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==='''The last ten years of the old world'''=== In 2038, as a result of steadily more ridiculous political wrangling over diminishing fish stocks, North Korea's military Junta launched a single tactical nuclear warhead at the Liancourt Rocks, killing the civilian population of 5, the local coast guard garrison of four, and the lighthouse keeper. This was the first time a nuclear device had been used in anger since WWII - and the world came as close to WWIII as possible, until a joint operation from the UN and China ended North Korea as an independent entity. A rather disturbing array of military 'secret' technology was in part responsible for the 'Twelve day war', including particle beam technology. It seemed a minor footnote that a smallish meteor coming out of Jupiters gravitational pull made irregular movements before beginning a long arc that would take it close to Earth's orbit. This was put down to gravitatinal lensing effects by the establishment when the usual crackpots began talking aliens. apart from a few samples that contained amino acids from the Mars trip, humanity had still found no sign of alien life. Said comet passed closest to earth in 2041, doing nothing disturbing at all. There were an unusual number of meteor showers in the months after, but 90% of them fell over the worlds oceans and we unobserved. In the early 2040's, the ongoing algal blooming in the worlds denuded oceans took on a twist. Amongst the toxins released was a Viroid rNa eventually found to have been produced in a form of phytoplankton and through there entered the zooplankton population. Said unknown viroid was transmitted via aerosol vectors along the coasts of Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam into the vertebrate population. People and animals became ill in these areas, and about 1% died. Cue world panic. Over the next three years, variants of this viroid [including a viral form] appear in coastal blooms, then freshwater ones. Toxicity grows, survivors are fewer and the world comes to a slow halt as all resources are turned to fight it. Vaccines from survivors turn out to be exremely robust. Over the next four years, there is a calmer response to the blooms as massive vaccine production extends even to animals. Then everything changes as reports begin to hit the papers of permanent genetic alterations occurring in vaccinated humans. The full extent of the widespread incorporation of these viroid/viral variants into the foodchain begins to surface. The world gets very...tense [I'm thinking brushfire wars here] but politics takes a back foot to reports from the East Coast of the US and Mexico of another outbreak...only this one is a killer. The infection spreads from the coast via wind patterns. Massive cellular structural degeneration begins in 70-80% of the population within 24 hours of infection. By then, carriers are already spreading it to Europe, The pacific rim... No one is immune. Everybody gets it. 95% don't survive. The ones that do are....different.
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