October 22nd, 2027. The day the first human on the surface perished. The day mother nature took back her planet. The day humanity's long reign over Planet Earth finally ended.
Most people had no idea what was happening. Scientists, the media, and generally anyone outside the chosen few had no idea. They had no idea why their body parts were changing. They had no idea why people on the streets were dropping like flies. Most assumed it was a disease. The superstitious ones assumed it was a curse, and the religious ones assumed it was a punishment from God.
The Second Flood, they called it. The second time God decided to hit the reset button on humanity after Noah's ark. Except it wasn't a disease. It wasn't a curse. A punishment, maybe. It was radiation. Two kinds, one called Keifer's radiation, named after Keifer Schmidt, a world renowned scientist that came from Germany, and the other, dubbed chaotic radiation.
Keifer's radiation wasn't dangerous. It didn't come into contact with humans at all. However, it was attracted to certain animals, including but not limited to ponies, lizards, cows, predatory birds, and lions. At the time, no matter how close we looked, we could not find any side effects caused by Keifer's radiation toward the animals which somehow absorbed it. So at the time, we assumed that there were no side effects, or that the side effects were so minimal that they were nearly invisible.
Chaotic radiation, on the other hand, triggered several rapid genetic mutations in humans, which had a one hundred percent fatality rate if one was exposed to it in large quantities. These mutations would alter human biology at the cellular level, changing internal organs, sometimes removing them completely, or rendering them useless. And in the worst case scenario, altering the outward physical appearance in someone either partially or completely. The strain of the radiation on our bodies, coupled with the oftentimes fatal mutations, and the speed at which they occurred, always led to death. And the worst thing was, these two different types of previously undiscovered radiation… were being emitted by an incoming asteroid, over twice as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
However, the asteroid itself was not a concern, seeing as it would only collide with Earth over a thousand years later. It was discovered that the asteroid's output of Chaotic radiation would double every twelve to sixteen months. From there, scientists were able to deduce that the world would become uninhabitable by the year 2027. As a result of this, world governments got together and constructed Utopia, a large underground luxury/military doomsday bunker, capable of holding up to four hundred thousand people, two thousand and fifty people from each nation, and all the tools and resources necessary to restart human civilization.
Through trillions of dollars of incurred costs, millions of workers, and having the best and brightest minds work constantly round the clock, Utopia was constructed in only about eight years. Built seven kilometres underground, Utopia was able to keep humanity safe from the harmful effects of Chaotic radiation while allowing them a chance of surviving the asteroid's impact. Utopia was an underground metropolis, with an area of about ten square kilometers (roughly the size of two thousand two hundred football fields) on the largest floor, and with an additional three levels consisting of at least five square kilometres each, which brought the total floor space of Utopia up to thirty square kilometres.
Utopia was separated into eight different districts, each representing one particular nation. As a result of being the most widely understood language, all countries and their citizens adopted English as their first language for ease of communication among the now much smaller population. There used to be a hundred and ninety five nations, but most combined with other nations as a result of the smaller space, and to build up power in the new world. Another reason for this was so that they could surpass the two thousand citizens per nation cap, because in the new world, more citizens meant more power.
Utopia, as it was named, was exactly that. Powered by twenty nuclear reactors underneath the bunker that was designed to absorb and convert Chaotic radiation to electricity, it housed dozens of facilities and many, many luxuries that ensured that if the ground was unsafe, humanity would be living in the best, most luxurious world possible. These facilities included a fully sustainable agricultural farm capable of supporting 450,000 people, four sports centers, two cinemas, a working internet connection, high class restaurants, a working train that travelled all around the bunker, extremely luxurious living areas, a small park that had a projected version of the Sun which actually gave out heat, a literal theme park, and many other facilities made to ensure maximum comfort for the remainder of the human race.
However, scientists were unable to predict when the surface would be able to support human life again. As a result, world governments had to think of another plan in case the ground could not be repopulated for an extended period of time. They invested heavily in technology that would allow them to live in suspended animation, and technology that would be able to cryogenically freeze humanity until Earth was habitable once again. And finally, after billions of dollars and the combined efforts of almost every single world renowned scientist, a method of cryogenically freezing humanity was discovered, on December 7th, 2024. The 'stasis chambers' as they came to be known as, were capable of suspending all bodily functions, while not harming the person frozen. This allowed the chambers to keep working as long as there was a power supply, without the need for any form of sustenance. While doing this, humanity would be gradually exposed to extremely small, nearly unnoticeable amounts of Chaotic radiation throughout the duration of humanity's suspended animation. The doctors carefully calculated the necessary amounts of radiation required to allow the human body to develop immunity to the radiation. Just the right amount to allow the human body to recognise and metabolise the radiation, but not enough to cause harmful mutations. To keep on the safe side, humanity was to be frozen for one million years, before they would wake up and commence repopulation if the ground was safe.
