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Old 02-12-2019, 09:59 AM   #6
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Default Re: Build a Cyberpunk Setting

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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl View Post
Global cooling is not really a cyberpunk theme unless it is the result of nuclear winter or geoengineering gone horribly wrong. A limited nuclear exchange, perhaps between Russia and the USA, or a UN sponsored geoengineering project that bankrupted most of the world would be quite thematic. Perhaps a giant sunshield 'acquired' by China after the bankruptcy of the developed nations allows the Chinese to selectively reduce sunlight to its rivals by up to 50%.
you could blow up a large volcano somewhere ... that could get you some serious global cooling. The eruption of Tambora in 1815 lead to "the year without a summer" in '16 and is thought to have reduced global temperatures in '17 and possibly '18 as well. Could give you the traditional "sky the colour of a TV tuned to a dead channel" ... and possibly some impressive sunrises and sunsets every now and again.
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