Milken Forts, Part 1.

Something I’m working on for my Backerkit. Still in progress.

Milken Forts

The Old Americans built their roads to last, using advanced concrete and ceramics far beyond the ability of modern engineers to reproduce in bulk, or to even repair without magic. Centuries of disuse and the steady assault of nature has crumbled most of them away anyway, but a remarkable number of overpasses survived in a state of half-collapse. In a world without reliable access to mundane explosives, they’ll survive a good deal longer.

It didn’t take very long for people to take advantage of this. Modern roads tend to follow the paths laid out by the ancient ones, which meant that intersections retained a strategic importance. An Old American overpass is halfway to being a fortress to begin with: the first crude proto-forts simply enclosed the sides, and put a sentry post on top. Later generations got more creative.