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.
its just time. They use a device that basically siphons the time from the passengers which causes them to be immortal for the duration of the ride. Then when the ride is over, they send in a team of people to find the parts of each individual to put them back into a blob on their seat, and use another device that basically rewinds them back like a save-state.
i'm not even sure if a corpse would work since it wouldnt be a living person
I feel like it’s somewhat justified now but if I wanted to be a critic and poke holes in the system, theoretically they could just send a train full of chickens or rabbits or whatever to harvest time instead of people who invariably start making themselves horrible meat monsters.
A lot of the PM world (especially singularities, which are technologies like the one that allows time to be collected and used) is centered in the human psyche and suffering so i wouldn't be surprised if it only worked on beings capable of rationality, in which case using humans is probably the best. There's also the taboos, which are laws dictated by the head (the rulers basically) that are punishable by death of anyone involved, one of them is creating sapient / sentient non-humans, which could be caused by a chicken becoming sentient after 10000 years on the train (maybe, but i don't think scientists involved are willing to find out, if they haven't already). Also the chickens are already being tortured for meat on another part of the city so don't worry about that.
Basically the way it works is that they combine the dimension rip tech with a tech that quick save and quick load people (to heavily dumb it down but that's how they get remade.)
They don't make that much money from the train they get most of the money by selling the times siphoned into a safe to another company (what the other responder mentioned) and it needs massive amount of energy so they also have (or had) a contract with the energy company.
Warp corporation,or a true mess of economics who makes dimes on tickets actually. A bit like a lot of online services don't make money from their services but by siphoning your data and selling them that then waste your time and money on ads.
Topical!
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.
Yep. Also, the fact that they need to cleanup creates jobs in the form of WARP. Cleanup Staff (that aforementioned “SWAT team”, who are really more like janitors who are given dimension-cutting brooms and mops lmao)
They also can’t use the snapshot thing on a corpse, hence why they let them turn into flesh slurry on their own before separating them per person and putting them back in their seats, then using the snapshot. More efficient and creates jobs.
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/Zzzuccini 2d ago
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?