The American Empire was a belligerent pre-Sixty Minute War nation located in North America.
According to Professor Nimrod Beauregard Pennyroyal, The American Empire was the most dominant nation which was said to rule the world.
History[]
The American Empire engaged Greater China in the Sixty Minute War by 2116. The surface was utterly destroyed by nukes, orbital strikes, virus-bombs and asteroids, and the entire land mass was then known as the Dead Continent. (Anchorage was the only surviving population 'center', despite the infrastructure being vaporized; but the population remained nomadic until the first traction boom hit, and the current traction city was built. In other parts of the world, the English language survived, the dialects merging to form Anglish.)
Cities in the American Empire[]
- San Francisco (destroyed by MEDUSA. )
- New York (blasted into Blast-Glass by nuclear strikes; existence only theorised on ancient charts observed by Nimrod Pennyroyal.)
- Los Angeles (possibly merged with San Francisco to form San Angeles, according to ODIN.)
- Chicago (located on the Plain of Craters, according to Nimrod Pennyroyal.)
- Milwaukee (also located there; rusty skyscraper remains and concrete rubble found, checked supposedly by Nimrod Pennyroyal, again.)
- Detroit (a lost city also near these places, its current status is unknown. There may have been people living there, as documented by Nimrod Pennyroyal.)
- Anchorage (original city destroyed and vaporized - fortunately, after the population was evacuated by Dolly Rasmussen, very shortly before the War.
- It eventually developed into a Traction City, before going static in the region of Vineland.)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- In the original version of Mortal Engines, America was full of traction cities.[1]
- Philip Reeve does believe that the Dead Continent is full of traction cities. However, he made America "dead" to avoid having to build traction Chicago, Milwaukee, and New York; which would've made the books "too big".[2]
- All such cities were eventually mentioned in Predator's Gold.