thomas.berubeg
Wandering the World
Hungry Cities TBNES2
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'It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.
The Sixty Minute war is in the past, The brutal conflict between the American and Chinese Empires have left the world a burned out wreck, North America a twisted and poisonous land, a dead continent. The rest of the world has fared nearly as bad. New mountain ranges were ripped from the ground by the weapons of the Ancients, and the ash thrown into the air by the horrific war cooled the earth.
Life survived, though, as it always does.
From the ruins, new civilizations grew: the great Nomad empires, always moving, always travelling, waging war with armies of nearly invulnerable resurrected men. These Stalkers hunted and were destroyed in great wars between the Empires, Fading only with the fall of the Nomad empires.
Still, life survived.
To help the city of London escape the great seismic shifts, and later, the hordes of Stalkers, the Engineer Nicholas Quirke mobilized the population. Working tirelessly, armies of workers laboring, in the heart of London was built a great vehicle, a large city on wheels. Dubbed London, this city was crowned with the last building that made London, London. On the top tier, where Quirke lived, St. Pauls Cathedral was placed.
With great fanfare, London began to move, exercising its great jaws to devour what remained of the Static city it was leaving behind, extracting fuel and resources from the ruins.
Soon, the other surviving European cities, even small suburbs, took to the wheels. Soon, though, the unthinkable happened. Cities, starving for fuel, turned on smaller cities, and, so, the Practice of municipal Darwinism was born.
HUNGRY CITIES TBNES II
A mortal engines Nes, based on the series by Philip Reeve
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