The dwindling population of the former United States has isolated themselves in the Knot Cities and a handful of smaller settlements, ostensibly unified under the banner of the United Cities of America, but this central government seems to have been largely powerless until the chiral network was activated, restoring the capacity for instantaneous long-range communication between settlements across America which had been lost due to the destruction of pre-Stranding telecommunications infrastructure. As such it is impossible to discern if any life, let alone civilization, still exists outside of the North American continent. Portering services to connect and supply those both within cities and in isolated shelter have grown to fill the needs of a mostly static and isolated population, but civilization as a concept seems to be on the decline regardless.Īerospace travel and satellite communication have been rendered impossible by the chiral clouds. Due to the dangers of intended corpses, and the potential manifestation of a BT, people tend to live very isolated lives to minimize the risk that human contact brings. Chiralium has many negative effects on humans, with exposure leading to suicidal impulses, a factor which likely contributed to the huge reduction in human populations along with the more overtly catastrophic effects of its proliferation. The initial explosions, subsequent voidouts and the destructive effects of Timefall have led to most settlements being abandoned or destroyed, due to either the risk of Timefall or the simple death of most of the inhabitants. Timefall devastated ecosystems and caused the geography of the world to rapidly become unrecognisable - ground has been weathered, plant life has proliferated enormously, animal populations have been killed en masse and artificial structures built by humans have decayed.Ĭivilization has been set back considerably as a result of the Death Stranding. The increasing density of chiral matter in the atmosphere leads to perpetually overcast weather as well as Timefall - Chiralium-infiltrated rain that causes whatever it strikes to rapidly age.
The presence of large quantities of chiralium has brought about massive changes to the environment. Vast swathes of the world were devastated as chain reactions of explosions from the blossoming BT population spread. In light of this, it's likely the explosions were caused by the very first BT manifestations and their subsequent voidouts. These were initially attributed to either nuclear terrorism or meteor impacts, but subsequent analysis suggested that the explosions had many characteristics more reminiscent of matter-antimatter annihilation events. The initial manifestation of the Death Stranding to the public was the simultaneous massive explosions that occurred around the world. The Death Stranding also introduced large quantities of chiralium into the living world - a form of matter which had previously only existed on the other side, which exhibits strange time-altering properties in its interactions with normal matter and living things especially. If they are allowed to consume a living person, a voidout occurs as the victim's body and the BT's core are explosively annihilated, which has the capacity to level an entire city. BTs contain a core of antimatter, which reacts violently with the matter of a living person.
BTs are beings from the other side who have become 'stranded' in the living world. Unless the body is completely incinerated, the reunion of soul and body becomes a Beached Thing (BT). Immediately following the Death Stranding, the soul (termed the 'Ka') of any human who died remains tethered to the body (termed the Ha.) This connection results in the soul attempting to reunite with the body, causing the body to necrotize as it is infiltrated by matter from the other side. The Death Stranding began when the Beach, the world between the afterlife and the physical world of the living, became entangled with the living world. 1.1 Physical and ecological impact on earth.
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