Post-war Scandinavia had formed a Scandinavian Sub-State by the 2120s and, a few years later, the Scandinavian Confederation, of which little is known. A city-state of Midgard has also been mentioned. World maps[1] depict a vast ice desert that covers all of Norway, northern Finland, the north and northwest of Sweden.
Sweden dominates the sex-mek market. Their most advanced robots are almost indistinguishable from real women and Per Lunquest was famed for designing the world's finest sex-meks, the now-antique Series 7 Love Droid (of which P.J. Maybe's Inga was one of the few remaining).
The Scandinavian Express flies from the state to Mega-City One.[2]
In the Judge Dredd Mega-Special #1 map (set 2110), Scandinavia was depicted as part of the Sov Block.
History[]
The European City-States opposed President Booth and were targeted during the Atomic Wars.
A former tutor at the Megaheim Law Academy, Sven "Fawn" Svendsen, was sent to the Titan penal colony during the 2080s.[3]
Eliza "Jinx" Salamanga was a Grade One technopath, able to psychically interact with machinery through a binary language. She escaped to Mega-City One from a Svalbard psych-ward around 2102. [4]
Helsinki hosted the Olympics in 2112. Devlin Waugh won the gold for Brit-Cit in flower arranging but it turned out he'd been using steroids.[5]
The Scandinavian Sub-State was a market leader in 'girlfriend' robots in 2124, with their pricey Au Pair range.[6]
The 'meatmonger' aliens abducted dozens of civilians from the Norway Dust-Zone in their 2125 raid.[7]
In 2126, the city-state of Midgard attended the Global Justice Summit in Mega-City One (where Chief Judge Sven was the first to say Hershey should capitulate to the Judda to save the rest of them). It was also one of the foreign powers watching Luna-1 in case it fell into chaos and they could stake a claim.[8]
Scandic mega-chess champion Sven Tefallsen was the prototype of a next stage in human intelligence, boasting 300 IQ points. He was still barred from the 2126 Mega-Chess Championships in Mega-City One as he'd forgotten to apply for a visa.[9]
The Scandinavian Confederation had a Consul in Mega-City One. In 2130, the consul's son Sven Helvig Larrsen was abducted by Total War; they demanded the release of all Total War prisoners in exchange for the boy. The Fargo Clan were able to track the boy down. [10]
Sov agent Nadia, under her cover identity of "Silva Torsen", was responsible for importing the late Otto Sump's Ugly craze into Scandinavia.
The Scandanavian Federation had been sending research expeditions into the Arctic in violation of Sov territory for a long while, and had been increasing this for years by 2142 - the slow demise in post-Apocalypse War security funding had left blindspots in the Sov's monitoring. Scandanabian scientist Qilin Nilsson was studying contagious diseases in the Arctic when she was possessed by the Horseman Pestilence and deliberately infected herself.[11]
After Mega-City One's Project Providence was exposed in 2143, the Scandinavian Confederation launched a "no chrono pledge" to ban time travel tech on environmental grounds. In early 2144, they indicated they'd vote with the Sino Block to impose sanctions on MC-1 for Providence. [12]
Mongoose RPG[]
Red are cities, white are ice deserts, green are nuclear wastelands
In the early 2000s Dredd RPG from Moongoose, a worldmap in the core sourcebook shows the Norwegian coastal cities of Midgard and North Cape, the latter having a Bifrost Bridge to Iceland and its city of Port UFO. Sweden and Denmark are marked "Nuclear Desert" while Norway and Iceland are "Ice Deserts".[13]
A later supplement called the Nordic megacity Megaheim: a major Black Atlantic port city. Megaheim pirates in ultra-fast longboats sail in European waters, dressing themselves and their vessels like the Vikings of old and acting like them in terms of brutality. Megaheim has a group of all-female Judges with jetpacks, the Valkyries, who patrol and engage any pirate squadron. [14]
Notes[]
- The 2002 Judge Dredd RPG was going to go into greater detail about Megaheim and its Viking Judges, but the project ended before any detail could be made.[15] John Calibur, who had worked on the RPG, would put his unpublished ideas online for fan-made RPGs: Megaheim is one of the wealthiest cities on Earth, "nicknamed the 'Norse Lode' because of its abundant astril deposits, a metal prized by Earth's alien neighbours." Judicial control came from Judge-King Odinax and the Warriors of Justice. Its spaceport is Port UFO.[16]
References[]
- ↑ Prog 701
- ↑ Day of Chaos: Nadia
- ↑ Rico: For I Have Sinned novella
- ↑ Tales of the Black Museum: The Girl With The Gila Munja Tattoo
- ↑ Mentioned as "recent" in Swimming with Blood; the Katmandu Olympics in Return of the Taxidermist are in 2116
- ↑ Megazine 4.15, The Girlfriend
- ↑ Judge Dredd: Meatmonger
- ↑ Jihad audio drama and Eclipse novel, both by James Swallow
- ↑ Megazine 217
- ↑ ...Regrets, progs 1577 to 1581
- ↑ End of Days
- ↑ Megazine 440: "Praise Zort!"
- ↑ The Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game
- ↑ Rookie's Guide to Atlantis and the Black Atlantic
- ↑ https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=14631.0 Forum post by John Caliber in 2005
- ↑ Wayback machine for Calibur's RPG website