Tax collectors in post-apocalypse Amazon Empire

An Imperial Amazonian tax collection dirigible hit by a rebel RPG billows smoke. Rebels would often place thermal bombs under the landing field, and set them off with proximity fuses when tax collectors came calling. The chemical mortars aboard the dirigible proved ineffective against small and widely dispersed rebel forces. 

Warfare was conducted increasingly by remote drones, which led to an escalation in electronic warfare until supplies ran out. 

View from the moons of Jupiter

Explorer and adventurer Philipe Samsa atop the Argelus Crest, looking out over the lifeless plain that would one day be verdant farm land. 

Samsa would even live to see it.

The Telepate Temples

High Salespriest Vrendach of the telepate Church of the Material, outside The Primo, a mighty designer shoe temple in Zone Five of the NJ-undermall. Shoes were especially revered by Telepates, as the culmination of functional design, and the height of pre-collapse civilization. It was their divine mission to protect such holy relics.  

The Baga Shoe Temple in Zone Seven of the NJ-underworld was the most splendid of the Telepate sanctuaries, but it’s shoe collection made it the constant target of attack by collectors and foot fetishists. 

Shankar VI: leader of the Telepate

A monumental bust of Hierophant Shankar VI, leader of the Telepate, a faction of intellectually enhanced mutants living in the vast underground city-malls of New Jersey. The tunnels were extensive even before the bioengineered Borerwyrms. The Telepates learned to mentally control these great wyrms, and expanded their domain ten fold. They built dozens of mall-temples dedicated to high end consumer goods, protected by deadly traps and fast food replibooths. 

Survivors of the tunnel delve

Materialist leader Tensohl takes a break in a surface level station while Bespoke Monks and his lieutenant, Seldar, watch on. Tunnel mall dives could last for weeks, given their extent, and often resulted in heavy casualties. But they were holy expeditions for materialists, who likened them to crusades. 

Floating Block 71

Antigravity plating was successfully bolted on to Block 71, elevating it above the surface, which was overrun with weaponized animal-horrors. Balloons and AG-pods were used to travel between domiciles and forage for food. A portable fusion reactor kept the lights on, and Block 71 flourished as a refuge of civilization for decades. 

Some notable figures of the Post-Post-Apocalypse, such as Angor Lasereyes, hail from Block 71. After the aspiring mad sorcerer Klaven the All-Knowing grafted cybernetic eyes onto Angor, along with a small diamond battery at the base of his skull, Angor earned his nickname, and spent many years terrorizing small settlements at the head of his gang of marauders, known as The Dead Eyes. 

Innnovative nomenclature was not a strong point in the far future wastelands of Midest Uhmerika. 

The Delff Bastion

The Delff Bastion was as xenophobic as it was peaceful. It’s ruler, Wizard-Seer Kruhlhaus, kept the people in a retro state of ignorance, forever caught in the amber of an imagined golden age that merged medieval with the early twentieth century. The high tech infrastructure was hidden from them, except for the Guardian Robots.