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[regulatingpressure]

Got two things to ask and one thing to offer. I'll try to make it short and sweet.


QUESTION 1: What destroyed or depopulated your version of Earth? Nukes, asteroids, zombies? If nothing did yet, what took the closest shot so far?

Same question if you're not from Earth - just swap out Earth for wherever you came from.

I'm not compiling a spreadsheet or anything. I guess it's just something I've wondered.


QUESTION 2: What are we even doing here? What's our destination? The purpose of the voyage? Who sent us, and why us? Maybe I missed something and by all means point me there if I did, but in less than a day, this ship sucks up more resources than the Ark could spare for a month.

I've been here for over a month now and I'm the first person I've seen ask anything like this so far. I want to think it's because we were up to our airholes in highly invasive nanotechnology. Or - like I said, maybe I missed the big 'who, what, where, and why' memo.


OFFER: I'm bored off my rocks, if you haven't picked up on that yet. I was a zero-G mech back on the Ark, and if that's not enough, I helped fix the thing that saved your asses pre-Jump. I can repair, rebuild, or build from scrap just about anything you can think of. So somebody give me a job before I start opening panels and improving whatever the hell's inside.

[ is she serious? she very well could be, so throw her a bone here, yeah? ]

Comments

[regulatingpressure]

Past-tense or future-tense?

[circumitus]

past.

and present.

[regulatingpressure]

What kind of warfare? Nuclear?

[circumitus]

combination of nuclear, biological, and energy. seen parts of the world decimated by bombs, disease. some were wiped of all organic matter in minutes - uninhabitable now.

[regulatingpressure]

Never heard of energy warfare. Is that like monopolizing resources?

[circumitus]

negative. come from a time where a type of energy is harnessed into weapons called vessels and battle-braves. emits blasts that reduce living tissue to ash, can mostly preserve inorganic material.

[regulatingpressure]

So actual energy warfare. Assuming this was Earth, what year?

[ part of her's kind of. really wondering what earth could've done if they hadn't nuked themselves, to be honest. ]

[circumitus]

believe it was the year 2153. though considering the existence of alternate earths, it's possible that this reality doesn't apply to most others.

[She's been here way too long enough to actually accept that.]

[regulatingpressure]

It doesn't. Ours got nuked before 2025.

[circumitus]

so soon? that was around when things were starting to get bad, supposedly.

[regulatingpressure]

Yeah. I guess it took most people by surprise. Nobody had time to prepare.

[circumitus]

usually seems to be the case.

what war was it that did your earth in? assuming that our wars also have little to nothing in common.

[regulatingpressure]

It wasn't even really a war. Just something snapped and everyone launched their nukes at everyone else.

[circumitus]

huh.

can't decide if that's better or worse.

[regulatingpressure]

depends on whether you think it's mercy that nobody saw it coming

[ 'ignorance is bliss' and all that. ]

[circumitus]

from personal experience, it's sometimes a blessing not to see the blade before it lops off your head.



so to speak. [It's not like she's ever been decapitated before. Just blown up. And shot in the skull. Among various other deaths.]