I'm still in the process of really figuring it out, but it's definitely inspired by, well, an awful lot of things, particularly in today's society. Politics and other related things, for the most part. Now with added zombies! I may be working through a lot of societal angst with this one. ;)
That, and, IDK, apocalypses are inherently irrational, I think, and the inability to explain it away triggers all sorts of bad things in humanity. Everyone's in survival mode, and probably shock too, and it's the sort of situation where the State can step in, invoking protection rights, and do whatever they like to further their own agenda with little protest, if there's enough of a State infrastructure left to invoke such powers. My apocalypse was halted before the world ended, but what did happen was enough to trigger that, I think. That's kind of what I'm aiming for, at any rate.
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That, and, IDK, apocalypses are inherently irrational, I think, and the inability to explain it away triggers all sorts of bad things in humanity. Everyone's in survival mode, and probably shock too, and it's the sort of situation where the State can step in, invoking protection rights, and do whatever they like to further their own agenda with little protest, if there's enough of a State infrastructure left to invoke such powers. My apocalypse was halted before the world ended, but what did happen was enough to trigger that, I think. That's kind of what I'm aiming for, at any rate.