Board Thread:Lores/@comment-30517583-20170815110739

Ten years later, after the first outbreak.



 Kingstreet now stands, as the city the said government had always dreamed of. Despite being cut off from the outside world, they had continued work on the island "city", steadily using up their explosives, and sent a tug boat, the SS. Bolivar, back towards the mainland, with some engineering crew and a few military personnel. They were never heard of again. A month after that, a drab green military Huey helicopter landed in the middle of a square of cleared ground, and let out its cargo of 12 soldiers and the Head of the Department of Infrastructure.



After taking in the irregular patches of cleared ground dotting the island, he turns to the Chief Engineer, and with a sneer plastered across his face, he wheels around and heads to the Huey, followed by his attache of soldiers.

"Keep working."

The official departs, leaving the workers on the island in a daze, unsure of what to ask, what to say.

Work went on as usual, and buildings sprung up all around the island, fashioned by the very limestone the engineers blasted out of the rocks. A mineral processing centre was set up on one side of the island's bay, and a bridge and tram system was also set up to transport workers around the island.

However, the island suffered from lack of resources. Growing food was not an option due to the limestone terrain, but whatever precious dirt there was had been used for plantations on the ships, directing some of the steam from the boiler room into mini greenhouses to accelerate the growth of crops. Water could be drawn from the sea and pumped into purifiers. As for oil, they had a plentiful supply that was replenished each month by the arrival of a medium sized oil tanker from the Bouri Oil Rig.

However, on this day, the tanker from the Bouri Rig failed to arrive on time.

And then, the next month was the same.

Then, a radio broadcast on an open channel was recieved by the Engineers.

"The seas are now -Beep-, please advise that all coastal buildings or land be fortified and patroled, the arrival of the -Beep- is imminent. I repeat, the -Beep- are coming."



To be continued?  </ac_metadata>