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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velenne" data-source="post: 546084" data-attributes="member: 1856">I'm designing a d20 Modern adventure and I need some help. I'm not too caught up on worst-case-scenario protocols for our gov't and "what would the world do if *this* happened".Does anyone know (or know of a website) about goverment protocols if "the worst" should happen?The adventure might go like this: a nuke is delivered by terrorists into New York by ship and set off in port in december of 2005. Prevailing winter winds drive the fallout south, and ultimately east into the Atlantic. The President, who was in town, is killed in the blast. My take is this:The VP raises alert status to DEFCON 2. Satellite Defense System (finished by Bush in '03) is readied, along with all military forces, and 2,500 nuclear missle silos across the US are armed and readied. The VP broadcasts a statement from Air Force One to the world's nations that any attempt to arm their own nuclear missles will be percieved as intent and met with immidiate retaliation. The world teeters on the edge of nuclear winter while the US scans the horizon for any threats, it's collective finger dangling over a big red button. Nothing happens. No one takes credit for the attack which claims over a million lives. The US, with no one to shoot its weapons at, turns its attention to further defense, investigation and rebuilding. The economy plunges and is only saved by the goverment's release in 2007 of previously classified technological advances it has made in the fields of quantum mechanics, nanotechnology, and aviation. These secrets are given to surviving US buisnesses capable of making the most with them. And they do. The next era of technological evolution is brought about: The Nanotech Age. The adventure begins in 2012. What do you all think?  Are the d20 modern rules enough to work something like this?  I'm not talking about too far in the future here so I don't need cyberpunk or anything.  I'm thinking about using some of the Agents of Psi campaign to introduce a little psionics (but not magic).</blockquote>

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