The Unfortunate Scavenger

In the days of man, we had fought over everything to survive, but after a battle with Mother Nature, we had made and had always come out of the winning end.

After years of fighting with nature, we had become more than a mindless animal. We had become more than a sapient species that had done everything to survive. We had become aware of our cleverness and became more than we were.

War is an everlasting factor in life; an ant colony fights other ants for a resource like food and things to keep life going for its workers and its own population to survive. But unlike them, we fought, rebuilt, and learned to become better and smarter to survive in an ever changing world, making tools to fight the wildlife and even our own kind.

Minutes turn into hours, hours into years, and years into centuries. After so many centuries, in the years of the 20th century, mankind now has the power to end the world as they known it.

But lucky for them, they backed up from blowing up Earth, but the power of the feared weapon was not let go of the coming years and they slowly, one by one, were being disabled, but some things never change as they just prolong the inevitable.
In 2000 to 2020's was a time of looking for newer and renewable energy, but the quest had never reached their goal. And in 2024, the oil resources were depleting.

Oil rich countries, like Iraq and many others from the Middle East, had lost almost all of their oil due to their oil rigs catching fire and burning out of hand along with the supplies of oil with it.

It was then in 2028, the spark of war, as the UN had a meeting to negotiate, but things didn't turn well and the UN conference turned out to be nothing more than a misunderstanding and bickering among each other, what lit the first spark to an inevitable war.
The flames were small at first but turned into a roaring fire in 2029. WWIII started off when North Korea attacked South Korea, Europe Union fighting with the new Middle-Eastern Alliance for its remaining oil, so beginning a war that would be the cleaning of everything on the face of Earth.

The remaining countries tried to fix this by finding new power sources to make more energy while others began to research for new weapons in case they got involved in the war.

After 2031, scientists in weapon research in the USA had developed an all new nuke-like weapon. But unlike the ones that can obliterate entire cities, this one will not leave behind the horrendous fallout and radiation, Unfortunately, it came too late to change the outcome of the war.

June 27 1:05 pm of 2032 was the time that the great war ended in a fiery hell...

People from all over the world ran to safety and hid away wherever they could, hoping that the bomb's effects would not kill them: a strange gas that melted the lungs if an individual inhaled it. The survival from the horrendous event thought that this would be the end of humanity. But this was only the beginning of a new age in the world. The flames of the great war finally died, leaving behind only ashes and cities in ruins, but this allowed a new society to rise up from it to begin a new era.

New nations and tribal societies rebuilt what was left of the world and changed it. As time went on, people rebuilt from the old and created a new age. But some things never change. Ten years after the bombs fell, people were at war once more for ideology, power, and survival, creating a new age called The Wasteland Age. During this period, mankind had gone back to the Dark Age mixed with the old Wild West, having now made the world a place ruled under the law of "Survival Of The Fittest," where things like fighting to stay alive and carrying a gun turned out to be as common as death.

But there was a group of people that still held kindness in their hearts during those dark times located at the California Wasteland up in the mountains, inside bunkers built before the Great War even started, naming themselves "The Preppers".

The Preppers were a faction group that had skills from the old world and had their minds set up to help anyone in need and protect anybody they saw, rebuilding the world that was almost forgotten.

Most of their members had picked up jobs in the Wasteland to help people as they could, and that's how we meet our protagonist in the Plains Wasteland.