Post EMP dystopia, viability as a RPG setting?

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer

You could also use a variation of the 'Inbihitors or ME Reaper style logic: If a human settlement gets above a certain pre-defined level of sophistication or size, it gets bombed to the stone age. This is harder to work in, but if you had some sort of outside/external threat imposing it (alien invaders or some extra-planetary human colony/empire, some out of control AI-controlled, self-sustaining orbital network, etc.) you could pull it off.

You copied some of what I was going to post. My suggestion: killer robot satellites.

So building a Space Force kicks off a new Cold War, with massive weapons build up in orbit, with the main 3 or 4 superpowers putting everything but nukes on orbital platforms- rods, x-lasers, hypervelocity missiles. Then Anonymous comes along and pwns the whole shebang, and starts a wave of demilitarisation, taking out military bases and industry worldwide. Successive waves of bombardment could further target cities, civilian industry and infrastructure, down to whatever granularity is needed.

Now the killer satellites are still up there, ready to zap anything which matches their target recognition algorithms.