2046 Summer
Opportunity ResultsDestroying the trust between the UK and the US was surprisingly easy. Their mutual distrust was only mitigated by Initiative actions and apparently the invasion of Canada was mighty unpopular by the public of the UK and their sovereign, seeing them still as part of the Commonwealth.
This connection was amplified by Initiative agents in conjunction with the Colonel, who worked closely together with cells of the Initiative posing as independent Canadian resistance groups or foreign volunteers. Gradually over the summer, London and Washington drifted away from each other and returned to a state of tacit belligerence to each other, again contesting the waters of the Shetland Islands to control underwater oil and coal deposits.
This led to a propagation of Initiative cells in the USA again and partially in Great Britain too. Beyond the news, the renewed intelligence reports paint a clear picture. Even these countries are slowly unravelling, with famines, flooding and acidic rain steadily depopulating urban centres and destroying arable land and making them foetid, acrid wastelands. Food riots, refugee caravans and warlords plague the legitimate governments.
This phenomenon applies to pretty much the whole world. Societal collapse is imminent and soon opportunities targeting countries will dry up. Project Endgame, however, still is in effect, mostly by directly taking over power generating facilities and syphoning energy and storing them in great accumulators, which are shipped to the Antarctic.
This makes the Initiative finally enter the public consciousness, although our true motives are still unclear and affected power production is primarily in Africa, south Asia and China. Many presume we are only more organised raiders or a criminal syndicate.
Rescuing Bourbon has been proven a fluke. As Initiative agents and some hired warlord mercenaries assault the prison (the warlord interested in making it a fort and offered such as payment) government forces were found to be in the middle of executions, dispatching prisoners of war and civilian detainees as there wasn't enough food around for them. Under the executed people was, as found out later as the assault successfully secured the prison.
While the initial goal was not met, a number of starving civilians have been extracted to the Antarctic. Farmers, factory workers and clerks, mostly, they lack specific education beneficial for the Initiative, but the added genetic diversity for the colony is deemed useful, as well as a labour force for later use.
Small Civilian Team obtained!Project Exodus steadily chugged along in summer, with first test reactors working already, although still in a ramshackle way. Used for the reaction inside is a fertile reactor made of Thorium and agitated Plutonium, both of which are plenty at hand. Some design issues arise in shielding radiation and making it lightweight as possible, as the whole thing has to be transportable and still adequately shielded to not cause radiation sickness to its attendants. However, researchers are optimistic that these are the last teething issues and that the generator soon will be fully operable.
As a bonus, applications of a more crude and stationary version of the Exodus Generator help to maintain the bridge time longer, adding 20 seconds to the bridge time and thus increasing the capacity of Project Endgame.
Project Exodus advancedProject Cargo is nearly finished, with the last hurdles finally solved. The “Eisbär” half track has been concepted, tried, tested extensively and even crash proofed and is now integrated fully into the Genesis Library as well. It is a rugged, dependable, if somewhat fuel inefficient and slow cargo tug with an open motor and room for four passengers. It can move eight tons of material and speed up to 100 km/h on road and 70 km/h off road. It handles like a brick and can crash through a metal wall if need be.
The last legs is just creating a fleet of these things and finish the tunnels, but for all intents and purposes, the project is done.
Project Cargo advanced
Eisbär half track integrated into Genesis Library.News +++Global Syndicate takes over power plants!+++
+++Chaos on earth! End of humanity?+++
+++Internet shutting down between continents+++
+++Who even reads this anymore+++
+++I'm just so thirsty+++
+++I only got these hardtack rations and half of them are infested by bugs+++
+++The bad part is they taste exactly like the hardtack+++
+++You don't even get sick+++
+++So I just eat it in the dark+++OpportunitiesRescue CiviliansThis is a pretty straightforward proposal. Host global rescue teams and vet out useful civilians for the Initiative and the eventual colony.
Kidnap Indian botanistsIndia still tries to work out rice plants that work in the oversaturated wastelands that have become Punjab and make some middling breakthroughs there. However, the project itself is considered a hopeless gesture of a hopeless, rapidly failing nation. Serving the Initiative would put their talents to better use.
Seize Hoover DamA more overt move, but a critical one. Hoover Dam is a massive hydro-electrical power plant that is still could be used to power Project Endgame when the time comes. Seizing it from the SoCal warlord Jeremy Compton will be a hard undertaking, especially when the US Government decides they want the Dam back too.
Projects
Project Cargo 90% done
Project Exodus 75% done
Bridge time
5 minutes 10 seconds
Initiative Status
Small Military Force (experienced)
General Boleslawich
Small Weapon Design Department
Small Programming Department
Small Physics Department
Engineering Team
Small Civilian Team
Basic Lab Equipment
“Honey Bee” Prototype
AVH-23s,M16s,MP5s
Light Support Weaponry
Small Material Stockpile
Delivery Capacity
80% full
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