Bassoe
Well-known member
Scenario: Tomorrow, expansion of a shaft at Olympia Dam breaks through the ceiling of an artificial structure. Originally a salt dome cavern, it had been converted into an arcology which between a fission reactor as a power source, mining infrastructure to acquire and enrich uranium ore as fuel and empty space to put the reactor’s waste, manufacturing infrastructure suitable for producing spare parts for all equipment and hydroponic and aquaponic farms for food and oxygen was entirely self-sustaining. Based off the rate at which the reactor produced waste and the amount of waste present in tapped-out veins of ore, the arcology had apparently been inhabited for several thousand years. When discovered there were around five hundred inhabitants, speaking a language with no known commonalities aside from their word for themselves, Mimi, which if eventually translated, would reveal them to have been organized as a cargo cult theocracy based around maintaining their life-support equipment without understanding their operating principles and believing themselves to be the only life in the world. Later excavation to find exit tunnels would reveal that they were apparently deliberately collapsed from the inside immediately following completion of the arcology's construction.