Early planning stages (sci-fi)
I’m planning a story about a post “Kessler cascade” future. Kessler cascade is basically space debris striking other space debris, causing a knock on reaction. Preventing space travel, destroying satellites and also heating the atmosphere and making earth “almost” uninhabitable.
The story will take place a few generations after the world has stabilised.
While I’ve got some plot lines down, got some of the science down. I’m really struggling with the culture. I was thinking Stone Age meets modern age materials and also textbooks. I lean towards a science based idea as i might be able to work in science books being revered as religious texts?
I can’t figure out if they’d have a deity, would be communist or would be on a scientific merit based system.
I’m imagining about 5% of the population surviving and being placed in Britain, although I plan to only allude to it being Britain and not specifically mention this