Due to humanity having to leave Earth unattended, scientists urged world leaders to bring along a large number of the most elite soldiers they could find along with a hefty sum of weapons, vehicles, and WMD's, to which they eagerly complied. Scientists suggested this for three reasons. The first was so that the soldiers could protect the people from wild animals, which would no doubt have taken back the planet in the one million year time span, including the possibility of certain animals having evolved in unforeseeable ways, possibly making them even more dangerous. That brings us to the second reason; which is if another species evolved to match the level of intelligence displayed by humans and colonised the planet, building a planet-spanning society, and proved to be hostile towards our species. The final reason, and probably the least likely, was if extraterrestrial life managed to claim our planet and proved to be hostile towards our species.
To allow for enough space for all humanity's military needs, level four was built. With an area of eight square kilometres, level four housed hundreds of the most sophisticated tanks, military aircraft, helicopters, and even several extremely large military transport aircraft for both transportation and deployment of soldiers and military vehicles. Due to the limited space, rather than having each nation have their own weapons and vehicles, they were made available to all nations and weren't the property of any one nation. Unlike levels one to four which were built seven kilometres underground, level four was built only one hundred meters underground to allow for the deployment of military vehicles. Level four also consisted of a runway for aircraft that was three thousand four hundred meters long while having a gradual rise of one hundred meters which led up to the surface so deployment of aircraft would not be an issue, and to shield level four from the radiation, the entrance to the level four runway was closed off by multiple five foot lead doors spaced at regular intervals along the runway.
Because of the heavily militarized nature of the new Utopian society, about sixty percent of all the citizens of Utopia were made up of the most elite soldiers in the world. Most of these elite soldiers came from the United States, seeing as how many countries decided to give up positions meant for their own soldiers to make way for elite U.S. army members, who were the most capable fighting force in the world at the time. The other forty percent consisted of both workers that were necessary for the day to day running of Utopia, the most renowned scientists the world offered, and world leaders together with their families. Apart from world leaders, nobody else was permitted to bring their families along due to the limited space available. Only essential personnel were allowed in, and there were hardly any objections to this rule since people had already recognised the importance in saving the entire human race rather than a few extra members of their family.
On the fourteenth of March, year 2026, the last of the four hundred thousand chosen humans entered Utopia, one year before The Second Flood, and the entrance was sealed. The cavern above it that had once allowed entry was collapsed by the use of explosives. The citizens of Utopia were given one month to settle in and get used to their new way of life underground, and on the twenty eighth of April, the last of the citizens of Utopia were put to sleep for what was to be the next one million years.
Among these citizens was Atticus Constantine, the president of what used to be the United States of America, but was renamed to the United States of Utopia after about half of the world's countries joined together with the US to form what was now, without a doubt, the strongest nation of the new world. Along with him was his wife Laura Constantine, his firstborn son Joseph Constantine, and his two other children who were twins; his second born son Gerald Constantine, and finally his only daughter and twin of Gerald, Eris Constantine.
Sad for all the common people. Maybe they could have asked the lizard people to allow humans into their home at the center of the Earth.
No way they'd give up literally all of the space they were allotted on a hedging bet so they could "defend themselves from predators." Seems awfully convenient.
I really love this idea...hope you keep don't give it up.
I am actually very impressed with this idea, and I can't wait to see where the story goes.
For an undisclosed reason only jazz music from the 1950's would be allowed inside Utopia, right?
Ah yes what a perfect name. Atticus Constantine. Perfect.
lol
No. Nobody is ever this utilitarian
I can already tell this will be a power fantasy, I'm not complaining, I'm just stating what it is... I await more
If people in real life were as understanding and utilitarian as these people we wouldn't have nations or wars
... Am I missing something, or is this really just some random Sci-Fi story you accidentally put up on Fimfiction.net?
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Yeah, ur missing something. And I'll even tell ya what it is. You're missing... THE NEXT FRIKKEN CHAPTER!!!!!
But seriously though, this one is like a summary of how humanity ended up in Utopia. And also how much of a utopia Utopia is.
Im confused. Are they asleep for 1mil years? Why is the facility so luxurious than? They even have an amusement park? That will never be used? That shit well Decay over a million years and never be usable when they wake up then?
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I mean it's fictional and not supposed to be realistic...
But I guess if you want, I'll give you a possible reason for everything being so luxurious.
1. In chp 1, it said that the bunker went through an automatic monthly cleansing, so cleanliness isn't an issue.
2. It's in an enclosed space. The reason the stuff decay is because nothing can make it decay. The main reason for stuff decaying is weathering (and probably some other stuff which I'm too lazy to research on). The facilities and stuff are enclosed, so they're safe from weathering, rusting, decomposing, and whatever else that degrades stuff.
Hope that explanation suffices. And yea, this explanation is Canon but I'm not gonna mention it in the fanfic. I already thought of this diffusion before I made the fic and figured out that was a realistic enough reason.
The only thing I want to nickpick is the name of the new "nation". USU. I would have gone for United Earth Government
Woah STOP RIGHT THEIR!
Do you have any idea on what you just said right their?
60% of the Utopian Human Race is made up Military personal, and you are saying that "Most" are American Soldiers, that implies that 70% out of all the military personal in Utopia are American.
Which means out of the 400,000 People underground, 168,000 of them are actually Americans and heavily armed ones as well!
