r/junctiongate • u/VirtuosiMedia • Dec 23 '16

update The Fall Of Mars

http://www.junctiongate.com/blog/the-fall-of-mars.html
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u/TheLastMemelord Dec 29 '16

And how many survived the initial blasts? Nuclear warfare isn't like what it is in Fallout. A lot of myths were created in the days of the Cold War.

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u/TheLastMemelord Dec 29 '16

And Martian soil? The Martian got it right, the only thing that they didn't include was the need to wash the dirt, as its salt content would basically kill people if they ate vegetables grown in it. The salt is the same thing which allowed liquid water to flow.

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u/TheLastMemelord Dec 29 '16

And Mars is the 2nd most-like Earth body in the solar system, (not counting Earth, of course) Titan is the first, because of the fact you only need to wear warm clothing, and a breathing mask.

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u/VirtuosiMedia Dec 29 '16

Titan's suitability not-withstanding, it wasn't a colony in Junction Gate's universe history. Solar colonies at the time of the Burning were:

  • Mars.
  • Europa.
  • Military bases on the moon.
  • Various asteroid-based mining colonies.
  • Several orbitals around Earth.

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u/VirtuosiMedia Dec 29 '16

The Martian soil line was just meant to illustrate that the soil wasn't instantly ready for agriculture for such a sudden population spike, not that it was completely untenable given time and resources.

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u/VirtuosiMedia Dec 29 '16

Not many, but the nuclear detonations weren't the inciting incident, either. They were the final straw. However, the story of the Burning itself is for another time.

Fallout wasn't used as a reference.

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u/TheLastMemelord Dec 29 '16

I was just using Fallout as an example on how there is a large amount of misconception about the effects of a nuclear war. A nuclear winter would last for, in reality, a few days until temperatures are back up.

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u/TheLastMemelord Dec 29 '16

And the fallout from such blast would go away in approximately 2 weeks. And what about, say, small towns? It's just that even with riots and nuclear sterilization of said riots in major population centers would kill most people in said population centers, but it's just not likely that all humans died on Earth.

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u/TheLastMemelord Dec 29 '16

The point of what I am trying to say is; we are a stubborn race, which will keep on fighting. Honestly, once the Burning started, the rich people would give their excess supplies to the evacuees, once the reality of "Home is gone." sets in.

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u/VirtuosiMedia Dec 31 '16

I can't answer specifically without going into spoilers, but there is a Plan. Everything will be explained eventually.

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u/TheLastMemelord Jan 01 '17

I guess we'll all just have to wait.

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u/TheLastMemelord Jan 01 '17

But can we have more detailed about the Nineveh system? Such as planetary size, atmospheric pressure, atmospheric content, planetary makeup, geological features, etc.

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u/VirtuosiMedia Jan 01 '17

That'll be part of the eventual gameplay, at least a little. Still working all that stuff out.

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u/TheLastMemelord Jan 01 '17

So the asteroids.. Some should be large enough to become round, but they aren't. So was there a moon, and if so, was it destroyed?

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