* for some reason he can’t go get the manual himself (needs to be at an important event or something)
* Karl doesn’t join bc he can’t run if things go south, but he does give her a list of useful UNIX commands and a run-down of how to get one of these computers started
* They talk about Jack and why they would help him
* they also need to come up with the plan that Jack will get Annie and leave the others down there to continue their work
* they want Jack and Annie to find a way to mess with the power supply while they work on the inside to influence ppl so that a power outage will actually end up getting the city opened
* maybe Jack will have a reason to only accept one person like still figuring out a reliable food source
* they get caught and run/gtfo, leaving the computer at the front entrance
* there will have to be another news segment, something like this:
* "In a bizarre turn of events, members of a suspected terrorist group have returned the stolen computer to xyz corp. It had been stolen from their headquarters four days prior..."
* They coordinate to get Annie out of the city asap
* The others stay behind to continue their work on getting the officials to allow opening the air locks
* looks good but missing any kind of computer equipment (looted after or removed before the apocalypse)
* has an optical telescope and a dish
* when talking about the lack of computers, the nomad remembers that he saw a lot of computer stuff in Rogue Tides
* *... missing things (not in order):*
* *power plant shenanigans*
* *secret organization has to do things like putting up banners in high-profile locations and/or distribute a manifesto*
* *power has to go out for a while - or completely until someone fixes the power plant (could be that something breaks while they start up the plant again)*
* *IDEA: "The power will be going out on <date> for critical maintenance that you have neglected to do for a century. Shame on you for sticking your heads in the sand instead of facing the problems of the outside world."*
* *Originally I was thinking they might move to a factory hall or hangar or maybe even one of the lower levels of a sky scraper but it might be more realistic that they just move into the observatory as it’s where they work on stuff*
* *Annie has never been on a boat so they fix one up and hop over to Rogue Tides*
* *encounter the electronics tinkerer*
* *problematic encounter with one of the groups/tribes/whatever*
* *the members have gone nuts and are religious fanatics*
* *They see Jack’s Neotek Dynamics company clothes and start treating him as a god*
* they come up with the plan that Annie should escape the city since she has the contact with Jack anyway so that they can gather some intelligence on what’s going on outside
* Annie discovers the hydro power plant - they end up messing with the power supply of the dome to force officials to stop the isolation
* Neotek Dynamics (Jack, Michelle)
* mission to get into contact with moon base to check in on them
* turns out the moon base is having a real bad time and everyone is dying
* There used to be many ppl but at the start of the story just a few are left
* the rest died of some disease caused by a dangerous pathogen
* Annie, in her search for an alternative to whatever the underground city has as "coffee", obtains some drug from the electronics tinkerer. She proceeds to get high as the sky and gets herself into a dangerous situation before the others catch on to what’s happening. Jack will end up more or less forcing her back to the base and sit there watching her so she doesn’t do anything stupid.
* Emily wakes up. A relative is waiting in her room, silently crying. Emily, catching on to what’s going on (and having experienced the bad news of the past how ever many weeks, months, or years), asks who died this time. Some other person, Idk. That leaves 5 alive ppl in the moon base.
* Lena dies sitting against a boulder next to the grave of her spouse. Emily sits there with her, periodically exchanging oxygen canisters until she dies. They talk over the radio. Lena tells her that she was ultimately right to use what Tony had left behind but it is too late for her now. After she dies, Emily returns to the base and lies down on the floor in a central room looking out though the ceiling for who knows how long (not eating or drinking for like 6h or so).
* Something should happen that gets her to get up and realize how incredibly hungry she is - possibly an incoming call / terminal beep from Earth
* Emily is alone, preparing for her descent to Earth. As part of the preparations, she releases the remaining lab mice into the biosphere module (they came from there originally).
