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NotFishing

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I'm thinking all the settlements will be rural or suburban, concentrated around a city, which has a few small outposts of its own but isn't too heavily inhabited.

In terms of size, we're looking at anything from a few dozen to a few hundred people per settlement. Some of them will be held up in your typical zombie apocalypse safehouses such as prisons, malls, hospitals, etc., while others will be living a life closer to what we know today in their own towns and villages. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

12-Apr-2018 02:53:05 - Last edited on 12-Apr-2018 02:54:28 by NotFishing

Westenev

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I dunno, if there is no longer any threat, why can't humanity regroup? After a decade or two all of the petrol and diesil would likely go off, but it doesn't explain why other methods of transport wouldn't work.
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12-Apr-2018 03:50:56

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Westenev said :
I dunno, if there is no longer any threat, why can't humanity regroup? After a decade or two all of the petrol and diesil would likely go off, but it doesn't explain why other methods of transport wouldn't work.

I suppose bicycles will be an option as well. There will still be cars and such, maybe even a helicopter somewhere, but those will be reserved for dire emergencies.

And they will have regrouped, they just won't have a centralized government or settlement. Think of the Minutemen from Fallout 4. They coordinate patrols, engage in mutually beneficial trade, and team up when one group starts encroaching on another's territory.

The time I've decided on is eight years later.

There will be talk of electing a leader figure, but no one can decide on how elections should go, who should be eligible, or where the 'capital' should go. You also run into other issues, such as: "Will we pay taxes? Will this leader dictate policy that affects us? Does he control our military? Do we actually need someone to do any of that, considering the current system has served us fine for years? Will he put his home settlement first? If we vote democratically, won't the position just go to the guy from the largest populated settlement? Is it even worth the paper for the ballets?"

As a result, most settlements remain independent, but are still quite happy to trade and interact with one another. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

12-Apr-2018 04:08:05

Westenev

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It sounds like your world needs a Negan. Either he will unite the settlements, or the settlements will rise up to fight him.

You have to pause to consider how brilliant this character truely is.
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12-Apr-2018 04:26:44

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Westenev said :
It sounds like your world needs a Negan. Either he will unite the settlements, or the settlements will rise up to fight him.

You have to pause to consider how brilliant this character truely is.

There's already was a Negan in this world. He was defeated.

I'll reveal it when I make the thread itself, but it involves the prison.

I don't know what's currently going on in the comics right now, but if I recall correctly, from the point I read the settlements around Washington did not have a central government even after Negan's defeat.

Rick is highly respected and whatnot, but ultimately Maggie and Ezekial have the final say in their own communities. In fact I recall one instance where Ezekial asks Rick to lower the price of bullets, and Rick then threatens to cut him off from bullets completely. Then there is another situation where Maggie lynches Gregory, knowing full well that is not a decision Rick would have made. They may be on the same side, but at the end of the day it all comes back to mutual benefit and their own judgement. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

12-Apr-2018 04:31:41 - Last edited on 12-Apr-2018 04:38:14 by NotFishing

Westenev

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NotFishing said :
Westenev said :
It sounds like your world needs a Negan. Either he will unite the settlements, or the settlements will rise up to fight him.

You have to pause to consider how brilliant this character truely is.

There's already was a Negan in this world. He was defeated.

I'll reveal it when I make the thread itself, but it involves the prison.

I don't know what's currently going on in the comics right now, but if I recall correctly, from the point I read the settlements around Washington did not have a central government even after Negan's defeat.

Rick is highly respected and whatnot, but ultimately Maggie and Ezekial have the final say in their own communities. In fact I recall one instance where Ezekial asks Rick to lower the price of bullets, and Rick then threatens to cut him off from bullets completely. Then there is another situation where Maggie lynches Gregory, knowing full well that is not a decision Rick would have made. They may be on the same side, but at the end of the day it all comes back to mutual benefit and their own judgement.

To be fair, Gregory had it comming.
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