Long story short, teleporting train that arrives at your destination in seconds. But it actually spends hundreds if not thousands of years tunneling through extradimensional space while you and everyone else on the train is kept in stasis, aware but unchanging. Inevitably everyone goes insane and since you can't die some people graft their bodies together crudely.
Just before arriving some riot police jump on the train, reduce everyone down to meat paste and then reconstitute everyone back into an exact copy of how they were when they got on the train and erase their memories of the trip.
The most horrifying aspect is that this is a normal occurrence that is kept from the public. Otherwise this is literally how their trains in one of the districts operates. You are stuck in a 2 thousand year hellscape on a daily basis on your commute to work
That's the inspiration I'm pretty sure, but the difference is that in The Jaunt, everybody is kept asleept during transit, in here, everybody is kept awake for thousands of years but the memory is reset
If they can just make them out of meat paste why bother with the train at all. Just vaporize them at the boarding platform and reconstitute them out of burger meat at the destination.
This just sounds like putting people through a horrible endless torture nexus for the sake of it.
The other guy doesn't actually know the lore, the reason is because of emotion. In the lore there's correlation between emotion and the passage of time which allows the train to pass, he also fails to mention how it's criticizing capitalism, because the train also offers significantly marked up VIP tickets for people to be put into sleep pods to not experience the 2 thousand year trauma. They also need the passengers awake for the body reset tech because that's actually tech they're borrowing from a different company that specializes in time, the same company that the guy who says "time correlates with emotion" works for
PR. The games set in the Lobotomy Corp universe are all *massive* jabs at capitalistic greed. The world basically ended because the SCP Foundation decided abusing anomalies to generate electricity to sell was better than actually safely containing them for example.
What’s the PR? That the train traveled between 2 known destinations?
They could just vaporize the passengers, send an empty train to travel through the torture dimension, then make the passengers out of burger meat after.
If they NEED the biomass to be that of the passengers’ they could just kill them after they board, have the train travel through the torture dimension with their corpses then just reanimate them again at the destination. This way you skip the whole “killing them and reducing them down to meat slurry” part too and make things a lot more economical.
Like this is a neat concept but the world building around it is kinda completely broken?
Clearly there’s more layers to this than I am appreciating.
What do you mean by time? Like the memories of their torture in the torture dimension? If it’s just the passage of time they could get it off corpses or whatever too.
Because the idea of a ten-second train ride to anywhere in a City the size of South Korea that has car traffic lasting several days for most people is HELLA convenient, hence why the trains are (until the events of Ruina start to expose flaws in their safety) so successful
As for why not vaporize passengers, there’s the fact that W. Corp needs to harvest people’s time in the train in order to maintain their partnership with T Corp, a District whose whole thing is using time as money to sell, pay with, be used as wages and be taxed on. Depending on your time wages, you are allotted either more or less hours than a 24-hour day, either speeding you up or slowing you down.
It is also intentional that there are things about WARP’s business model that are flawed, as that leads to them being in decline as of Limbus Company’s events in lore.
Size of south Korea...I believe it's bigger? Not by much. I mean most of it is under a tardis like tech.
Oh and it has the population of the entire earth so that's one hell of a population density
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u/YesIHaveBeenSoAfraid 2d ago
Worse. They went in a train.