Issue 17, Page 6
Transcript
1: Julia’s boots hit cracked, broken pavement.
2: Julia walks down the ruined road. It cuts a path through trees. Much of the road is overgrown with moss, vines, and cracks. The cloudless sky is lit by the two bright suns.
3: Julia stops, arms out a little. She looks down off the pass in shock.
Julia: Whoa, whoa…
4: The land below the bridge, off the edge of the plateau, contains a multitude of buildings between overgrown trees: all in light colored stone, all seem to be cracked or ruined, covered in vines and moss.
Julia: <digital click> Mel, are you seeing this?! It’s a whole damn city… <digital click>
5: She’s looks forward again, excited.
Julia: There’s gotta be…
6: She’s started off at a light run. Clear of the trees, the road curves and extends outwards as a bridge, where it connects with the tops of several towers. These ruined buildings still stand, cracked and moss-covered as they are, connected to the bridge by shaded alcoves. Spreading from the tops of these buildings are large, geometric shapes that mimic the shape of the leaves.
Julia: Food! Water! Something!
Oh… now this is COOL! Damn, Immy, nice work on this page!
She assumes that
(1) Her reports are getting back to the base.
(2) She can get back home.
My assumptions remain that the planet is deserted by its people who colonized the moon and then died out even there. Also that they were an insectoid lifeform (episodes set in 19th cent.)
And I was worried she was hallucinating.
I think it’s more that she is omitting the pointless “On the off chance that you can hear this now or will in the future, and for the benefit of my morale and sanity, as well as to exercise my voice…”
If the planet is a gas giant, then it is highly unlikely that the race that built the city originated there, but instead originated on the moon itself.
THEIR food & water may be poisonous to us. Scifi stories have been written to that effect.
IF any foodstores remain…
She could always try those chittering beetle-crab things.
Yeah, I’d have gone with the bugs, too. At least they’re fresh 🙂
On the other hand, most biological dangers in food found in the ruins of an extinct civilization would have already expired some time after the food itself 😉
Unless she finds a working food synthesizer.
Hmmmmm…….So it’s a moon orbiting a gas giant, in a binary ML system
What does ML stand for?
Julia is one of my favourite characters, hopefully l she makes it back,