Before things ended, before the political and financial elites took off for new beginnings on the Moon, Mars, and some resource-rich asteroids, things got weird.
There were eye witness accounts of super intelligent animals, sentient plant life and even heretofore inanimate objects getting up and walking around.
Anti-government militias had been sabotaging ground-based ICBMs, and had even blown a couple up. Killing these guys (mostly guys) only served as recruiting video for the next generation. The threadbare government settled on an experimental chemical weapon that was supposed to mellow these guys out. Chemical lobotomies.
Rumors were that the gas somehow combined with the myriad of uncontrolled viruses to create an epigenetic shitstorm.
This definitely isn’t a YA fantasy novella, and it wasn’t radioactive spiders, so.
With the ubiquitous charging stations all over the West, the autonomous weaponized robots could roam for years. The dangers posed by the damaged earth, poisoned by chemical warfare, and viral disease kept the remnants of the government out.
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