Our custom story...
Genesis
In the beginning, God said - Let there be light, to burn away the darkness.
On the second day, the sky was born, a majestic canopy for the earth.
On the following day, God sculpted the bountiful earth, and planted it with trees.
On the fourth day, God split day from night, and blessed the earth with the cycle of the seasons.
Then God filled the seas with life, and set forth the birds to soaring the skies.
On the sixth day, God created glorious creatures.
Chief of these, were mankind whom he created in his own image.
He blessed them, giving them dominion over all living things.
To care for, to nurture. To rule.
And on the Seventh day, God rested.....
And as he rested,
Mankind died.
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Setting -
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Moscow, once one of the largest cities in the world - lies dead. Beyond its boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests, which is all that is left of earth. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilization have already become a distant memory and new material for myth and legend. More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. On the streets of Moscow, the monotone echoes of the launching rockets still haunts the minds of those who venture up. The day the world died still mocks humanity.
Rusted railways lead into emptiness in the dark anvil that of which, is the Metro. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over. A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge.
Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around different political ideas, religions or the need of water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price. Mankind has forgot to learn from history, and conflicts take new turns down in the Metro in barbaric measures fighting for living space, breeding stock or just for plain savagery. Mankind is dead. A rotting corpse of its former self.
Turgenevskaya, a small and unimportant station with an isolated people sharing democratic values, have come within the cross-fire of interwar politics. Communists, Socialists, McCarthyists and Fascists each agitate for their own belief while the democratic leadership desperately tries to combat the growing hostility from a radicalized and war-weary Metro.
Hansa-Red Line War
Introduction
The Hansa-Red Line War was the first and the largest conflict in the Metro. Ignited around 12 years after the Great War, the conflict involved separatists from the Sokol Line led by the Revolutionary Soviet of the Sokol Line and the Anti-Communist coalition, led by the capitalistic Hanseatic League. The outcome of the war had dramatic results for the Metro population, the original number of 200,000 that lived in the Metro dropped down to merely 162,000. Beside the enormous casualties, the war changed the Metro forever, radicalizing it as well as creating new possibilities of another conflict.
The Sokol Line Revolution
When Central Administration collapsed a few years after the Great War. The Sokol Line, otherwise known as the "Centre of the Metro" fell into anarchy. Political conflicts and coups were daily life in these stations until 2021, following the creation of the Commonwealth of the Ring Lines. The Stations of the Sokol Line became puppets and satellite states to Hansa. Former stations who had merged into a Commonwealth, stood now mighty and strong, surrounding the Sokol Line. Dictators and other Strongmen were held in power with Hansa support in order to reassure Hanseatic sphere of influence, and many innocent suffered greatly by famine and oppression.
Barely two years later, the Sokol Line was once more in flames. The death of a respectable old worker in Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchhad Station ignited large and violent protests on massive scale. The station?s inhabitants quickly armed themselves, and attacked members of the administration, lynching or expelling them while raising red banners and shouting out revolutionary slogans. The news of the revolt in Preobrazhenskaya spread like a wildfire across the Sokol Line, and soon revolutions, inspired by the event in Preobrazhenskaya, occurred all over the Line, and the red banners were swaying left and right, and barricades were built and militias formed. This was the Sokol Revolution...
In the matter of days, communists and leftist-oriented intellectuals, farmers and dwellers came together and formed a 'Soviet? (council) in Preobrazhenskaya, the heart of the Revolution. The newly formed council, which would be known as the Revolutionary Council, united the states that had throw off the shackles of oppression and together, these membering stations crowded the whole Sokol Line. The newly established Union, the Sokol Line was officially renamed "The Red Line? as a symbolic for their political colour.
Since I cannot fit the full canon in this thread, here is a link to the full thing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eGKfs2oeGj8w7VHJEvRxXauI-lh3fOotL_jxYrZm-u0/edit
