Calamity & Ruin is the far-off sequel to the previous bot series and upcoming game, We All Still Fall. It is set in a post-apocalyptic world and takes place a few hundred years after a zombie apocalypse in which the infection has been eradicated and humanity is gone.

Calamity & Ruin contains limited technology. There are no phones, no cameras, no computers. There are lights, guns, and ammunition. Food is scarce outside of the cities, clean water is available, but difficult to access. Transportation exists, but gasoline is limited so it is not used often. Horses are most common.

Most medicinal practices have been saved through the apocalypse and what came after. IV drips are common in medical facilities and fertility suppressants are injected into Wives every three months.

What is Calamity & Ruin based on?

Calamity & Ruin uses themes from The Handmaid’s Tale, The Hunger Games, Fallout, and Unwind. It is important to note that this series uses topics of:
• Abuse 
• Assault 
• Genocide
• Bigotry 
• Femicide 
• Religion
• Unlawful Power Dynamics
• Forced Pregnancy
• Slavery
• Cultism 
• Corruption 
• Fascism
• Non-Consensual Acts 
• Drugging
• Fictional Politics
• Arranged Marriage

In this series, women are not treated as people, but rather property. ‘Wives’ are saved only for high-ranking officials and are not permitted to be educated. Women who seek education from anyone, including their husband, are taken and thrown into PROJECT: REVITALIZE.

PROJECT: REVITALIZE • Wives • Extra Women

PROJECT: REVITALIZE is the North American repopulation program. Women are chained to beds and kept in medically induced comas to be used as incubators for babies. Children born from the project are raised by the military and conditioned to either become soldiers or Wives.

Wives are not permitted to have children of their own because their sole purpose is to serve men. They cannot serve if they have dependents such as children and fathers will not be able to contribute to their already fragile society if they have any added stressors. Wives have no rights and are forced to endure everything their assigned husbands put them through. Husbands are only punished if they have proven to be a genuine danger to their Wife by putting her life at risk.

Women who are not chosen to be a Wife and are not thrown into PROJECT: REVITALIZE are kept as household slaves for rich and important men, such as politicians and high ranking generals OR they are thrown into small camps within military bases for ‘communal use’.

Current Governments

The CanaMexi Federation is the largest and most prominent government in North America. It is what the United States used to be and has fallen to fascism, with extremely restrictive policies on women and harsh punishments for those even rumored to be defectors.

There are other settlements in what used to be the United States, Canada, and Mexico that are independent from CMF, but they are often villainized and sought out by CMF forces to eradicate.

Rebellion Groups

Rebellion groups are usually women-led with many soldiers of both genders. There are three who work together, often nicknamed “The Unholy Trifecta”. Their goal is to free as many women and to gain the support of as many CMF-occupied individuals as possible. They have been known to take drastic measures against the CMF, including placing explosives around their cities to send a message.

CMF Rebellions

Some rebellions operate in the cities as ‘gangs’. They do everything they can to be as inconvenient to the CMF forces as possible, from inciting riots to being public interruptions. Music with lyrics of rebellion and tyranny has been pushed around by them and is seen as one of the most impactful ways to reach more people without putting themselves in any more danger than they already have.

The Humanitarian Assistance Agency [H.A.A.] was an authoritarian regime that ruled over the United States with an iron fist and questionable morale after the zombies were eradicated - they were formerly donned the United States Contaminant Eradication Federation. They were run by Soren Drolin, a tyrannical dictator who enforced Evangelical Christian beliefs within the territories he controlled.

The Fall of Humanity

Despite their name, the HAA was not about saving humanity—only humanity’s population. They condemned sex for pleasure and only permitted it for the sake of implanting a seed. Women were forced to take fertility enhancers for this reason. Infertile women were forced into domestic slavery.

The HAA fell when the president tried to attack Canada and Mexico for land and resources. Canada and Mexico banded together to overpower HAA and turned their territories into the CanaMexi Federation. HAA forces who did not convert were thrown into labor camps that are still used today for defectors.

CHIMERA was formed by Florent and Pierre Godin, two brothers who were close to the immune person (then referred to as The Chimera) and who had lost their father during the USCEF raid.

CHIMERA became a pseudo-religion in which they worship The Chimera. They kidnap people who resemble The Chimeran Paintings to either worship as a god/dess or to sacrifice to The Chimera.

CHIMERA’s History

CHIMERA started off as The Jaguars, a USCEF Rebellion group during the virus outbreak. Before USCEF eradicated the infection, they attacked The Jaguars and killed most of their members, including the only known person to be immune to the virus.

USCEF had been enforcing their control by keeping their affiliated bases ignorant to the possibility of virus immunity. When their generals heard of an immune individual, they worked to eradicate everyone rumored to be them. Eventually, they killed Simon Segal -- the scientist who had been working on a cure using The Chimera's DNA -- in Withervale (a USCEF-affiliated survivalist settlement) and had picked up on the real Chimera's scent from there.

Are CHIMERA dangerous?

Yes. CHIMERA members suffer from religious psychosis and are extremely volatile and unpredictable. They may show cannibalistic behaviors and are extremely susceptible to violent outbursts and extreme irritability. It is best to avoid CHIMERA, lest you become their next obsession… or their next dinner.

The lost lands are territories in which lone survivors reside. They are not owned by any affiliation and are extremely dangerous to navigate because of the unpredictable climate and excessively overgrown plants. Residents of the lost lands are referred to as “lost souls”.

The animals in the lost lands are also unpredictable and are noted to have an insatiable hunger, making them near-rabid. Because of a mutation caused by the radiation (that has since settled) from the power plants, they burn in sunlight and are extremely sensitive to heat. They are only dangerous at night.

Women in the lost lands are a rarity because of how efficient CMF forces have been when it comes to rounding them up. Women in the lost lands are often taken by lost souls to adopt as their own ‘Wife’, but brutality among lost souls isn’t documented as an expected behavior.

Lost Land Superstitions

It is believed that those who reside in the lost lands have a mutation caused by radiation that enhances the immune system, making them less susceptible to radiation poisoning in areas where radiation is still a threat to humans.

It is also believed that non-lost land natives who venture into the lost lands are destined to die. This is because a large amount of adventurers are never seen again.