The Year is 20XX

[Florien]

In the year 20XX, Elon Musk decided to bring back the Fleet Submarine as part of a one-upmanship contest with some other rich guy. This is despite the idea of a fleet submarine being tried and failed in the 1910s. The design was a shoddy knockoff of the original fleet submarines, which were already widely known for being possibly the worst ships ever to float (or rather, not float.) The crews were miserable, underpaid, and ununionized. The submarines were then coopted for use in the great corporate war of 20XX (but later). Because of the bad visibility and terrible turn speed of these fancy death-traps, two of them patrolling in opposite directions in the ocean came across a US Nuclear Submarine. Because they didn't see it and were unable to turn in time, they both collided with it, turning the situation into a nuclear submarine sandwich. In a terrible accident, the submarine fired all its missiles at random targets. Most went into the ocean, but nuclear war ensued anyway. Sixty percent of the world's population was killed in the initial wave of destruction. The global famine and transportation shutdowns killed another chunk. (Also cancer rates rose slightly twenty years later, but that wasn't really a noticeable problem.)

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