
Starvation is only held back by constant meals of a nutritious but disgusting algae slime.
In Unhallowed Metropolis London is the only remaining bastion for the United Kingdom (the status of the colonies and the rest of Europe are unknown) and the undead are held back by the mighty Deathwatch military elite and independent Undertaker bounty hunters. literally stealing light and hope) from the "Rebellious Provinces" (i.e. Since the Alhambrans consider the survival of the city to be the highest priority, this justifies their "taxation" (i.e. Alhambra is the only city that survived after the Darkness swallowed the other Kingdoms, living in stasis behind a magical shield. The residents of the Lost City of Alhambra in Princess: The Hopeful certainly consider their city to be this. Outside of America, the other continents fared a lot better. The Zone is the only major settlement of humans who aren't bandits, tiny villages or slaves to the demons and the Zone houses a whopping 80 million citizens in its cannon-studded walls, though there are plans to establish the Bastion, a second Citadel City, after several earlier failed attempts. In Apophis Consortium's Obsidian: Age of Judgement, the Zone is the massive Citadel City of what remains of the United States against the Legions of Hell. The fortress of Kandelspire is the only thing that stands in the way of Lolth's invasion of the dwarven kingdom of Maldev. Dungeons & Dragons module Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Succesfully arriving, they are only able to establish a single city Outremer as the hinterlands of Eden have become warped beyond recognition and human forces including their superhuman Astrotemplar stem the tide of mutants outside while the Abyssal forces from beyond are making their way to Eden through the use of Wytchstone. The surviving humans had to make an exodus back to Eden (Earth). Humanity had taken to the stars only to lose their place against the coming alien legions (the Other).
Dark Astral, an offshoot of Zweihänder, was heavily influenced by Warhammer 40,000 but things are even worse for humanity.
#The last bastion how to#
It's not the last free human settlement, but it is the last refuge of the only people who have any idea how to fight the Yeerks, or even that there's an alien invasion.
Animorphs: After the Yeerks discover they're human and they're forced to flee with their families, the Animorphs take refuge in the Hork-Bajir Valley. At the time of the story, it's also the last place in that or any other world that is not ruled by the Big Bad Lilith either openly or spiritually.
It's an enormous fortified tower in the sphere of Kether, at the very holiest site in the universe. Bastion in Tsun-Tsun TzimTzum, true to its name.In Harry Turtledove's The Man with the Iron Heart a fortress was constructed in the Bavarian Alps to house Reinhard Heydrich and remaining Nazi command structure as he plotted against the Allies.During the course of the novel another, forgotten Lesser Redoubt is discovered. The Last Redoubt in William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land, a gigantic Arcology housing the remnants of humanity, constantly besieged by the horrors in the dark and doomed to fall once the Earth Current that protects it dies out.Minas Tirith during Sauron's attack in The Return of the King.
Helm's Deep serves this exact function for the Rohirrim.