Chernobyl Effect

Lore
Chernobyl Effect is a custom DnD campaign setting that is set in an Alternate Earth timeline. The events of the Chernobyl Disaster caused the Earth's air to become heavily polluted with radiation. This radiation spread across the globe, interfering with many cellular and radio frequencies, causing critical shutdowns in many other reactors around the world. This eventually lead to Earth being put under a global quarantine.

Scientists and researchers managed to quickly create a form of "space station" they called Hospitality Shuttle X-213G that hovered over the Earth, or as common folk called it, The Reformer. However, they could not take the entire Earth's population on board Hospitality Shuttle X-213G. So, they ran a random selector of all of the Earth's population and took in six hundred thousand people. They disqualified anyone who had a criminal background, was over the age of 40, and had history of disease or deformity. This was to ensure that the human race would be able to repopulate, rebuild, and hopefully one day, reform the Earth when it finally cleared of nuclear waste and debris.

Due to the longevity of time, new customs, religions, systems, government, and many other things changed. The only remaining remnant of the Old Inhabitants were the languages they had spoken so many years ago.

It is now more than four centuries after the Nuclear Encompassing, and life continues to thrive on Hospitality Shuttle X-213G. It has grown in size and technology since it's origin, and now houses over four million people among itself.

The date is Julius 21, Year 2496. A very advanced military had developed called the Planetary Reformation Ordinance of X-213G Inhabitants, more commonly known as P.R.O.X.I. This military was the acting police force on board Hospitality Shuttle X-213G. P.R.O.X.I. also housed the scientists on board Hospitality Shuttle X-213G who were the workers trying to fix Earth's atmosphere so it can once again be habitable.

The military units who go to Earth in order to collect samples, observations, and many other useful pieces of information, are sworn to secrecy, as nobody outside of P.R.O.X.I. is aware of the existence of plants and animals. This is because the entire ship is capable of regulating atmospheric levels that are suitable for human life, which is done by using a complex system of matter converters and material fabricators.

On Earth, life of species, both animals and plants, have survived and adapted. They have become creatures that most people would not even be able to dream of. Lots of these species have become violent towards one another and eat other species to survive. This includes any outside threat that may enter their territory.

It is special units within P.R.O.X.I. that are tasked with going to Earth. These units are known within the Ordinance as Conservators.