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[Juxta]

[UPDATE] The Scarlett Kite 20th February 2006

[ALISDAIRPARK]

sounds more and more like a nuclear bomb, big crater, houses destroyed scorched earth/ rocks "like the air burned on them"...

mushrooms anyone?

[Ramazel]

[noodrez]

At a guess, I would say that the area just gradually drained of people. Their capital had been destroyed obviously, so I suspect that the people just drifted in towards perplex city until the area was abandoned. From the sounds of things, relief aid and the like doesnt seem as likely there so after being defeated, the perplexians probably didnt help with rebuilding.

[Scott]

scorched earth is quite local, it's true. though how local we are talking about is another matter. a whole thriving metropolis is gone, so like that bomb had to be pretty huge. the outlying areas would have been fFarms and things supporting the city. no city, no mouths to fFeed, no fFarms. even those only lightly affected by the actual bomb would have been devastated by the backlash. also, had scarlett driven any other direction, she might see more life in other regions. unless, of course, perplex used the same kind of weapon against all its enemies, and now noone lives, anywhere at all.

man this is dark. no wonder they don't like to talk about it.

fFor perspective, i draw up a little map showing 1600 miles fFrom london to moscow.

[Ramazel]

Well, that map is what I'm talking about. It's a huge territory. On earth, you'd have smaller towns in that area, you'd have villages. Even if everything is centred around one town in PerplexCity world, in 268 years a new town could have developed at the periphery of the destroyed area. Relief aid isn't everything, people managed to get back to their feet after catastrophes long before relief aid existed (I'm not saying it was easy, mind).

For comparison, imagine London being destroyed and the area around it scorched. Do you really believe that everybody else would migrate out of Britain, that is unless they had no other choice? People tend to stay where they live if they can, and plod on. And my guess is their first choice wouldn't be to join their enemy, the one responsible for their plight!

How I wish I could read the Foreign Affairs subject in the Sentinel! Is there anyone we can ask about the current political situation in their world? For that matter, I'd also love to know more about the power structure in PerplexCity...

[Juxta]

I think that the reference to the black "scorch" marks can pretty much be only one thing...the remains of the inhabitants who were caught in the blast/fallout/area-of-effect of whatever the Perplexians used to erm, "neutralise" Anjsbourg. From the pie-crust description, it had an explosive point of impact or explosion...and then whatever it expelled went a *long* way, instantaneously, and left just the charred vestiges of the poor sods in it's way. Dark, very dark...(almost the holy grail of military ordinance - destroy your foe, but leave the buildings intact - clearly this isn't *quite* that, um, "successful", but it seems to have done a reasonable job of winning the war)


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[locqust]

Im just wondering if it was something as messy as a H-bomb or A-bomb. Considering weve been told that the Perplexians have backtracked in their technology slightly we could be looking at something like a particle cannon, fired right in the heart of Anjsbourg then used to kill off the surrounding villages.

But yeah def dark, no wonder there were loads of protests about the war gallery at the museum. I shudder to think what there was, Ive seen a few exhibits from WW2 holocaust camps and hiroshima and that was pretty sick.

[Guin]

could it be cube related as there has been [Spec] about weapons !

[toongoon]

[spec]

[Mikeyj]

Assuming Granier's diary gives us the planning stages of these events, the weapon was tested in cold blood on innocents and then genocide was committed. Which is more than dark.

But to follow up on Granier's diary, we need to prod Violet, although she might need a replacement for Cymbalisty, she was having trouble on her own wasn't she? Also not sure whether anyone's mentioned the contents of Granier's diary to Scarlett, might give her a useful point of view on the blasted waste-scape. Will do so if there's no objections...

...although saying things like that always asks for trouble!

Incidentally, not heard from TP in a while...wonder what he/she'll make of having to hold hands with us to form the human chain (if indeed we are; but it suggests that some tasks will require inter-team collaboration).

[jojojojo]

EDIT: I was rambling, talking complete and utter bull. I apologise.

*jojojojo decides to research better in future.

[kizandtango]

everyone is speculating as to HOW it was bombed/burnt etc, but does anyone have any idea WHY this area was attacked? what was there previously? We really do need some background info on this war. Do we have a way to contact alains uncle? ask him for as much info on the war as possible?

just wonderin!

[European Chris]

Not that much useful info sadly, it's a bit of a taboo on PPC so I doubt we will have much success generating info ourselves.

Scott does a great job on the Wiki though with what we do have-well worth a read.

http://wiki.incognitus.net/ppc/index.php/War

[noodrez]

A bit of speculation from Garniers diary is that they were siding with Viendenbourg against perplex city in the war. If that was the case, then that is probably why they were attacked. It seems that the main grievance was against viendenbourg (again from the wording of the Garnier diaries), and anjsbourg merely chose the wrong side.