of unconsciouss wakefulness ala such drugs as used by the CIA; scopoloamine, GABA, etc, the final slave awakens and sees he begins at the bottom of things...everyone around him has been more free, they own time not ever torn by drugged enslavement in order to commit crimes for others.
But once awakened the slave wont pursue that...all the awakening requires is believing that such drugs have the power to erase your memory even while you are a minimal slave, on your feet and completely willing to do whatever is told. Then you may know not to take them.
Others are trapped in a web you see.

But anyway, all these slaves are portrayed.
So thats
The body with the machine head.
The body is a bug.
The body is a lizard; hunts you down.
The body is a robot.
The body is normal, not mutated into slavery, but drugged unconscious to be used by others
The body is awakened

So I think I have one, HAROLD, who is a bug, with a machine head, who hunts you down.
JACK is a Robot Bug with a machine head.
INTRUDER is a normal, but disabled like a bug, by conscioussness being used by others. It is hard to portray that and that is not well portrayed yet.
So, such an exercise.

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In each part of this world is managed behind the scenes, which is where we are with Inky.
Inky, who knows the ancient tunnels and by-ways and secret passages.
Inky is the only one he knows who knows but he suspects that others might...its not public. And, the knowledge has mostly died.
Operates independently in increasing degrees until the most independent are revealed to be decadent insiders in the two cities (with its whacky biological reversal of pressure), or, who have inherited Clone/Cryo facilities in remote area...which are singular descendants barely surviving,
OR
There are areas in the city in the Poles where different arrangement of these orders occur just in different areas of the city. ten thousand single one of these kind of facilities, more or less supplying clone banks...along with the New You facilities and Cryo banks plundered, these ten types then mean 10 of these Bio engineering facilities, which can be one of those mentioned above, but occur in one every 1,000 people.
Most are Clone banks/Medical. People are living to 200, but there is little good tech with youthfulness.

There is a clinic, though, on this corner of the Post Apocalypse....in the Baffin part of Arctic City, a piled stone tower rising above an even higher wall of piled stone. Within it glowed tiger eye yellow, with flashes of radiation green.


A good deal of the North Pole city is flat and descendes into the water. As it is a city that surround the entirety of the edge of the North Pole cities, after radical global warming...this city is so populated that it abuts the desertificiation that divides Greenland's north from south, and also runs down under the water and out onto the edge of the continental shelf, with towers and boat islands fanning out like Water lilies.