Macro-Story

In the year 2196, a man named Michael Matthews is announced in the news as the first man to live to be 200 years old.

It is released in the papers, newscasts, social media. It's the most talked about event in human history.

The reason he has been able to live so long is that the government was testing a longevity pill named Vitain, and he was the first huge success in it's implementation.

Weeks later, the pill is available for pre-order. The first 500,000 samples created are sold out in the first 24 hours. It's a worldwide phenomenon, and in the chemists' eyes a huge success.

Two years later, the pill is now implemented as the normalcy that every human is now dependent on. There's even a kid's version. At first, the pill was primarily used on the elderly and extending the lifespan of people on their deathbeds. Now, everyone from ages 6-150 is taking this pill. The government reaps its benefits as they are now making billions off the pill's revenue.

We enter into the New Golden Age, the longest living point in human history. Average lifespan is now three times what it was before. However, there is a rapidly growing economic divide between people. The lower class quickly becomes the most prominent and eventually takes up most of the middle class until it's nearly abolished.

After the death of President Walden's wife in 2204, a huge controversy over whether the pills are guaranteed to make people live longer comes up, and we find out there are also synthesized versions being created.

One day, the government comes to a conclusion, the average person in the lower class is not a benefit to the world and shouldn't be allowed to extend life passed a certain age. So, they restrict the use to wealthy government officials only. This causes a huge outcry from America and descends its citizens into chaos.

This ushers us into the Divide and End War between the Government and the rest of the country. After 2296 the United States is known as the End War where millions died and in the end, the government wins and closes off its aid to the world. A new wasteland of America is born. One nation, under Vitain.