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Tallant's World
Mar. 2nd, 2011 11:47 amIt is 53 years into the ongoing millennial apocalypse. 51 years since the death of the last and most disastrously failed President of the formerly United States. Where the revolution against him failed, the virus called Ebola Honduras Strain-9 wrought spectacular success. With a 97% fatality rate for those infected, the populace was annihilated and the government destroyed. War, Pestilence, Famine, Death. The old world has passed, its survivors still dwindling daily, the new world yet to be born. In the interim, the world's decaying citires are now run by uninfected gangs with guns. To escape the virus, they say, is to catch a bullet. In Gotham City, the Raggy Boyz and a dozen others rule...the paramilitary police force perhaps the weakest of them all. The Batman is dead. But in Honduras...Ra's Al Ghul...is still immortal.
At the turn of the millenium, Ra's Al Ghul released the Ebola Honduras Strain-9 virus as a way to take over the world. He wished to reduce the world's population to a mere 23 million people, which he deemed to be optimal for a balance between man and nature. Or, in other words, kill off 89% of the world's population. 53 years later, the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. Governments have toppled, Gotham City is in flames and anarchy rules the day. For 27 years, Batman fought to protect the rapidly destabilizing Gotham, but was decapitated by Ra's Al Ghul shortly after the birth of his son Tallant, his cowled head left on a pike on the Wayne Manor gate. All of his allies, except for Oracle, died somewhere between the start of the outbreak and the start of Brotherhood of the Bat, most likely due to the Strain 9 virus. Heroes in other areas either retired (like Oracle) or died as well.
The major gangs in the now lawless city are the Raggy Boyz, and the Mohawks, who treat the ruined streets like their own personal playground. There is one other--the City Commandos, a group which claims to be the city's peacekeeping force, inhabiting what used to be the police headquarters, but in fact are just as corrupt as all the other gangs in the city. What few citizens are left (and can afford it) live in gated buildings with armed guards.
Power is still functional in parts of the city, and there is one functional television station (now called a vid-feeds), which is owned and oeprated by the City Commandos. There are emergency Food Centers to distribute food. Depending on how much the average citizen had before the outbreak or had managed to scavange before the city went up in flames, they may also have a variety of entertainment items (ex. books, exercise equipment, board games), as well as weapons and ammunition.
Following the quick rise and fall of the Brotherhood of the Bat in Gotham City, Tallant, as Batman, has taken over control of the city just long enough to establish a new order before bringing elections back to the city for the first time in half a century. A vaccine to the Strain 9 virus is being produced and distributed as quickly as possible throughout primarily the city, though Tallant is working on expanding it to other areas.
- Batman: Brotherhood of the Bat
At the turn of the millenium, Ra's Al Ghul released the Ebola Honduras Strain-9 virus as a way to take over the world. He wished to reduce the world's population to a mere 23 million people, which he deemed to be optimal for a balance between man and nature. Or, in other words, kill off 89% of the world's population. 53 years later, the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. Governments have toppled, Gotham City is in flames and anarchy rules the day. For 27 years, Batman fought to protect the rapidly destabilizing Gotham, but was decapitated by Ra's Al Ghul shortly after the birth of his son Tallant, his cowled head left on a pike on the Wayne Manor gate. All of his allies, except for Oracle, died somewhere between the start of the outbreak and the start of Brotherhood of the Bat, most likely due to the Strain 9 virus. Heroes in other areas either retired (like Oracle) or died as well.
The major gangs in the now lawless city are the Raggy Boyz, and the Mohawks, who treat the ruined streets like their own personal playground. There is one other--the City Commandos, a group which claims to be the city's peacekeeping force, inhabiting what used to be the police headquarters, but in fact are just as corrupt as all the other gangs in the city. What few citizens are left (and can afford it) live in gated buildings with armed guards.
Power is still functional in parts of the city, and there is one functional television station (now called a vid-feeds), which is owned and oeprated by the City Commandos. There are emergency Food Centers to distribute food. Depending on how much the average citizen had before the outbreak or had managed to scavange before the city went up in flames, they may also have a variety of entertainment items (ex. books, exercise equipment, board games), as well as weapons and ammunition.
Following the quick rise and fall of the Brotherhood of the Bat in Gotham City, Tallant, as Batman, has taken over control of the city just long enough to establish a new order before bringing elections back to the city for the first time in half a century. A vaccine to the Strain 9 virus is being produced and distributed as quickly as possible throughout primarily the city, though Tallant is working on expanding it to other areas.
