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'''Memoir of An American Rover''' is set over 500 years after an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20catastrophic%20risk apocalyptic event] which destroyed '''a large majority''' of Earth's technology. This page is dedicated to the world of the short story (which is yet to be completed).

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The cause for this apocalyptic event is unknown to the inhabitants of the world.

== The Event ==

The cause for this apocalyptic event is unknown to the inhabitants of the world. The most widely accepted belief is that of a incredibly large [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20flare solar flare] or a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray%20burst gamma ray burst], which could of produced an electromagnetic pulse large enough to put a majority of earth's electronics out of use.

== Timeline ==

=== 2025 ===

* Extinction event, majority of electronics fried

* Mass panic ensues following the electromagnetic pulse, cities lose population quickly

* Hoarding of supplies and necessities

* Famine ensues within less self-sufficient civilizations

* Governments fail to widely control populations

* Evidence of birth-defects and sterilization

* Corrosive and cancerous chemicals pollute the area of large population centers due to neglect

* Age of computers and electronics are over, working computers are an ''extreme'' rarity

* Major metropolitan left abandoned and populations are spread across rural areas.

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 '''Memoir of An American Rover''' is set over 500 years after an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20catastrophic%20risk apocalyptic event] which destroyed '''a large majority''' of Earth's technology. This page is dedicated to the world of the short story (which is yet to be completed).
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-The cause for this apocalyptic event is unknown to the inhabitants of the world.
+== The Event ==
+The cause for this apocalyptic event is unknown to the inhabitants of the world. The most widely accepted belief is that of a incredibly large [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20flare solar flare] or a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray%20burst gamma ray burst], which could of produced an electromagnetic pulse large enough to put a majority of earth's electronics out of use.
+== Timeline ==
+=== 2025 ===
+* Extinction event, majority of electronics fried
+* Mass panic ensues following the electromagnetic pulse, cities lose population quickly
+* Hoarding of supplies and necessities
+* Famine ensues within less self-sufficient civilizations
+* Governments fail to widely control populations
+* Evidence of birth-defects and sterilization
+* Corrosive and cancerous chemicals pollute the area of large population centers due to neglect
+* Age of computers and electronics are over, working computers are an ''extreme'' rarity
+* Major metropolitan left abandoned and populations are spread across rural areas.