Sixth | Audio

[strategic_guile]

[His voice is calm as he poses this question. It's a voice that wants to encourage discussion but not necessarily a heated debate.]

What is it that the United Earth wants from the Initiative that keeps us alive? That last curbstomping we received doesn't leave much room for debate about our chances.

Is it the tech? Are we a propaganda tool? An experiment?

Throw some ideas out there.

[And then the feed ends.]


[[OOC: Threadjumping and jacking are encouraged in this post! Blaine wants allllll the ideas.]]

Comments

[strategic_guile]

I arrived during a round of bombs and we ended up in some caves. I don't know if that was the first bombing or not.

[trustycrowbar]

That's the one, yeah.

[He stares at the floor between them, then looks at Blaine again.]

I'd been here for a few months before that, long enough to realize that we didn't have the advantage of mobility like the Resistance did. We were effectively stuck here, and a single nuke could rid the world of every last one of us if they were annoyed enough to push the button.

[strategic_guile]

Well, aren't I lucky to be one of the first. [A bit dryly said.]

Even if we could move all the equipment and weaponry, leaving the regular civilian population here wouldn't be for their benefit. Not anymore. We need to build more underground, but this is a damn island. How stable is it really? I don't know enough about geology to advocate for going totally underground. Not when it could all be buried with one well placed strike. We could do that at home unless it was hundreds of feet below ground. Who knows how far they can penetrate with surveillance now.

[trustycrowbar]

It's an island, but it's a large island. And as far as I'm concerned if they can build a damn tunnel from here to France, or whatever the hell France is now, then we can build a bunker deep enough to hide.

[strategic_guile]

The tube to France isn't expected to survive bombs. Besides, I'm not saying we shouldn't build them if they aren't going to be death traps.