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Analogue Android Dream means Sheep
"When I was young, I looked up at the clouded night sky and tried to see the stars. Straining for any gaps I could see them in. My eyes found the stars that night not in the sky, but in the hills. Yet they twinkled for me just the same."
Introduction
30 years ago, a virulent bio-weapon from eastern forces was met with retaliation from a blanket of USA's nuclear bombs. The retaliation ended the war in victory, but the bio-weapon quickly became a plague. The remainder of the world were killed off by it too quickly for any quarantining or remedy research to be effective. Only a small number of the population was unaffected, by some chance immunity.
Quarantine hit Adelaide, Australia, just days into a large, world-scale music festival. Both refugees from the Asian region who had only a nuclear wasteland left for a homeland and tourists from the winning side of the war were trying to rebound from the strain of wartime - but disease yet crept in.
The after-effects of liberal nuclear use began to show soon after, with irradiated clouds that rolled in and never left, plunging the world into nuclear winter.
Far from any other cities, this small coastal region was left alone with one of the smallest populations of any recovering community after the fear of disease was cleared - only barely over 100. Of the survivors, the number of them that were, at the time, young people their for the parties and splendour led to a large issue in establishing community, forcing small groups to form that largely stayed apart from each other and fought over resources.
Though food and water remain to fall into short supply for a long time yet, the vital electricity to keeping people safe from the cold and freezing to death was far more imminent of an issue. Whilst renewable energy had been established in the now entirely uninhabited desertous area nearer to the center of Australia in way of both solar panels and wind farms, time had done their toll on the turbines.
Electricity has failed in Adelaide, and without it, local fuel will only be able to stave off the cold for so long before the area is entirely uninhabitable and people inevitably die. As such, the only option is for a group to follow the power lines back to the source, into the cold desert. They must find where damage has been done and fix it. You must fix it. For sake of survival.
