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Post by elizar on Jun 10, 2009 9:30:04 GMT -5
"I doubt any would be up in the space station." Christine huffed weakly. "Surviving up there in over twenty years is a far-fetched dream."
"Pretty much." Helen said. "At least we don't have to deal with AIDS anymore, though at a terrible cost." She sighed. The news had spread fast that shortly after the blow-up, Africa's numbers had dwindled dramatically. And with no drugs to help fight the disease, most if not all infected had succumbed to it.
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 10, 2009 17:04:26 GMT -5
"Africa is almost an empty continent now." Lionel remarked. "But the Chinese and east Indians won't leave it alone for long."
"I wouldn't think so, unless they came up with some sort of suspended-animation deal." Amara shrugged.
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Post by elizar on Jun 10, 2009 17:38:55 GMT -5
"I'm tempted to say 'let them'." Helen said. "They do have the largest human population of all other countries, mostly because they could sustain it and weren't as effected as us because of the disaster. There's going to be a second colonization era of Africa, I wouldn't be surprised if the borders would be redrawn, but not because to give a mountain to another, but because of fertile lands."
"Daniel said that there was pretty much no chance of that." Christine said. "That it was still just a distant dream before the blowup. And even so, if they were in suspended animation, they wouldn't be able to return back to earth. I've heard enough horror stories about what can happen if you stop exercising while in space."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 10, 2009 20:44:20 GMT -5
"I just hope they had a quick death." Amara shuddered. "Even then, nasty way to go."
"I just hope they manage it wisely." Lionel sighed.
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Post by elizar on Jun 10, 2009 20:54:07 GMT -5
"Yeah." Christine said. "I would rather think that someone had the mind to pick them up. Wouldn't matter if it were Russian or US citizens."
"I think that carverse needs to go in and be meddlesome." Helen said as she opened the first apartment and went in. "All to avoid any border wars brewing."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 11, 2009 21:12:45 GMT -5
"Russia could have done it. They were far away and still had intact facilities, at least for a few more shots." Amara said.
Lionel chuckled dryly. "If the United Nations couldn't do it in sixty years there, good luck with that."
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Post by elizar on Jun 11, 2009 21:23:26 GMT -5
Christine wondered for a moment. "Just how good of a PR do you think if a mission would be made to get ISS back?"
Helen sighed. "Yeah, history teaches us that it doesn't work all the way." She said as tossing few things in black trash bag. "But no one knows if it had been worse or better without the meddling."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 11, 2009 21:29:49 GMT -5
"They're better off if NOBODY meddles, but with the resource situation the way it is, that's off in dreamland." Lionel sighed. "The east Indians, at least, have a trading history with the area."
"It would be logistics hell, but might save some development work if it could be recovered." Amara said. "Wouldn't be surprised if they were already thinking about it."
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Post by elizar on Jun 11, 2009 21:40:08 GMT -5
"And no one has a real claim to the lands." Helen said. "It's going to be like the gold rush in Yukon. And blood diamonds will be again bought and sold."
"Well, nothing real is going on at the moment as far as I know." Christine said. "No one of the bloodline that can do the shifts is in training."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 12, 2009 15:49:07 GMT -5
<< Christine in two places? LOL >>>
"It'll be a mess for sure." Lionel frowned. "God help anyone trying to play the referee in that mess."
"I wonder how many offspring Elena has." Amara speculated. "There's her son, of course, and two more with the nomad chief that she told us about. Dunno what THEIR plans are."
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Post by elizar on Jun 12, 2009 16:08:23 GMT -5
((Whoops.))
"People will be lining up for that." Helen said. "Though if they would be qualified enough for it, I doubt it."
"And then we have to factor in that in Ice Age, one year here equal three there." Christine said and sighed. "With someone like her, you start to think she has some political agenda with being with him. The reputation of her family and such, coming from royalty, where stories of such unions are common among them."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 12, 2009 20:31:38 GMT -5
"Everyone wants to be the peacekeeper." Lionel rolled his eyes. "They're welcome to it, but leave me out of it."
"Elena thinks LONG term, so far as I know." Amara said. "Multi-generations, since she's as close to immortal as counts to us. What she's working on may take centuries to take on a shape that makes sense to the rest of us. But if I had an educated guess, she's building the foundations of a political and trade nexus. I wouldn't be surprised to see even more worlds come into it eventually."
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Post by elizar on Jun 12, 2009 20:38:36 GMT -5
"Likewise." Helen said and headed out of the room. "And we're going to see something happen there in our lifetime. You can't have such huge tracts of land without someone noticing."
"Well, the humans were able to play the refugee card well." Christine said. "But if we're going to involve more worlds, it should be done in a very careful way. I'm frankly surprised at how easy we were to open up to the humans."
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Post by Evangeline on Jun 12, 2009 21:15:51 GMT -5
"Can't blame'em." Amara shrugged. "Now we're just about wedded at the hip in many areas. I think it'll take shape in the form of a meeting-center or gateway of sorts, question is, where?"
"All Monty Python jokes aside, that area won't lie fallow for long." Lionel concurred.
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Post by elizar on Jun 12, 2009 21:34:16 GMT -5
"We can't have it human-side." Christine said. "Because of the potential hot-headedness. It would be better here, in more neutral zone. As of where exactly, it would depend on what kind of visitors we could get."
"I hope that they can stay out of each other way for a while." Helen said. "Because once the signs begin to show, it's going to be too late. And I won't find a disease or something to make the comparison with, there's too many of those around."
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