2046 Winter
Opportunity Results
The winter season is one of the harshest Humanity has experienced so far. Due to a combination of simply lacking nutriments, the disruption and decay of urban centres and the Initiative hoarding more and more energy production facilities for their own purposes causes massive human life losses in the scale of billions. The cold winter sun shines upon graveyards of frozen flesh, metal and concrete as cities are universally deserted as being too dangerous and rife with starving, driven mad predator animals.
This marks the beginning of predicted end time scenarios of the original scientists who have founded the Initiative. It will be not long now before Earth is considered hostile to all human life in any biome. It is high time we leave.
Speaking of leaving, the Eisbär half tracks have been finished and the tunnels exvacated and tarred for road conditions. All is ready and go for Project Cargo, boosting the transport capabilities considerably and providing the colony with some robust off-road vehicles in case they are needed. While relatively small for cargo haulers to fit through the bridge ring, they will perform admirably. Probably. We are not exactly sure.
Eisbär Half Track Squadron obtained!Rcruiting the desertwalkers was a hard undertaking as they tracked down the source of the initial help in the Arab Spring – the Initiative. Consequently, they were a little bit upset over a clandestine organisation first helping them achieve the freedom they wanted just to disrupt it and ultimately snatch it away again as they also knew about the materials and funds the Initiative has stolen from the Provisionary Government, which forced them to turn just as authoritarian as the former Royal House.
But over the months a concentrated effort to alleviate the animosity and provide relief effort to the charges of the Desertwalkers softened them up and recruiting talks happened. Most of the diseases plagueing the refugees were Pellagra and scurvy and other deficiency diseases, which were remedied mostly with vitamin supplements as a healthy diet can't be simply done anymore. The hopelessness of the situation, even in the Middle East, convinced many of the desertwalkers to ultimately abandon their posts and join the Initiative as they learned about the ultimate endgoal of them all.
While not terribly happy they shrank in number, they thanked us in the end for the help and relations remained peaceful, especially after they got equipped with some surplus mortars and Eisbär halftracks, which, obviously, work in the desert just as fine.
Military Force (experienced, scouts) obtained!With the new allies in form of a scout company with the desertwalkers, raiding Cern has proven sucessful, with only minimal losses. Most of these losses actually happened due to equipment failure of NBC suits and antiradiation medicine, being exposed for too long to be considered healthy and evacuating. Apparently there was a meltdown of some radioactive experiment abandoned in CERN destroying most of the electrical infrastructure, including lately installed automatic defenses.
While this destroyed most experiment data and files, some cutting edge technology has been recovered, which will serve scientists to boost more complex, academic tasks.
Soldiers complain about voices and visual hallucinations, even hours after they have raided CERN. They have been quarantined for a period of two weeks, but most symptoms have passed and it didn't seem infectious. It is presumed this was just a case of MPI.
Upgraded Lab Equipment obtained!Project Phoenix is a difficult one to handle. While the median MVP is suggested to be around 4000 to 5000 people, which is barely scraped by current Initiative personnel numbers, there is no denying that genetic drift and inbreeding can effectively render the colony nonviable if poorly managed. For this purpose, genetic engineering and cloning has been thrown into the discussion, heavily debated along the lines of free love, eugenics and ethics. While it is true that people need to be seen as another resource for the sakke of Humanity's survival, many scientists hesistate to actually ry and produce clones, especially as this would lead to genetic sterility just as fast.
Ultimately it is decided that congenital disease needs to be minimised and the genetic diversity of an eventual colony stimulated by gathering civilians under a different lens : their DNA.
For this, a genetic database has been established, currently being compiled from the entire personnel of the Initiative as well ways devised to gather civilians who have genetics not yet found in the database, especially considering recessive genes responsible for most common disabilities.
The stockpiling part of Project Phoenix is somewhat easier. Strict rationing of current food and converting it to robust non-perishable food sources gained a small surplus of foodstuff for the colony, although people complain about their meals being smaller and restricted.
Tiny Food Stockpile obtained!
Project Phoenix advancedNew Years Eve comes and goes. But this time, not fireworks explode for it, but nuclear weaponry. Tactical and strategic bombardements of hated enemies, of pesky raiders, of everyone to bring Humanity to its last Hurrah – the world burns thermonuclear fire. Luckily, the Antartic is unscathed. But this severely limits opportunities for the next quartile as fallout and sooth will make navigation both difficult and dangerous.
Opportunities None!ProjectsProject Phoenix 20% doneBridge time
5 minutes 30 seconds
Initiative Status
Military Force (experienced, scouts)
General Boleslawich
Small Weapon Design Department
Small Programming Department
Small Physics Department
Tiny Biology Department
Engineering Team
Civilian Team
Upgraded Lab Equipment
“Honey Bee” Prototype
AVH-23s,M16s,MP5s
Light Support Weaponry
Small Material Stockpile
Tiny Food Stockpile
Eisbär Half track squadron
Delivery Capacity
60% full
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