2047 Spring
Opportunity ResultsAs the soot of the last thermonuclear war settles the land, the Initiative is high drive as even military personnel and retreated agents begin to discuss and plan ahead for the colony. Protocols are established, mostly to handle day and day routines, but project ideas spring up, are snuffed out and debated heavily. Since much more free time and resources are on hand, many agents try to bring their ideas to the table what is needed and what is not. Ultimately, it has crystallized for a more spread out effort, especially concerned with early colonization efforts.
One of these efforts concerns the initial build-up of the colony. While the Genesis Library has extensive blueprints with standard parts in its database, there is the concern of actually building it when on side. While timber and stone is likely available, hopefully, engineers expressed a concern that a dedicated building effort will be slowed down by a lack of prefabricated parts, like scaffolding, beams, etcetera, slowing down the colony in a most critical phase.
For this reason they just occupied the workshops for two months, tirelessly reworking a large part of the material stockpile to prefabricated building blocks which can be easily assembled on site. They seem satisfied by that project and even managed to optimize some of the building parts in the Genesis Library to use less material overall and ultimately cost less labour and material.
First three buildings of the colony will be free
Buildings cost less actionsProject Phoenix, started before the twilight year, seems more important than ever now. While many expressed concerns over compiling a database of DNA amongst the colonists and agents, now most people willingly participate in the Phoenix program, rooting out some congenital diseases before they even could be passed on by eliminating the chance of two carriers of meeting up and procreating. While it is a form of eugenics, it will likely reduce the likelihood of syndromes carried by parents to pass on to their children and manifest.
What becomes clear, however, as the database comes together, is that there are enough people to combat most egregious inbreeding that this bottleneck created by the new colony will lead to some genetic drift. To combat this would require more “genetic material” to be caught “in the wild”, although the fact that most populations will likely die before they can be recruited or extracted by the Initiative.
Genetic research however, has been bolstered by the newly acquired database and samples provided by the agents, civilians, engineers and researchers, with theoretical and very narrowly tissue replication for transplantation done on mice and other lab animals. So far they seem to work more or less, which is a promising field of tissue engineering, slated for later, on-colony research.
Project Phoenix advanced
Civilian Extraction now available to be targetedAnother sore sport for agents and engineers was the fact that some of them began to suffer radiation or chemical sickness while out on the field, a danger that will be only increased in this post-apocalyptic environment. For this reason, an initiative of the Russian weapon designers and a few, more inclined field agents and desert walkers have designed several parts of equipment, hardened against exposure of doomsday conditions and harsh environments. The desert walkers were especially a help in this regard as their experience could be drawn upon for this Project.
While modifications on weapons were only minimal (mostly proofing them with a new coat of lacquer to harden them against corrosion), the biggest changes were in the way field rations are prepared and ingested, as well as the protective suits for soldiers and field agents. The result is the BC-29 “Naja” armour, combining a plate carrier with a tightly fitted jumpsuit with a cloth layer, with a lead lamellar layer and finally a plastic polymer, seamlessly fitting with a gas mask and leather helmet. Internal oxygen supply rated for four hours, refillable. The gas mask also features a slot to suck liquids out of a sealed container, used to ingest edibles and water on the field.
While the thing is heavy and uncomfortable, the soldiers are happy to wear it when they go out on scouting missions to see how the world is doing. The concept seems to work fine, even though they complain the astronaut food like rations taste terrible.
These suits, fabrication techniques and the hardened equipment can be distributed to survivor groups deemed fitting for survival to heighten their chances.
The food producing parts of this project have been transferred to Project Fooddrive.
Naja armour obtained!Project Fooddrive is an ambitious project to condense a huge part of human life into the limited space available for a new colony and the outpost on the Antarctic – agriculture.
For this part they have set up several concepts of hydroponics, aquacultures and a combination of these two to produce cheap and nourishing staple foods, especially grains and other high calorie crops, such as potatoes, legumes, algae and seaweed, as well insects and crustaceans.
Beyond that, they also compiled a “library” of crops and plants to be carried over to the new world to set up initial enclosed environments for food known safe for consumption, due to the unlikely fact that many of the plant life is compatible to Humanity, if there is any.
For that purpose, cuttings and seeds are preserved in a super cooled box, sampling enough plants to keep a small population alive which can be cultivated for a larger population later on. It's rated to keep the samples alive and able to be “defrosted” for at least a decade.
It will take some time to find the optimal “gardens” to function on a small scale to sustain larger populations, but the first forays into this project seem promising, although the “NutriBar” made out of shredded kelp and pulped roasted cricket doesn't seem to find much resonance with the Initiative population.
Project Fooddrive advancedThe ashes slowly settle, but the scars of war cover the land. Ash and soot are common weather conditions now, leaving the Earth in the dark for most of the time. Food is at a premium for the survivors and the population rapidly declined to billions of people to mere ten thousands.
However, navigation is possible again, even though many places are showing ambient, lethal radiation. Luckily the Naja suits block off the worst, but agents feel uncomfortable to linger on for long in non-hardened outposts.
OpportunitiesScavenge military basesWhile most equipment will be likely destroyed, acquiring a surplus of weaponry will help the military strength of the new colony, acquiring personal weaponry not yet in the arsenal of the Initiative.
There is a risk that scavengers or warlords will fight over the material or that agents simply find nothing.
Rescue Civilians
Ragged survivor groups dot the globe, barely scraping by through scavenging, subsistence farming or other means, trying to survive as long as they can. Rescuing them will boost our civilian numbers.
Rescue Civilians (targeted)Another rescue effort, but on a smaller scale and with rigorous DNA and medical tests and quarantine for any rescued civilians. If they are genetically beneficial for the colony, they will be taken in. Otherwise they will be discarded and released or otherwise disposed of.
Projects
Project Phoenix 35% done
Project Fooddrive 40% 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
Naja Armor
Light Support Weaponry
Tiny Food Stockpile
Eisbär Half track squadron
Delivery Capacity
60% full
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