Why haven't I seen this before? It's so true it hurts.
"I am... Sheik. One of the last of the Sheikah tribe..."
Daddy's busy being an emotionless badass.
Yeah, I prefer the "going to space" ending as well. But the other one fit your description better.
Which is why I should get around to all the Day After stories. I read the first one, but there are three more.
But it kinda sucks reading about all these characters in a post-Alternative V universe, where you know they're all gonna end up dead anyway and it's just a matter of time.
That hair. Dear god that hair.
Eh, it's an Age game. Everyone dies sooner or later. Even if it has to wait until they get into another series.
Also, how the fuck does DA even work? The uber nukes were supposed to go off and push the ships away at FTL speeds. That was the whole A5 plan. Blow up the world and ride the blast wave to the nearest inhabitable planet. Unless my memory is shit.
That's what they did, but not everyone died from the ubernukes. Most of the planet is pretty much fucked, with the rest of it reduced to a massive salt desert, but there are survivors. It's assumed that the BETA are completely wiped out so people are just trying to survive on what remains of the planet.
The main characters of the first DA are basically living on a stranded ship in the middle of nowhere, occasionally going out with their mechs to set up communication relays in hopes of finding survivors, afaik.
And then it turns out the BETA weren't *completely* wiped out after all. And then people start dying. You get the picture.
The planet wasn't fucked before? Canada was a smoking crater, America was an irradiated shithole (people were either living deep underground in bunkers or that one bit of Alaska that was managed to avoid being wiped out), Europe is nothing but a bunch of hives. The middle east was pretty much just one big hive thanks to that wonderful population density. How the fuck?![]()
Eh, government cutbacks I guess. They were probably overestimating how many ubernukes they had or something. People, these things live in space. You had to invent new forms of warfare just to slow them down. Don't take chances. Kill it with fire, then burn the fucking fire and nuke the ashes. MORONS.![]()
Also, the DA I read was pretty much just the prologue (Episode 00) with a bunch of characters that either all die or don't make another appearance later on, so I assume more of the world is explained starting Episode 01, which I haven't started yet.
Ah, that.Yeah, there are also BETA porn scenes in there. Not in the main story of course, just as separate things.
Because, y'know, fetishes.