Michelle asks: And you really expect to find
- machines here that aren't beyond repair?
+ machines here that can be salvaged?
The four are walking into a valley in a large forested area.
Jack replies: Right now, I'm not even
sure this is the place – everything looks so different – but,
if it is, we'll have plenty to choose from and a bunch more for
spare parts.
- James gestures to the side and says:
+ James gestures to the side, saying:
Look, over there.
He points out a group of very rusty and completely overgrown machines.
Annie wonders: How did they get inbetween
the trees?
- Jack says: They didn't. This wasn't
- a forest back then.
- They make their way over to them.
+ Jack says: They didn't. The machines
+ came first, the trees grew after. This wasn't a forest
+ back then.
+ They make their way over to take a closer look.
Jack says: Looks like these were already
out of order before they were abandoned.
- He turns to Annie and James, patting the side of one of the machines.
-
+ He turns to Annie and James:
This is an excavator. We're looking for
a big one like this, maybe a bit smaller, but not as small as that one
- over there.
- He points to a small excavator that has a tree growing through
- its cab.
- Do these excavators where the cab is the biggest
- part have a specific name?
- James asks: Why not just use this one then?
+ over there – and preferably without trees growing out of
+ it...
+ He points to a small excavator that sits askew on a thick tree trunk
+ that had grown thrugh the floor and out the side.
+ Do these tiny excavators with large glass cabs
+ have a specific name?
+ James asks: Why not just use this one?
What's wrong with it?
- This thing's just done for. Looks like
- it was used as a spare parts donor. Tracks? Treads?
- are missing, hydraulics for the bucket as well, and it looks
- like the inside of the cab got completely dismantled.
+ This thing's just done for. Apart from it
+ being a pile of rust, it's missing its tracks
+ treads?, the hydraulics for moving the bucket, and it looks like
+ the inside of the cab got completely dismantled.
They take a quick look at the other machines around them. There is the
other, much smaller excavator, a Kipper?,
a Wie heißt diese Maschine mit
Förderband, die Material sortiert?, and two
- Radlader? Baccos?. All of them are missing
- significant parts.
+ Radlader? Baccos?. All of them are rusted
+ beyond repair and missing integral parts.
A bit further down the valley, they approach a much larger collection of
@@ -55,9 +56,10 @@
So these machines dug out the dome?
Well... no. That was mostly done using
- explosives, the machines were there to collect the rubble and load it
- onto trains. But they also played a big part in construction after
- the digging was done.
+ explosives, conveyor belts, and trains. They used
+ Radlader? Baccos? to load stuff onto the conveyors but most of
+ the machines here were used in construction after the digging was
+ done.
research that needs to be done: @@ -65,5 +67,36 @@ When did they get the ability to use a jackhammer attachment? When did the cable-driven ones go out of fashion?
++ missing section +
+
+ Annie calls the others over to one of the buildings.
+ Look what I found...
+ Michelle arrives before Jack and she laughs. He arrives a moment
+ later and peeks inside. There sits a
+ cable shovel?, partially covered in rubble from the caved-in
+ roof – rusty but surprisingly intact.
+ Jack says: That's ... uhhh ... kind of
+ a historical artifact.
+
+
+ missing section +
+
+
+ Things that need research: Did early hydraulic excavators have starter
+ engines (what were they called again?) or was that a thing of the past
+ by then?
+ Events:
+ -> they take off some access panels
+ -> they manage to get the starte engine going
+ -> large engine won't start (why?)
+
+
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