Mermachines

This is the sister timeline of Attack Machines, where the number of humans who got survived by the so-called Kraventhorn attacks was higher on that fateful day (500.000 survivors). The human population now stands at 10.85 million.

The main divergence starts all the way back in the last days of the dinosaurs. Unbeknownst to many, a secret zone of one of the seas featured some sort of mergene, creating the first merperson, in this case, the first merdinosaur. Only a few hundred dinosaurs managed to survive under such conditions to this very day, but were frozen for many years.

The threat of Kraventhorn proved to be beneficial for immortals (aka merpeople) but changed the world of the mortals (aka humans). Limited manpower led to about a decade of struggles. However at the end of the day the United States managed to survive