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Furthermore, they seem to have spent 15 years killing each other while nobody attempted to build or rebuild any non-electric infrastructure: They mentioned not
by anonymouz 14y ago
Furthermore, they seem to have spent 15 years killing each other while nobody attempted to build or rebuild any non-electric infrastructure: They mentioned not being able to produce bullets, there seems to be only one train that is restored, and so on.
The industrial revolution happened before we had electricity, so you'd think they'd find a way to restore some kind of industry.
- knowaveragejoe 14y agoIs one of the plot points that every skilled worker was wiped out? Otherwise I have a hard time believing that in just 15 years people have forgotten the basics of electricity and thus how to rig up a simple generator(among other tools).
- smacktoward 14y agoThe uneven-but-mostly-OK post-apocalypse show Jeremiah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_%28TV_series%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_%28TV_series%29) dealt with this problem in a better way: the Apocalypse MacGuffin was a disease that killed everyone who had been through puberty. The show was set 15 years after the "big death", so the characters were all people who had been too young to understand how these things worked when they were still working. (Some were smart enough to figure the basics out, of course, which made them highly valuable.)
- flexd 14y agoThe plot is that electric things to not work, at all. A perfectly working generator would just stop at the time of the incident.