You've not listed your age, I'll assume you know nothing, it helps in completely answering a question.
Huh?
WHY: Is this weapon necessary to defend himself? Or is his aim just to be nasty and dominate everything he can get his hands on? I see no problem with the good guys in the north bothering him unless they have taken it up on themselves to restructure the world by their own standards. And why are they powerful?
He's just a freaky megalomaniac. He just wants to rule and be feared and having the device will just inflate his ego.
WHO: Who else would he have to fear? There may be some New Zealanders and Australians left but that’s not much of an issue. Knowing who he fears also answers part of why he wants the weapon.
He doesn't fear anyone per se but it goes back to his deep desire just to rule, conquer and dominate. Oh there are plenty of people left, it wasn't a total world ending thermonuclear war, there were other (not explained) factors involved.
WHO (con’t): Who is this guy that he can dominate large group of people? Have they forgotten the tragedy of the past? Did they not watch
The Last Kind Of Scotland? (Boring movie but you may wanna take a look for research) Who are these people who would want to follow him? And what of the good guys? Who leads them? Who made the bomb? Perhaps it stems from the cause of the nuclear war. Did the North Korean’s get their act together and invade
He has a kind of mojo going that allows him to dominate. He gives the people he dominates peace and security, though it is the kind of peace a prison brings.
WHAT: What is the weapon? If you have not worked this one out then you have 1% of an idea as the entire concepts hinges on this bomb. The sophistication of the weapon should, in some way, indicate their level of technology. You need to know how to use it if you want to rattle your saber and threaten others. (Ever see
BattleField Earth?)
The weapon is a kind of nuclear weapon, perhaps a a hydrogen bomb perhaps something we (currently) haven't invented.
Technology is middle ages. There is a kind of renaissance going on, though not in the area where the action takes place.
HOW: leading on from the level of tech, how do they approach the act of attaining the weapon? How is the weapon defended, if at all? Or maybe it’s long forgotten by the good guys. How will the bad guys attack and how will the good guys defend? Sounds like a no brainer to me: death of the good guy cannon fodder, cardboard cutout people.
I haven't quite worked out exactly how he'll get the weapon or how he knows how to use it. The bad guy will launch his armies north since the weapon is in the area the good guys hold so he can distract them.
The villian, John Perfect, came into my head last night fully formed, the good guys will be formed out later as I plot.
WHY (part two): If you are big and nasty enough to wage and unprovoked war on a group of people, why bother doing so as a distraction? Just gather your forces, build a mine, and dig. Everyone happy knowing they can share the spoils of the find without sacrificing themselves in a needless war.
He doesn't want to share and there is nothing to share, just the weapon. he doesn't care or lives and dies in his war as long as he gets his weapon.
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Washington? Surely if there was a nuclear war, most places like this metropolis of American life would be absolutely obliterated. A million years of contamination. Several centuries of hiding from nuclear contamination is not going to leave much evidence of any current society. Ever read The Amtrak Wars?
Well, I said it so i didn't have to explain here what happened to east coast. And its a fantasy so somethings the readers will just accept.
Draco Merest…
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