So I'm considering actually starting a separate blog for a story I plan on writing and infrequently updating. What is the name of the story? I have no fucking clue, but for now I'm simply calling it the Phazer Project. This will be a post-apocalyptic horror story that's taking place on a ravaged Earth. An undisclosed cataclysm has destroyed a good portion of civilization and an almost-constant electromagnetic storm across the planet has rendered most technology unusable. The perpetual storms and climate change has rendered most of Earth uninhabitable while killing off most of the vegetation.
While most of humanity dies off and starves to death, several unlucky members suffer a fate worse than death. People exposed to the electromagnetic storms for prolonged periods don't die; the electronic signals manage to separate themselves from their bodies and they end up becoming Phazers. They're nothing more than neurological impulses and impressions of people, almost like wraiths or ghosts. They possess abilities to manipulate the environment magnetically and to infiltrate and manipulate any forms of technology, which is a reason most electronics and metals are dangerous or avoided entirely. Those in that form slowly destabilize over time and eventually go insane and becoming mindless sentient masses of energy.
A large crumbling city in southern Brazil known as Genoma is the last refuge for humanity and the only place on Earth entirely unaffected by the electromagnetic storms. It's in a completely isolated system, making it impossible for the Phazers to infiltrate. Yet it's about to disappear as well; the generators are running out of power and they're both ejecting people out and barring most people from entering due to overcrowding.
Large amounts of technology are poured into creating Reapers. Reapers are both the saviors and mortal enemies of humanity; they're self-sufficient creatures who are shrouded in mystery. Some suspect they're Phazers installed into isolated systems or they're exceptionally powerful human specimens put into suits. Bulletproof, armored, self-regenerating and virtually immortal, they're meant to use their scythes and battery packs to kill Phazers and convert them into electricity to send back to Genoma.
The story itself involves one particular Reaper in general, codenamed NA 47-121. He stumbles across a Phazer who's a young girl named Anabel. She's actually been dead for over 7 years, an extremely long time for a Phazers to remain stable and rational. NA 47-121 decides to take the Phazer back to Genoma alive to study the key to her remarkable stability. Of course this draws the attention of other Reapers who want to make claims and return her themselves for the credit, and the few Phazers that hear of the girl traveling with a Reaper unharmed earns retaliation from them as well. All while psychotic human Outsiders hunt and seek to dismantle Reapers to learn the secrets of their inner-workings, the two are hunted from all sides as they traverse across the landscape back to Genoma.
I think it's an interesting premise, so hopefully I can run with it somewhere.
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