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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]

Uninhabitable how?

[mindtricks]

It's nuclear wasteland.

[regulatingpressure]

That's one more for 'nukes', then.

How much is gone? Where's the population now?

[mindtricks]

In Mega Cities, behind radiation walls
There's 3 Mega Cities, the rest is wasteland in America

[regulatingpressure]

Where are the Mega Cities? [ now she's almost wondering if that could be the case on her own earth, though why they'd be radio silent, she doesn't know. ]

[mindtricks]

A couple all around the world. In North America, Meta City One covers the area from what used to be Boston to what used to be Washington DC. Meta City Two is in what used to California. Texas City you can guess.

[regulatingpressure]

Where's Mt. Weather? Do you know?

[mindtricks]

I don't. Why?

[regulatingpressure]

That's where the drop ship landed, or close to it.

I just wanted to figure how close we'd be to one of these cities, if our flavor of nuke apocalypse were that kind of lucky.

[mindtricks]

Drop ship?

[regulatingpressure]

One-way shuttle geared for re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

[mindtricks]

Re-entry?

[regulatingpressure]

That's what it's called when you fall to the planet from out in space.

[mindtricks]

Why were you in outer space?

[regulatingpressure]

I was born there, on the Ark.

[mindtricks]

What about your version of earth?

[regulatingpressure]

Uninhabitable for the most part - until recently anyway.

Nuclear war, then the fallout.

[mindtricks]

It doesn't sound dissimilar. What country sent the Ark?

[regulatingpressure]

Countries, plural.

Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
France
India
Japan
Russia
United Kingdom
United States
Uganda
Venezuela

They each had stations. A thirteenth got shot down, the rest clumped together to try and survive the end of the world.

[mindtricks]

Who shot them down?

[regulatingpressure]

Hard to say. Everyone blamed everyone else.

[mindtricks]

Sorry to hear it.