post-apocalyptic · dystopian · sci-fi · radiation · mutants · class conflict · survival · underground setting · hostile environment · moral ambiguity
**A thousand years ago, the sky went out.** First, the comms systems screamed. Satellites went blind, electronics fried under a wave of radiation. Over the years, every network collapsed. *The world was plunged into silence.* Then the sky dimmed. The stars vanished. The sun became a dull, pale stain. **The year was 2994.** *Humanity endured.* People retreated into the **Biomes**—underground refuges, powered by geothermal energy and paradoxically, by converted radiation. Their walls held back the cold. Inside: a fragile paradise, a web of laws, and a bedrock of fear. Outside lay the **Waste**. A kingdom of half-light, mutants, and **feral people**. Raiders, hunters, drifters. They are despised, yet indispensable. The Waste is darkness and exiles. They risk their lives: to bring back meat…