Tales of 2020 - Myths and Machinery - 2001

2001
North America
Throughout the Emperor Zone, various observatories pick up on increased solar activity…

Attempts are made to bring this to the attention of the ‘Higher Ups’ of the InterCon. (Astronomers are certainly important, but not that important.)
Later in the year, the Conglomerate Space Corporation notes the increased solar activity. The various astronomers who had observed the activity compare it with the activity observed prior to the Carrington Event, but these observations are ignored…

A large colony ship full of replicants is launched towards the Jovian Trojans on a mining mission.

More of the Bermudan mountains sink beneath the waves. The navigational hazards in the Triangle seem to disappear entirely…

Advocacy for Same Sex Marriage continues.

Conglomerate forces again fail to capture Jack Sparrow. It’s as if he has some method of escape…

A terrorist plot to destroy buildings on Manhattan Island is foiled.


South America
Deep in the Amazon, Daniela Wellington recovers evidence of Tawantinsuyu colonies, before an Intercon team could cover it up. She manages to escape via an overgrown Portal Gate to a safe location in Patagonia. (The Intercom team find the Gate, but are unable to determine where Wellington had fled to.)

The Seelie Court intervenes in a dispute between the Argentinian Administrative Zone and the Governing Council.


Africa
An InterCon force neutralises something beneath one of the Egyptian pyramids…


Europe
This summer, there is a heatwave across the continent, but this is but a taste of what is to come.


Asia
An incident occurs in the East China Sea, a Chinese submarine nearly collides with an InterCon warship. Eventually, cooler heads prevail.

A rogue General in the People’s Liberation Army attempts to start a nuclear exchange between China and India when he seizes a silo. However, forces loyal to Beijing manage to recapture the site before a launch occurs.


Oceania
Goblins go extinct in Victoria. The population in New South Wales (near the town of Jerilderie), continue dropping like flies…

In the Terra Australis REZ, ore trains reach a length of 10km…

The Mir, a former Russian space station, deorbits into the Pacific near Fiji…

Sonic the Hedgehog delayed review

( Spoilers )

The Twenty Second Day of Isolation

Twenty Second Day – Another Friday. Not only would I have been volunteering at the op shop, I would have been at the Zoo also. Helping out with the Giraffe encounter, where the guests get to go up close to the Giraffe and feed them carrots. (A carrot to a Giraffe is like chocolate is to us, so it’s ‘tongue territory’ as one keeper put it. One has to be quick to avoid the saliva. But there is hand sanitiser available). The Zoo has put up a video on their YouTube channel as a virtual encounter, so that’s good.
Silent Extinction – only 70000 left in the wild, mainly due to habitat loss as competition rises with herdspeople as human populations increase. It’s the Rhinos and Elephants getting all the press, but the Giraffe, not so much.