Ghosts of the Shattered

The bomb-sites vary in size and shape. In some places, large kinetic bombs were dropped, creating craters and later filling in with water to become lakes. In other places, the kinetic bombs were dropped outside populated areas, to drive the people within closer together. What followed were usually gene-bombs, which released sometimes wild, sometimes specific programming into the population. Towards the end of the war, more and more random-action gene bombs were used, as talks broke down and any attempts at peace between the two factions turned into bitter grudges instead. Eventually, the supplies needed to make the gene-bombs dwindled, and the kinetic bombs came back.

And then came the energy bombs. Not nuclear, but crystal powered, the power magnification crystals' structure would fail, and the safeties set in place to keep the energy stored inside would fail. Before the wars, very little study had been done on the interaction of the energy the crystals gave off when it met the results of the genetic tampering done. After the wars started, the use of the crystals and the gene tampering both were needed for something besides experimentation. The effects of the bombs were unpredictable, to say the least. Up till that point, some children had already been born of parents affected by the first gene-bombs. Already showing various genetic anomalies, many were further warped by the crystal energy, and then when a few unexploded gene bombs were hit by the blasts, even more so.

Many, many died. Others survived. Wind carried the radiation and free-floating bits of gene-bomb and affected a greater area. Those who died and were trapped in place by the bombs, their minds shattered and scattered, sometimes appear in fragments during the night. People who have gotten close to the sites of the last bombings have reported figures, fragmented and wispy, wandering among the ruins. Those who are stupid enough to take rocks and earth and trees from the graveyards soon find themselves carrying more than they planned on.