What If? You wake up in the Oligocene

Sailor.X

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In this scenario you wake up one morning not in your bedroom. You wake up in another house. As you walk around inside you see that the house is a 2 Bedroom on Bathroom style of home. Your fridge, Freezer and Cupboard are fully stocked with food. You have tons of cleaning supplies and toiletries. You have all of your firearms (if you own any) and plenty of ammo. If you are not a gun owner an AR-10, an AR-15 and a Mossberg 590 has been provided for you. As you go outside you can see that your new home is on 5 acres of land surrounded by a 20ft tall double fence. With the outer fence being heavily electrified. You see you have a work shed complete with Machine Tools, Welding equipment and raw materials. and you have 2 acres of already planted crops that will be ready to harvest in 2 months time. You have both solar and wind power plants for your electrical needs. And a Generac Propane Generator for emergency situations.

What you also see is that the area around you is not from your time period. You can see animals that clearly have been extinct for 30 Million Years. Meaning you are in the distant past. You also notice you are not alone. You now have a very friendly Dog and a very Friendly Cat that follow you around. They are your new pets. As you walk around the property you see your new personal vehicle.

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An MRAP Caiman.

You then hear a voice in the sky. It is the ROB. He tells you that he has selected you to spend 10 years in the Oligocene for his amusement. For the first 5 years all of your food, Fuel and other supplies will not deplenish. But after 5 years your supplies will state to deplete with use. During this time you must make your compound able to survive the next 5 year period. The ROB has place various supply drops throughout the greater area you live in. You will have to seek out these supplies if you want to keep your compound fully stocked. Each supply drop is 20 to 30 miles away from you compound. The ROB not being a complete dick has provided a gravel road system for you to get to these supply drop areas. But those areas will have wildlife around them. So expect predators that my see you as prey. If you can survive the full 10 years the ROB will make you insanely wealthy by Galactic Standards and give you your own planet to rule. If you fail well you will be Purina Entelodont Chow. So how well do you think you will do? Can you survive the full 10 years in the Oligocene?

Special Note: You are in North America in the what will become the State of South Carolina. The area you are in is Woodland Plains 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. You will not age during your time in the past and your two pets are immortal and won't die. The ROB has provided food for them that is in the compound and the supply drops. The Gate to your compound is heavily reenforce and can blunt the charge of a heard of Elephants if it had to.
 
In this scenario you wake up one morning not in your bedroom. You wake up in another house. As you walk around inside you see that the house is a 2 Bedroom on Bathroom style of home. Your fridge, Freezer and Cupboard are fully stocked with food. You have tons of cleaning supplies and toiletries. You have all of your firearms (if you own any) and plenty of ammo. If you are not a gun owner an AR-10, an AR-15 and a Mossberg 590 has been provided for you. As you go outside you can see that your new home is on 5 acres of land surrounded by a 20ft tall double fence. With the outer fence being heavily electrified. You see you have a work shed complete with Machine Tools, Welding equipment and raw materials. and you have 2 acres of already planted crops that will be ready to harvest in 2 months time. You have both solar and wind power plants for your electrical needs. And a Generac Propane Generator for emergency situations.

What you also see is that the area around you is not from your time period. You can see animals that clearly have been extinct for 30 Million Years. Meaning you are in the distant past. You also notice you are not alone. You now have a very friendly Dog and a very Friendly Cat that follow you around. They are your new pets. As you walk around the property you see your new personal vehicle.

1280px-Summit_County_Sheriff_SWAT_MRAP_-_15909118972.jpg


An MRAP Caiman.

You then hear a voice in the sky. It is the ROB. He tells you that he has selected you to spend 10 years in the Oligocene for his amusement. For the first 5 years all of your food, Fuel and other supplies will not deplenish. But after 5 years your supplies will state to deplete with use. During this time you must make your compound able to survive the next 5 year period. The ROB has place various supply drops throughout the greater area you live in. You will have to seek out these supplies if you want to keep your compound fully stocked. Each supply drop is 20 to 30 miles away from you compound. The ROB not being a complete dick has provided a gravel road system for you to get to these supply drop areas. But those areas will have wildlife around them. So expect predators that my see you as prey. If you can survive the full 10 years the ROB will make you insanely wealthy by Galactic Standards and give you your own planet to rule. If you fail well you will be Purina Entelodont Chow. So how well do you think you will do? Can you survive the full 10 years in the Oligocene?

