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Helios.:
im not sure either if an electric generator of ANY power level could disrupt the magnetic field of a planet. if you could i don't think it coudl look like 'cold poles and hot deserts' ii think it would be more like 'gamma radiation killed every living thing on land'

Squidslinger Gilder:
Yeah magnetic field disruption for the level of tech is a bit extreme. Granted there are times in history when our own magnetic field has flipped and it is a known phenomenon that does happen. But a device to control that and potentially manipulate it would have to be able to manipulate the core of the GOIO world. Unless GOIO takes place on maybe a small moon or a tiny rocky planet, I don't see that happening with the level of tech. Besides that, small worlds that are not tidally locked to a large world as a moon would not remain geologically active enough to maintain an atmosphere. Basically become a dead world like Mercury or Ceres. There would be no magnetic field to protect it from solar winds which would blast away the atmosphere.

The only potential way it could be done would maybe be with a Plutoian system. Where you have two planets orbiting around a barycenter. As we saw with Pluto, it is probably the most interesting planetary body we have in this solar system. Imagine that happening in closer to a star...makes me wonder.

Helios.:
absolutely, the magnetic field has to have been the same the whole time or else everything would be dead as hell...

im trying to suggest how the changes could be wrought with the least amount of additional information added, fitting int eh specifics of the world we are given and the history we have. the less we have to add, in my view, the better. occams razor steers us away from drawn out views with a million moving parts, i suggest

Clockeye:
I actually tought of that for a long time, and I think the answer could be much, much easier.
You saw how battlefields looked like during WWI? The miles of no-man's land?
What if they fought so long the NML spread for tousands of miles and even further?
Lacks of food, lacks of clean water.... half the population rotting in the mud.
And the endless dust being blewn up by constant explosions.
Don't you think that this could cause a global-wide disaster?
Imagine the sides of conflict slowly dying, whole countries with no food or clean water. Entire portions of fields
turned into desert by years of exploation and drought.

As for the plague, I think the trenches and war itself is the best place to start a new disease. Soldiers would often
leave their positions and bring diseases o their homes, infecting others.

And so as the time passed, towns were dying and everyone was too busy with war to take care of their
envoirmental problem.

So what I'm saying, there was no big weapon that would turn the world post-apo within hours.
Just long, long process that started a chai reaction which results we see for these day.

Basically, I'm supporting Helios opinion on how the world fell.

BUT... as for the gas thing...
What if the process of getting the gas involved using the fresh water in excessive ammount? What if thy were producing too many blimps, and started destroying
world's supplies of water? That would further destroy the climate and cause more problems.
Now, let's say humanity fell... and the technology of gas making has been lost...
Maybe Gabriel did not invent the gas? Maybe he was just smart enough to repair one-more junk machine he found
buried somewhere? He found a relic from the past and that's why noone could create baloons before his appearance?

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