DC : DARK CARIBBEAN

The year is 1666. Five years ago, the British Empire seized control of the island of Jamaica from the Spanish, marking the beginning of the Age of Piracy. This was also the beginning of a mounting apocalypse; on the Summer solstice, a storm began to gather over the whole Caribbean which never broke, and the undead began crawling up out of the black waves. At first they came in single numbers, but hordes gestated and soon smaller settlements were blotted out by a torrent of lifeless, nameless creatures. Possessed flesh of dead sailors, ghosts of displaced inhabitants, skeletal constructs shrouded in seaweed and muck, and horrible monsters born from the unknowable dark places in the world all emerged from the sea and consumed all they could. The survivors of this assault quickly discovered that the remnants of destroyed undead, called Ash, act as both a potent reality-altering psychedelic drug and as an additive to black powder, making it both much more explosive and immune to water damage. A new status quo emerged from this, and thus the Dark Caribbean was born. ||| Ships based on the Pirate Borg game setting