Special Note: You are in North America in the what will become the State of South Carolina. The area you are in is Woodland Plains 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. You will not age during your time in the past and your two pets are immortal and won't die. The ROB has provided food for them that is in the compound and the supply drops. The Gate to your compound is heavily reenforce and can blunt the charge of a heard of Elephants if it had to.
I'd likley be fucked. im chubby and have little survival experience .
 
In 5 years if imagine I could do it. The load out is pretty damn solid and 6 years. To get in shape and sharpen the skills i have while learning what I don't. Is our planetary prize inhabited by sapient beings?
 
In 5 years if imagine I could do it. The load out is pretty damn solid and 6 years. To get in shape and sharpen the skills i have while learning what I don't. Is our planetary prize inhabited by sapient beings?
Yes it is inhabited by Sapient beings that look like Vulcans and Andorians. They are peaceful.
 
Isn't there the problem that all those millions of years, oxygen was in much larger amounts, I think you'll not just have to deal with giant insects but potentially breathing problems
 
Yes it is inhabited by Sapient beings that look like Vulcans and Andorians. They are peaceful.

First, you fire up the welder and improvise some steel body armor, especially for the back and neck, as big cats can jump right over any fence and will come at you that way out of curiosity, voltage or not. You get on the roof and kill any predators lurking around by shooting them through the fence. If it's chain link you're pretty much fucked as a similodon or any other predator from the day would rip through it like paper. It will have to be patrolled, beefed up with logs and repaired often. If you plow the area between the fences you'll see tracks of anything that got through.

Get the truck and your saw, and cut down trees that block your field of fire around the compound. You want it clear as far as possible. Drag the trunks behind the fence, set up a sawmill and mill out enough 4X4 lumber to build a ranger-style tower from which to kill predators. Make the building strong with shudders because there were really big birds back then.

Once you get it all knocked back and the dog trained to alert you, its time to go visit the Vulcanoids. Depending on their level of tech you give them gifts, learn their language and try to cut a T'Pol out of the heard, because, why not? You've got nothing else to look forward to so the only ultimate goal possible in that position would be to plot against ROB and see if there was any potential. If not, move on to the bluies.
 
Isn't there the problem that all those millions of years, oxygen was in much larger amounts, I think you'll not just have to deal with giant insects but potentially breathing problems
Carl it is the Oligocene not the Carboniferous Period. You are literally confusing. 30 Million years with 359 Million years.

First, you fire up the welder and improvise some steel body armor, especially for the back and neck, as big cats can jump right over any fence and will come at you that way out of curiosity, voltage or not. You get on the roof and kill any predators lurking around by shooting them through the fence. If it's chain link you're pretty much fucked as a similodon or any other predator from the day would rip through it like paper. It will have to be patrolled, beefed up with logs and repaired often. If you plow the area between the fences you'll see tracks of anything that got through.

Get the truck and your saw, and cut down trees that block your field of fire around the compound. You want it clear as far as possible. Drag the trunks behind the fence, set up a sawmill and mill out enough 4X4 lumber to build a ranger-style tower from which to kill predators. Make the building strong with shudders because there were really big birds back then.

Once you get it all knocked back and the dog trained to alert you, its time to go visit the Vulcanoids. Depending on their level of tech you give them gifts, learn their language and try to cut a T'Pol out of the heard, because, why not? You've got nothing else to look forward to so the only ultimate goal possible in that position would be to plot against ROB and see if there was any potential. If not, move on to the bluies.
The fence is 20ft tall and double fence. Meaning you have the High Voltage fence on the outside and the normal fence on the inside. Ain't nothing jumping over it or biting through it. And the only cats around are Dinofelis. A smaller sabertooth cat. The big Predators of the era are Hyenadon Horatus. The Entelodonts and a few land crocodiles. But everything elses is correct.
 
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Unfortunately no. The ROB does not want any Orions near that planet because of their tendencies. And he has other uses for the Trills on other worlds.
Ah well I guess we can import the hot aliens if we want to since we're absurdly rich by galactic standards and thus presumably have access to a large fleet of FTL capable ships and have the means to persuade people to move willingly to our planet
 
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