North Greenland Disko Bay
One of the last strongholds of actual humanity, consisting of a series of massive bio-domes surrounded by outer wall perimeters. Constructed during the Fall by cultural precursors of the Genjian strain, the domes form a nearly self-contained world.
Thermal dynamic heating powered by natural hot springs keeps the interiors livable. Terraforming plants filter the dome atmosphere while internal systems purify the water supply. The result is a sealed environment that sustains life independent of the poisoned world outside. Population control and culling ages are rigorously pursued to match the carrying capacity of the domes; resources and space are finite, and the inhabitants manage both with ruthless pragmatism.
Beyond the dome walls stretches harsh arctic territory where the Grave Mind's spread has historically been slowed by extreme cold. Rising global temperatures and irradiated environmental changes now threaten to erode that natural barrier, potentially allowing the Grave Mind to reach these far northern territories for the first time.
A cryogenic preservation program called New Hope was instituted during the Fall to preserve human life in suspended animation. The program has already begun to fail. Warped creatures have emerged from the compromised pods, the unintended origin of the Semper Mort strain. What was meant to save humanity created something that was never intended to exist.
The domes endure. The cold holds. But the warming world presses closer with each passing year, and the cryogenic failures suggest that not all of the past's buried mistakes will stay buried.
Thermal dynamic heating powered by natural hot springs keeps the interiors livable. Terraforming plants filter the dome atmosphere while internal systems purify the water supply. The result is a sealed environment that sustains life independent of the poisoned world outside. Population control and culling ages are rigorously pursued to match the carrying capacity of the domes; resources and space are finite, and the inhabitants manage both with ruthless pragmatism.
Beyond the dome walls stretches harsh arctic territory where the Grave Mind's spread has historically been slowed by extreme cold. Rising global temperatures and irradiated environmental changes now threaten to erode that natural barrier, potentially allowing the Grave Mind to reach these far northern territories for the first time.
A cryogenic preservation program called New Hope was instituted during the Fall to preserve human life in suspended animation. The program has already begun to fail. Warped creatures have emerged from the compromised pods, the unintended origin of the Semper Mort strain. What was meant to save humanity created something that was never intended to exist.
The domes endure. The cold holds. But the warming world presses closer with each passing year, and the cryogenic failures suggest that not all of the past's buried mistakes will stay buried.
