Setting
Set in the year 3177, the Sun's violent activity and increased solar flares have reduced Earth* to a chaotic state.
Humanities disregard for the Earth's well being and their lust for wealth and power eventually caught up with them and the planet is now damaged beyond repair.
The polar caps have melted (consider the land mass sinking?), the tectonic plates have shifted into unrecognisable formations, continents sundered forever and electric storms ravage the skies.
The only remnants of life that remain are those quick enough to adapt, mainly the human race and creatures of the sea.
The humans only chance for survival was to build up, above the rising sea level. Only the major cities had the money and resources to achieve such demanding feats and joined together to make one mega city.
Built up over countless generations, the mega city (still needs to be named) is influenced by numerous cultures design wise and the technology is more advanced the higher you go. Around 2/3 of the vertical city is submerged showing a radical change in generations as you climb the city.
With the sea now at its highest and showing no signs of continued rising, the humans are left exhausted of resources and have reached their limit for any kind of further expansion. They now focus on maintaining order within a tightly over populated space.
Fuel comes from oil rigs that were built up alongside the city like giant straws and resources come from dangerous expeditions that find pockets of remaining resources buried still within the sunken world below.
This project see's the city in a time where its at its most cut throat. The Government hosts arena matches for money and to keep an eye on any possible threats, to then later monitor and perhaps eliminate. The populace see's the matches as entertainment, something to do in a city stranded in a hostile world.
The cities gangs and people who want to make a name for themselves or those who have even given up on life, participate in the arenas. For the gangs its not only a way of earning cash and respect, it also acts as a way of scouting out talent for possible recruitments. Not to mention they get to bash up some government lackey's who think they can dominate the arena.
*Might have to change it to a parallel earth.
