Fear Culture & Biological Warfare / The Atomic Age.

Fear Culture & Biological Warfare.

Fear Culture

By the end of 2052 most of the civilian population was living under martial law. People were reporting their neighbours as “red spies”, the “thought police” was lurking in the shadows listening in on phone calls, company emails and conversation, seeking to weed out dissidents and lock them away. The dwindling resources and energy crisis saw prices sky rocket and the standard of living began to rapidly decline in all but the most affluent societies.
Countless military checkpoints began to dot the map like a spreading rash, their presence however was not aimed at defending against enemies from Europe, rather to pacify civil unrest. With freedom replaced with fear and compliance, the population turned to narcotics and hallucinogens, both pharmaceutical and black market, in order to escape their grotesque reality. In many ways the nuclear holocaust was respite from bleak reality that was.
People were scared, people were tired but for the most part they stood together. The closer people got to the government however, the grimmer their perspective became. Anyone working with the government or on defence contracts with America were under close surveillance and the full force of Orwellian society rested on their shoulders. Working down the hierarchy scientists and engineers couldn't look away from the fact the technology they were developing would strike the killing blow on society. Even the men and women working on the factory floors couldn't un-see the Robo-Brains or the Mini-Nukes. Caretakers and Bin men losing hair, unable to keep food down, suffering from severe aches and nausea as exposure to radioactive materials began to take a toll on their bodies. People didn't lose hope though.

Biological Warfare

with the world already on the brink of destruction the wealthy and the ruling elite were grasping at any chance of survival often at the expense of the greater population. Government agencies and wealthy individuals were funding countless research teams trying to develop the means of winning the war or at least surviving it. Regulations and ethics were shrugged off while mad scientists toyed with doomsday devices and the next stage of human evolution.
Conventional warfare was no longer an option; there was simply no way to feed and fuel an army. Biological agents were being tested secretly on citizens, aimed at destroying and sterilizing hostile nations. More efficient soldiers needed to be produced. One school of thought aimed to produce a Super Soldier; however, the product was a hulking army of mentally, hidden away in underground facilities scientists experimented with gene splicing and Forced evolution. Creating abominations like death claws And Cazadores twisting animals into deadly monsters.
Work was also being done in a top-secret research facility out on the moors, Big mountain. Here The goal was to build the future of mankind and create the technology of tomorrow without restraints, either moral or technical. It welcomed some of the most gifted pre-War scientists, who plumbed the depths of many experimental technological fields. The research conducted within was as ground breaking as it was unethical, conducted in part on living humans (both volunteers and European Refugees). Big Mountain even included a concentration camp of its very own, safeguarded by lucrative contracts with the US Army, such as the X-42 giant robo-scorpion. However, due to budget cuts in the later years of its operation following the break down in relations between the UK and the US Big mountain had to improvise alternate means of funding and research. The executives began to strike deals with third parties, exchanging experimental technology for money and other privileges. Due to budget cuts, they even began assassinating non-military targets (Project Hare) to procure research subjects, and exhuming buried citizens (Project Burke).