Post by punkrockbowler805 on Sept 25, 2016 2:52:19 GMT
Rereading The Stand I had ideas for a setting a hundred years after Captain Tripps and Randall Flagg.
Most of America is still empty howling wilderness with deserted cities and traffic jam graveyards on cracked freeways. The crater that was the City of Sin and seat of power of the Dark Man will be radioactive for a long time to come. But humanity has rebounded somewhat and since all the survivors were immune, Captain Tripps is not a threat. It has also fractured into squabbling petty local dictatorships as Glenn Bateman foretold. Flagg had seed communities in L.A., San Francisco and Portland and Seattle. They survived the divine nuking of Vegas and became local tyrannies once the technocrats Flagg stationed there got the lights on. The radioactive area around what was Vegas and squabbles between the local rulers have stopped them from going east. They pay lip service to Flagg as a dark anti messiah and have law codes based on his radical ideology and people still get crucified on telephone poles but they half ass it and mostly just look to their own gain and interests.
To the east are many small Free Zones created when the Boulder Free Zone disbanded in a loose league run by various branches of the Redman Goldsmith clan of hereditary marshalls. The largest are New Ogunquit and settlements in New York City and Florida. But there are conflicts here. Sometimes the Free Zones fight among themselves. New York has been taken over by Luddite fanatical Mother Abigail cultists and civil war has again gutted the ruins. In New Ogunquit, Marshall Stuart XI struggles with atheist republican Lauderites who see Harold Lauder as a martyred and framed rationalist rather than traitor.
This is what the descendents of the counterparts of Randall Flagg he spoke of in Russia, China and Iran find when their black ship's appear...
Most of America is still empty howling wilderness with deserted cities and traffic jam graveyards on cracked freeways. The crater that was the City of Sin and seat of power of the Dark Man will be radioactive for a long time to come. But humanity has rebounded somewhat and since all the survivors were immune, Captain Tripps is not a threat. It has also fractured into squabbling petty local dictatorships as Glenn Bateman foretold. Flagg had seed communities in L.A., San Francisco and Portland and Seattle. They survived the divine nuking of Vegas and became local tyrannies once the technocrats Flagg stationed there got the lights on. The radioactive area around what was Vegas and squabbles between the local rulers have stopped them from going east. They pay lip service to Flagg as a dark anti messiah and have law codes based on his radical ideology and people still get crucified on telephone poles but they half ass it and mostly just look to their own gain and interests.
To the east are many small Free Zones created when the Boulder Free Zone disbanded in a loose league run by various branches of the Redman Goldsmith clan of hereditary marshalls. The largest are New Ogunquit and settlements in New York City and Florida. But there are conflicts here. Sometimes the Free Zones fight among themselves. New York has been taken over by Luddite fanatical Mother Abigail cultists and civil war has again gutted the ruins. In New Ogunquit, Marshall Stuart XI struggles with atheist republican Lauderites who see Harold Lauder as a martyred and framed rationalist rather than traitor.
This is what the descendents of the counterparts of Randall Flagg he spoke of in Russia, China and Iran find when their black ship's appear...