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In the TV series **Future Boy Conan** , a massive war left the Earth in
shambles and humans tried to flee the planet on space ships, except they all
failed except for one that managed to crash on an island that somehow survived
the destruction. All of the survivors eventually died except for Conan, who
was born after the space ship crashed, and his grandfather.

Then a girl named Lana washes up on shore and talks about this entire country
of people. If the Earth was destroyed and all the other space ships didn't
make it, where did these people come from?


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Where did the other survivors come from?


The war involved WMDs which destabilised the earth's magnetic core leading to
massive earthquakes and tsunamis which led to the sinking of most major land
masses and general planetary destruction. Some small islands (islets) did
survive and survivors flocked to them.

The two belligerents of the war were the Peace Union and the West with the
former being the aggressive warmongers who used said WMDs and the latter the
more peaceful bunch. Industria and High Harbour are the respective post-
apocalyptic remnants of these two powers which retain their ideologies.

The anime is based on [Alexander
Key](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Key)'s 1970 novel, [The Incredible
Tide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Tide). The linked wiki page
has a decent synopsis of the story.


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