Desperate times call for desperate measures. When facing overwhelming material and technological superiority suicide weaponry becomes increasingly viable

Presented in the Person/Machine/Moment format

The Wastelands of the Cosmic Era

Another piece of retrotech favored by wastelander nomads, terrorists, and explorers.

Not every nation and faction can afford supersoldiers, power armor, or mecha. They have to innovate.

Mag Rails rose in prominence across Eurasia after the Resource Wars ended, and remain popular vehicles on the Silk Road and in wasteland areas.

In the Cosmic Era, there is one thing that has grown with the advent of arcanotech and hypertech, the gap between the wealthy and destitute. While nations are building space stations and starting terraforming projects on other planets, there are large sections of planet Earth that are still post apoc era.

26/30 Sample Dead Zones to flesh out the wastelands of the Cosmic Era.

The wastelands of the Cosmic era are a harsh environment, littered with wreckage, contaminated with chemical weapon residue, and radiation, and inhabited by mutants, monsters, and the strange creatures hemorrhaged from dimensional fatigue events. The denizens who are hardy enough to live in this terrain make due with their own sort of gear.

Stone peckers, foul-tempered beasts, better suited for cooking and mattresses than being allowed to breed

Anjet of Cenn Caerwaith

The Nightmare War did more than end the Old Empire, it turned a massive swath of once fertile land into the unimaginably hostile Wastelands, and populated it with beasts, horrors, and monsters.

Anjet of Cenn Caerwaith

Cooked or raw, they taste like camel urine. Unfortunately they are full of water and easy to catch. I'm tired of eating these sand-fish

Anjet of the Cenn Caerwaith

Beware the lords of the sky, in the wastelands even the would-be dragons give them a wide berth

Anjet of Cenn Caerwaith