Dinh AaronMk Member

Sounds like a shoa.

Prussia owns the world.

[You asked, I pointed.](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/19063/posts/ooc)

[Praise the sun.](http://youtu.be/MNkTLKzdhxg)

Well, the NRP I've run for maybe three years as evolved from basically generic alt-history fiction to science-fiction lite.

> Gotta go out for a meal with friends in a short while, so when I'm home from that, I'll crack on. I just want to point out this is the last thing OP has said and a part of me now is creeping up to say: OP is kill.

> > Oh so it is accepted then? > > Post, fgt. > > Said the pot to the kettle. I'm working on a post, just need to catch up on what's been happening. You need to do so many things.

> The problem is exponential growth and how hard these things are to kill. Zombie bear, for example, is basically invincible and will probably make a lot of zombie people. Bears to begin with aren't exactly all over the place and maybe a considerable problem in Colorado and up in Canada. But human growth would have pushed them deep into thick wild life reservations. So chances are a zombie bear won't "sense" a human as readily as a zombie-person because they're not anywhere where there are people. Zombie tigers: sure. But there's also not many and they're only all of four places set aside for them in India. Push comes to shove high-explosive ordinance will take care of them if the Indian military needs to sacrifice an iconic species just to keep them from killing enough people to make a new hot-spot for an epidemic.

Also something that was gnawing at me since I first posted, and something I'm hoping OP has considered: not everyone buries their dead and most often the funerary rights of other cultures totally destroy the body. For instance: China now-a-days REQUIRES you cremate your dead. At least among the Han majority. Groups like the Hui get a free pass because of their Muslim beliefs, which strictly forbid the cremation of the dead. Like wise in the area, Tibetan tradition dictates that a body is to be chopped up and literally fed to the vultures in a process known as sky-burial. So China and Tibet shouldn't have any bodies when it comes to main-land Asia; apart from a few minority groups there's no bodies in China any more to raise up from the dead, they keep burning them. Same in India across the Himalayas. Although cremation isn't strictly enforced and there is a cheap alternative to cremation called, "Throwing uncle Raj in the river". But cremation in India is heavily practiced and is encouraged by the Hindu, Sikh, and Jainist faith. It's like-wise encouraged in Buddhism but not as heavily as the Hindus. So they'd be having a living-corpse deficit from within the borders to be a strict threat. The Japanese also often cremate their dead. This may sound like it's completely defeating the purpose of the RP, but if the source of this mass-rising of the dead is originating for "Christian" western countries and the Muslim world then it can be strongly argued that as a whole that'd be enough damage to devastate the world economy and draw India and China back, in addition to Japan (if Japan isn't being swarmed from any native corpses buried under Christian rights). But I'm pretty sure the Chinese or the Indians wouldn't have failed as a state given their large nations with a considerable amount of living people and they could hold off anyone coming. The "shock" might be when the recently deceased get back up and start killing things. But a morgue can be easily locked tight and the whole thing torched to the ground. Then demand everyone torch their dead a lot sooner. We can still preserve a sort of apocalypse scenario in the US though. It's just a qualm with the wider lore. Some manner of quarantine placed on the world from Asia way can keep the status quo and likely make Hindustan and China sort of legends in their own right for the possibility they may still exist.

> > > >Yes, but when the colonisation phase comes up, it's a shorter trip across the Atlantic than the Pacific :P > > > > > > I HAS TEH AIREOPLANES! Though they probably aren't in good condition, having sat there for decades. > > > > You also need highly specific fuel for them. You can't pump straight gasoline into a plane engine and throw the starter. Plane fuel is made to a very different grade of fuel than automobiles with different additives. And I'd imagine many of these additives are not available to a post-industrial decline country. > > I wonder though (and I really don't know), does this rule change when you get to early-model planes? Could they make something like [this](http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/032/0/6/Plane_World_War_1_by_Pervandr.jpg)? You probably could but it be inefficient or highly dangerous. Aviation fuel is made to burn easily and have a lower flash-point, which you reach with more intense refining. It also needs to not gel in low temperatures. And even as far back as WW1 you needed to get to a pretty specific fuel grade so your already match-box airplane doesn't burst into flames. I think the general octane grade was 70. By comparison "normal" fuel was something like 50, which was like drinking your own piss for airplanes. I'd think getting up to 50 with minimal to no industry would be a pain. You could run an engine on it. Just don't expect it to run good. I don't know about bio-diesel for plane engines either. I know they got stills you can throw in the back of your truck and basically make car-engine grade fuel from that. But I don't know if that extends to aircraft.