And that's not even counting the American Civilians and along with the President and his family!
Do you honestly believe that Communist China, Authoritative Russia and literally every other Nation that hates America or opposes their "World Police" Status, are to accept a proposal that ends with them being force to submit to the will of Uncle Sam?
Well Human history has thought me enough to know that the answer will be a big fat no.
Not even the United Nations could agree to such a idea, as the American Military could in theory pull off a Military Coup in Utopia and enforce American Value's on Everyone with a Military Junta in charge.
Renaming the United States of Utopia to the United States of "America".
Also the USU is a name that I find hard to be accepted as multiple nations would reject that name as sounding too "American" and instead propose a "United Nations of Planet Earth" (UNPE) name instead, but that's just nitpicking.
Also did you forgot that everyone else has Special Forces?
Sure Humanity will be more prepared against Aliens or "something" but I find it hard to believe that everyone can go along with the fact that "Americans" can easily populate the world while everyone else is at risk of being the last people of their culture/history and becoming extinct, like the Latin language.
EDIT: NoobMaster69 has cleared up the confusion going on in Chapter 1 by explaining the real number of American Soldiers in Utopia and spoiler alert its not 168,000 American Soldiers.
Go to Chapter 3 for the explaination.
I'm sorry but even in fiction I find this very difficult to be the case. Absolutely no one would straight up bow down to the importance of the human race because they don't have the rest of the world on their minds, what they have is their friends and family on their minds when on the brink of an apocalypse.
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Agreed.
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Regarding point 2, cant forget oxidisation
So before that no one has ever died?
Wow, that’s a shocker.
Wasn’t it already 2027?
Don’t you mean one to three?
So no kids, teachers or anything?
I thought they weren’t allowed to bring family.
Sorry if it seems like I’m nitpicking, but I need to get as much information as I can before I move on to the next chapter.
Yeah, i know you want to start story strong but this is _really_ pushing the suspension of disbelief!
Jesus, how powerful is this radiation? Doubling every year and a half over the course of a millennium? And it's already potent enough to drop people like flies? I'm not going to sit here and do the math so I could be wrong, but I don't think we could build a bunker deep and well shielded enough to protect anyone in the final days before impact. I mean those are strip the atmosphere and boil the ocean levels of radiation.
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it's only harmful to people.
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God, I laughed out loud at that.
I like the premise but how is the technology supposed to last 1,000,000 years? Even if they aren't used in that time they wouldn't last.
10913777 Not pushing it so much as ramming it face down in a bucket of water and holding it there until it stops struggling, then dumping it in the nearest storm drain. It feels like the original design was something the author just threw out, and then suddenly realised, if I'm going to fan wank humans over ponies, I need to add a whole lot of extra guns, so lets just chuck out entire countries worth of people and have them be okay with it.
None of this makes any sense, if you have the cryo tech, surely you'd invest in building additional cryo facilities, possibly in natural cave systems, as the more people you save the more diverse the genetic base for repopulating the Earth is, not to mention you no longer have all your eggs in one basket. That's a far better use of resources than some ridiculous military overkill.
Because that's what you really need when the entire world is going to die, and the people in the bunker are going into cryosleep for a million years. I actually laughed out loud. The description of this place sounds like a pre-teen laundry list for a super kewl base.
10907694 No. Just no. Over 1 million years you are just not going to preserve things. Not with anywhere near present day tech.
What the fuck is chaotic radiation? Oh, they are just getting cancer and dying? Okay thanks
it's so ridiculous it's funny. should have added comedy tag.
it's like that anime called GATE. ponies are basically braindead and violence. huumans are tolerance but always forced to use their bloodthirsty armies because they can't reach compromise.
se sobre toda esa cosa de orgullo Estadounidense y toda la cosa... pero siendo realistas, pero no lo suficiente como para que la idea no se venda, Estados Unidos no abarcaría más del 50% de Utopía... diablos m pienso que no ocuparía más del 30%
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That why I like doctor stone. To however gets this...... hi
I should note that Israel has the most combat-ready army
I love how well this was made, I exited to finally read this!
I'm gonna say something that probably a lot have already hit on before I continue to read this, if the world was ending and this bunker plan was the last chance, no way in hell would 60% of the bunkers population be military personnel, accurate numbers would put it more at 15% to 20% with the other 80% to 85% being civilian sector of which maybe 2% would realistically be your politicians/leadership and atleast 5% people of scientific background the rest being people of varied professions ranging from agricultural backgrounds to manufacturing and even some survivalist, teachers to though you could probably clump them in with the 5% scientific group. Also while we're on the topic of having 60% military personnel majority of which are apparently special forces, the military actively teaches self sacrifice, so you best believe atleast 40% of those 'special forces' would be giving their spots up for family members they care about such as wives or children, unless your telling me that every single one of them is a single, lonewolf, only child, with familial issues, which is statistically improbable even for fiction.
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True.
And hopefully not just special forces but at least regular soldiers too and one or a couple from each branch.
Because if marines were on there side then oh boy the animals are going to wish it was a dream