# The Biomass: What Grew When Everything Else Died ## The Body Turned Inside Out Satellite imagery of the region between Alabama and southern Kentucky show…

# The Iowan Behemoths: Autonomous Titans of the Exclusion Zone ## First Contact The first Iowan Behemoth was spotted in 2131 by a cargo drone operator name…

The first and only functioning space elevator on Earth. Anchored to the northern tip of Isla Isabela in the former Galápagos Archipelago, the Ascension Tethe…

Denver, Colorado — a fortified mountain city that leveraged its altitude and water access to survive the collapse as a major trade hub.

Detroit, a sprawling industrial ruin and reclamation zone on the western shore of Lake Erie, with deep ties to the Great Lakes city-state network.

The state of Florida in the former United States, now a contested territory in the post-collapse American landscape.

The Free Peoples Republic, a breakaway territory spanning the former states of Idaho and Montana, governed by a loose confederation of survivalist communities.

The Huntsville area of former Alabama, now at the edge of the Biomass zone where engineered vegetation has consumed most human infrastructure.

The Indiana Dead Zone, a vast depopulated region between the Great Lakes city-states and the southern territories, rendered uninhabitable by industrial conta…

The region formerly known as Kentucky, a buffer zone between the Biomass frontier and the Ohio Corridor.

The Lake Huron Signal, an unexplained electromagnetic phenomenon detected in the waters of Lake Huron that has resisted all attempts at identification or exp…

Cathedral was last sighted south of Des Moines, its signal spires broadcasting on frequencies that disrupt BCI function within a 5-kilometer radius. Approach…

Ironclad was last observed near Council Bluffs on the Iowa-Nebraska border, stationary for the first time in recorded observation. Duration of stop: 11 days …

Seismic sensors last detected Leviathan beneath the Quad Cities area, boring east. Its tunnel network now extends from central Iowa to the Mississippi River.…

The Behemoth called Meridian walks a precise north-south line along the 88th meridian west. It was last observed 40 kilometers west of GLMZ city limits, walk…

Palisade was last observed building a road across the South Dakota border. The road is 200 kilometers long and counting. It leads nowhere anyone has identified.

Revenant was last observed in the Waterloo dead zone, collecting wreckage from a destroyed Arcturus drone swarm. Its cargo bay was 60% full.

The Foundry was last observed east of Cedar Rapids, producing smaller automata at a rate of approximately one per hour. The automata walk south. Nobody knows…

The Granary was last observed moving southeast through central Iowa, harvesting biomass from abandoned agricultural land. It has not deviated from its route …

Thunderhead was last observed generating weather patterns over the central Iowa prairie. Localized rainfall in a 20-kilometer radius. The surrounding area wa…

Lone Star Consolidated, the corporate-sovereign entity that governs the territory formerly known as Texas.

Nevada, a largely depopulated wasteland with a few fortified settlements clustered around remaining water sources.

New Mexico, a sparsely populated desert territory with scattered research installations and abandoned military infrastructure.

New Orleans, a partially submerged city that refused to die, now operating as a major port and cultural center despite perpetual flooding.

Obelisk stands in the exact geographic center of Iowa. It has never moved. It is 120 meters tall. Every other Behemoth visits it. Nobody knows why.

The Ohio Corridor, a critical overland trade route connecting the Great Lakes city-states to the eastern seaboard remnants.

Ridgepost, a settlement consumed by the Biomass advance, now referenced only in historical records and cautionary tales about the vegetation front's relentle…

Tennessee, a fractured territory caught between the Biomass expansion from the south and the Ohio Corridor trade routes to the north.

The Biomass, a massive zone of engineered vegetation that has consumed most of the former southeastern United States, advancing northward and consuming human…

The Missouri Wetlands — what remains of the state of Missouri after ecological collapse transformed its river basins into permanent marshland.

Thunder Bay, a remote northern settlement on Lake Superior's western shore, known for its isolation and the independent character of its inhabitants.

Underground Phoenix — the subterranean city built beneath the ruins of Phoenix, Arizona, after surface temperatures made above-ground habitation lethal.

…l cohesion through the collapse, now one of the more stable outside territories.

West Virginia, an isolated mountain territory largely cut off from the major trade corridors and power structures of the 23rd century.

The Wisconsin Quiet Zone, a region of northern Wisconsin where electromagnetic interference makes electronic communication unreliable, inhabited by communiti…

Canada is fine. Everyone in Canada is fine. That's the scariest sentence I've ever heard. Canada's aggressive normalcy in a world of corporate sovereignty an…

I asked the mountain what it wanted. The mountain said: closer. One of several accounts from the Appalachian Exclusion Zone suggesting the geography itself h…

…met anyone who's even been to Florida? Neither have I. The outside world is a rumor. Nobody you know has been there. Nobody they know has been there.

No one goes to Florida. No one's from Florida. No one's ever seen a deal on a flight to Florida. The three-part negation that defines Florida in the GLMZ con…

I asked the mountain what it wanted. The mountain said: closer. One of several accounts from the Appalachian Exclusion Zone suggesting the geography itself h…

Canada is fine. Everyone in Canada is fine. That's the scariest sentence I've ever heard. Canada's aggressive normalcy in a world of corporate sovereignty an…