The blackout

The Rooftop Farmers "The Urban Harvest":

• Origin: Residents of buildings with urban gardens on their terraces or balconies. They realized that their potted plants are now more valuable than any jewel. · Leadership: An older woman, Doña Carmen, with decades of experience in urban agriculture. • Resources: Seeds, compost, gardening tools, and the first sprouts of lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs. Their production is minimal, but symbolic. • Philosophy: "Patience nourishes." They are barricading themselves in their buildings, protecting their rooftops. They are a defensive and isolationist group for now, but in the future they will be a center of absolute power.

The Engineers of the Stone Age:

• Origin: A group of mechanical engineers, plumbers, and technicians who met in a community workshop. Their goal is to rescue "analog" technology. · Leadership: An engineer named Valeria, pragmatic and decisive. • Resources: Hand tools, old diesel engines (without electronics), hand generators, materials for building water filters, stills and pulley systems. • Philosophy: "Reinvent, don't loot." They are trying to restore basic functionalities, such as manually pumping water or generating electricity with adapted bicycles. They are the seed of reconstruction, but they are a lucrative target for predators.

The Pack of Looters "The Predators":

• Origin: Common criminals and desperate people who united under a charismatic and violent leader. They do not have a fixed base. · Leadership: A man known only as "El Chino", a ruthless and practical former street fighter. • Resources: What they can steal. They have improvised weapons (bats with nails, machetes) and their mobility is based on bicycles and skates. They are the scourge of residential neighborhoods. • Philosophy: "The strong take from the weak." They don't plan, they only react. They are an immediate and constant threat, but their lack of organization and long-term planning makes them predictable and potentially self-destructive.

The Guild of the Nomads of Silence:

· Origin: Bicycle messengers, hikers, and bike mechanics who realized they are the absolute masters of efficient transportation. • Leadership: A guild structure. There is no leader, but a "route master" who coordinates. • Resources: Bicycles, repair kits, knowledge of the city including shortcuts and trails. They act as messengers and scouts between other groups, exchanging information for resources. • Philosophy: "Information is the new gold." They are neutral and constantly moving. Their value is immense, but their neutrality makes them vulnerable if someone decides to seize their network by force.

The Hoarders of the "La Fortaleza" Shopping Center:

• Origin: A group of private security guards, vendors, and customers who, on the first day, took control of a medium-sized shopping center. They locked the armored security doors and barricaded themselves inside. • Leadership: A former security guard named Ronaldo, who imposes an iron fist. • Resources: They have access to clothing stores, a hardware store, a sporting goods store (with weapons such as bows and knives) and the perishable food from restaurants that is running out quickly. • Philosophy: "Survival by accumulation." They don't let anyone else in. Their strength is their defensive position, their weakness is the long-term lack of food and the absence of practical knowledge (medicine, agriculture).

The Commune of the "Los Ilustrados" Public Library:

· Origin: A middle-aged librarian and a group of neighbors who witnessed the looting of stores decided to protect a different resource: knowledge. • Leadership: The librarian, David, who acts more as a guide than a leader. • Resources: The library itself. They have access to thousands of books on survival, medicine, agriculture, mechanical and hydraulic engineering. They have basic maintenance tools and have started collecting rainwater. • Philosophy: "Those who survive are those who know." They are a more cohesive and peaceful group, but they lack physical strength and immediate food resources. Their plan is long-term.

Four days ago, a massive coronal mass ejection from the Sun struck Earth. It wasn't just any geomagnetic storm; it was an electromagnetic pulse of unprecedented intensity that fried all the planet's complex electronic circuits. In an instant, the modern world shut down.

What was lost: Every device with a microchip is fried and beyond repair. Modern cars, phones, computers, power plants, drinking water systems, hospitals, airplanes... everything. The global power grid has collapsed. It's not a blackout, it's a technological extinction. The First Days: The first day was one of confusion. The second, of panic. On the third, looting spiraled out of control. Supermarkets, pharmacies, and gun shops were ransacked by desperate crowds. Without police or communications, the law disappeared. Day 4 - The Realization: Today is the day the silence becomes oppressive. There are no rumors of rescue, no planes in the sky, not a single streetlamp lit at night. People look at the wreckage and understand, at last, that there is no turning back. Humanity has been abruptly thrust back into the 19th century, but with a population of billions and without the skills to survive in it. The real panic is over; now begins the long and brutal agony of civilization.

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