Week Four

Based on the events from Chernobyl in Ukraine.  Historical Fiction.

During the last years of the cold war many nuclear power plants were built around the country of Sobeytl, with one in particular being the biggest located in the city of Kryntsy.  The government was fond of using the Kryntsy power plant to produce most of its nuclear weapons and energy but the inhabitants of the city didn’t find it useful, in fact, they noticed that the plant was making them experience fatigue and in many other cases, sickness. One night, there was a power surge that caused one of the vessel reactors to overheat and when an emergency shut down was performed a larger spike made most reactors of the plant to rupture the most dangerous one being one of the vessel reactors.  The outcome: a series of explosions that lead to the whole inside of the plant to expose the graphite reactor to ignite the whole plant and just like this, a massive explosion.

The Sobeyltical government only had interest in the constructions of power plants but, the quicker, the better; as a result, planning wasn’t something well thought. Most of the plants were built in the eastern part of the country some of them next to rivers and the one in Kryntsy wasn’t an exception.  The residues of the nuclear fallout spread very quickly through the stream of different rivers making the disaster to reach a 100km radius. As a result, many people died and others were asked to leave the east side of the country as soon as possible, the government tried to hide this and made a huge wall dividing the country in two, leading the people exposed to radiation to be killed without mercy before reaching safety.

Thirty years after the fallout, people managed to remain alive and built a new society detached from the past government.  The climate here was very cold, it spends 9 months of winter with occasional snowstorms and then other 3 with a really dim summer. Due radiation humans, fauna, and flora fell into five categories that measured the amounts of mutation in each one of them. From level one being the average person to level five that consisted in unidentified beings, in this case, very dangerous monsters that had no capacity of reasoning.

In some rare cases a 6^th level of mutation was found, these were humans that with radiation were able to gain characteristics that helped them survive in this new environment, depending on how their bodies reacted to radiation, they would gain super enhancements. For example: a child able to see at a very large distance almost like a scope with the ability to see at night; a man with bones as strong as steel, a woman able to stand in the cold and survive without the need of clothes, etc.

 Some cities became city –states, others formed alliances, others were never heard from again, presumably full of mutants, yet the government would throw flyers to the eastern villagers asking them to wipe out all the “bad” mutants, which were from category 3-6. They would be hired and paid and promised to get out after getting a certain quota of mutants out, the only downfall was, the government used the civilians to clean up the mess they didn’t want to or couldn’t clean themselves.