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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9704329" data-attributes="member: 1125">I'm imagining multiple global flashpoints triggered by environmental disasters (earthquakes, global warming, tsunami and flooding), the entire global map is reshaped. The mecha are first deployed to assist the humanitarian crisis as global populations are displaced. But its not long before politics and capitalism leads to conflict over rights to salvage the collapsed megacities, ownership of infrastructure, and rights to newly strategic coastlines.PC Mecha pilots may have Humanitarian, Military, Corporate, Resistance, Environmental, Academic or Recreational motivations - some to help restore the cities, others for profit or territory and some for more bizarre reasons.So Flood Megacities -TOKYO - After a catastrophic quake rock not only the city but the nation Nippon nationalists, corporate contractors, and UN peacekeepers vie for control of high-tech salvage.SHANGHAI - After the wall defences fail and the central authority is weakened, a war between pirates, corporate warlords and the old authority begins for tech and port access in a flooded vertical city.JAKARTA - The old city is partially submerged, while the jungle has started to reclaim the remaining dry zones. Refugees, Corps and the old regime battle for controlROTTERDAM (Europes biggest port) - partially flooded but some districts survive on elevated platforms. Pirates, Corporates and Nations battle for salvage.LONDON - Despite the Thames Barrier, sea-level rise and storm surges overwhelm London's defences forcing the city to retreat to the Old London financial centre. The Royals and Corps now battle Ecofocussed ReclaimersNEW YORK - Sea levels and storm surges breach all defences and Manhattan south of Central Park is underwater. Corporate towers are vertical islands while the subways are lakes. Rampant stages heroic Liberty Missions with Mecha battling between skyscraper or in flooded subwaysBOSTON - Survives behind floodgates and the MIT-Havard zone has become a much-coveted research hub.NEW ORLEANS - another Katrina-scale disaster, the central city is corporate controlled, outer parishes the poor survive in a brutal swamp-ridden ruinsHOUSTON - Energy Barons and Christian Nationalist now control the Refineries.CALIFORNIA ISLAND - The Big One hit, splitting California into islands, flooding from the Pacific combined submerged LA, but inland areas survived. San Francisco is a series of islands, Hollywood is a warzone.CAIRO - Flooding of the Nile brings both calamity and opportunity, especially when combined with Desertification. Rampant sees the chance to leverage the glory of Ancient Egypt and own the Middle East/North Africa narrative through Desert Warfare and water wars on the Aswan Dam..LAGOS - Africas largest city is comprised of High-tech vertical arcologies built on sunken ground. But population crisis has put a strain on infrastructure leading to cyber-tribal resistance, new warlords and corporate battles for control of spires.NAIROBI - a tech hub, and seat of the African Union. It maintains official neutrality but is heavy on surveillance. Its a fortified smart city surrounded by displaced populations</blockquote>

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