An apocalyptic event forced the last remnants of humanity to seek refuge in the now melted continent of Antarctica. Againts all odds they did not only survive, but thrived.
After a millenia, what does life, culture and sociey now look like on this world of 6 month long day/night cycles, aurora filled skies, frequent meteor falls and probably giant penguins.
Let's make a setting
Xavier Long
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Nicholas Fisher
Would it actually be possible for crops to be grown or are we going to be living on mostly fish?
Cameron King
Would humanity be able to survive if there were no crops? Not sure how big Antarctica is to sustain hunter gatherers, much less how there would be many animals to hunt even
OP did say melted, so I guess it would be at worst a Scandinavian/Russian level climate, which still had agriculture in it
As for culture, yeah were gonna need more examples on climate and temperature, but assuming it is still pretty cold
>lots of festivals for things like the White Nights, and a large emphasis on the yearly cycle, with almost a pagan 8 segment calender for the year with how drastic things change throughout the year
>traditions around the aurora borealis, and probably lots of domestic traditions for the long and cold nights
>seafaring is going to be important for trade throughout the archipelago, even in further inland areas
Jose Collins
Also what level of technology and what happened to force this exile?
Evan Miller
>descendants of the nations that had claims on Antarctica often lord it over everyone else, and on occasion try and enforce it
>these actions led the descendants of those nations which yet reserve the rights to make a claim to indeed claim the whole of the land, leading to a series of wars
I mean, I guess the main things would be soil. Shit takes time to build up, and that's time humanity might not have. So unless they're shipping in topsoil from the presumably burning north, that could be an issue.
Blake Flores
The penguins would kill the survivors. They're huge penguins. You don't mess with penguins man.
Robert Martinez
Here's a reasonably accurate size comparison between europe and antarctica, if that helps.
Jacob Morgan
Wow that's quite the size
One of the biggest things to consider is that there are 6 continents worth of people all being compressed into one area, and it would actually make for a pretty cool intrigue setting as the many many cultures fight for a place on the continent or try to form alliances and diplomacy
Talking out of my ass here but I'd think it would be an arms race by the existing countries to reach the continent, establish territory, and defend from others, so that only the more advanced societies would be able to continue on in the new land while weaker ones couldn't get a foothold in time
Europe has a few dozen countries, so Antarctica may have a good amount of countries, but it would be a pretty hard fight between them all to survive, especially with the population compression issue, as a good amount of the world population would get offed
Jose James
Or the vast majority of people are dead by whatever drove them there. It could be pretty empty.
Ethan Lee
I have to agree with you there