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<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title> No U Don't Have Train. </title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="html_resources/style.css"></head><body><a href="index.html"><button class="back"><</button></a>
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<h1> No U Don't Have Train. </h1>
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<span class="quote speech">Why wouldn't they work outside? It's
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not like they're magically gonna come off the rails once they leave
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the dome.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">All of your trains are outfitted with fail-safe
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emergency brakes. On power loss, you have about 15 seconds before they
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are applied and the train comes to an abrupt, unscheduled halt.
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You can't even tow these things without power.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">I thought you said the tracks were in decent
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shape? Why would the <span class="comment">contacts? sliders?</span>
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come off the power rail for that long?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">A) I didn't, I said they are in
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<i>surprisingly</i> decent shape after being exposed to the elements
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for a century without any maintenance. B) That power rail isn't
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gonna be of any use because it doesn't deliver any power.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">What do you mean? Why not?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Where does the rail get its power from?</span>
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<span class="quote speech">The power grid.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Not quite, but close enough. What do we not
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have outside?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Of course there is a power grid outside.
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It's what powered the old world just as ours powers the city.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">There used to be one, that much is correct,
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but it hasn't been used or maintained in a century. Even if you did
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somehow manage to get part of it working, I still wouldn't trust it.
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And where would you wanna get the electricity to run it from?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">From a substation. We fix up one of those and
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use it to power the grid.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Great, now you have a local grid attached to
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the high voltage grid. And what do you wanna power that with?</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">What? The substations make the power.
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It's where all the power in the city comes from: Two substations
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– one in the wall next to this airlock and the other one is by
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the other airlock.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">There is a third one deep below Central
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Square. These are indeed where the electricity in the city comes from
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but they don't make it. They get it from a power plant outside,
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a bit northeast of here.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">The dome powered by the outside world?
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People be believing strange things these days...</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">I don't have to believe. I was there when
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the city was built and, more recently, I helped replace a failing
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generator at said power plant. You might have noticed the power
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outage.</span><br />
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<span class="quote speech">Uhuh, sure buddy. Since you've been doing
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nothing but spewing nonsense all this time, I'm just gonna have one
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of our guys drive a train up there and we'll see what happens.</span>
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<span class="quote speech">I'll get some popcorn; watching this is
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gonna be fun. Wouldn't be the first time a train got stuck in these
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tunnels...</span>
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</p>
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