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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5484794" data-attributes="member: 58197">Gremlins.We're not talking about the little green guys from the 1984 movie, although there are some resemblances. Gremlins are evil spirits that possess machines and draw power from suffering and death. They began to manifest in the 1930s, but at the time they seldom lasted long and accomplished only minor mischief. But the growth and increasing complexity of the Internet created a gremlin paradise, and they began to spread rapidly through the world's computers.As long as bandwidth and processing power continued to increase, humans were able to keep pace with the gremlins. But at some point, perhaps due to economic crisis, perhaps due to simple technological limitations, that growth slowed down. The gremlin population continued to grow, and the Internet became more and more unreliable. Major ISPs failed, one after another, in an accelerating catastrophe that finally brought down the whole network.Now we live in a world where a billion angry gremlins have been cast out of paradise. Not content to sit docilely in laptops and desktops until the Internet was restored, they soon reverted to their old habits--wreaking physical havoc rather than digital. Every car, every tank, every toy robot, now plays host to a gremlin.And it gets worse. The collapse of the Internet and the sudden unreliability of all other machines meant that fuel and electricity soon became scarce. The gremlins had to use their own power to keep the machines running... which meant ordinary mischief was no longer enough. The machines are now engaged in nonstop slaughter. They like humans best, but animals will do and even plants in a pinch. All over the world, the sight of any kind of machine is now cause for terror, and the surviving humans must make do with sticks and stones.</blockquote>

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