Thursday Tale

Its the end of the world and Io9 feels fine

What do you have?

Sir. We have been following a growing movement up on the surface. An online community from before seems to have found a way to stay in contact, and has formed a sort of resistance/survival group. And from our contacts they have managed to not only survive but to thrive.

What do we know about these people?

Well they seem to be members of what was an online science fiction and science community. So far we have been able to establish that they came from every walk of life and from all over the world. Here is a brief on the website. We have been unable to identify many of the members outside of the individuals who ran the website. Here is what we have on them.

From what we can tell they have formed up into groups in different parts of the world and somehow have managed to stay in contact via radio, messengers, and more recently, internet.

They have internet? How? We have barely even seen any locations with electricity.

As the brief shows they come from every walk of life. There were engineers of every discipline. Artists, librarians, architects, scientists, students, Jacks and Jills of all trades. Furthermore, these are people who didn’t just plan for an occasional power outage or went to see the latest blockbuster disaster movie. These are the people who create zombie apocalypse guides. They lived and breathed the world of “what if”. If you will look over the brief you will see what kinds of conversations and ideas were being thrown around there. They ranged from the absurdly deranged to the disturbingly well thought out. In short sir, these people have trained their minds to deal with almost any situation.

Now they are not all in the same locations. There are groups in different areas, but there are also a number of individuals scattered around. But we are seeing movement. More and more people are going to the groups strongholds. From what we can see not all are former members. We think the friends and families of the members are somehow finding their way to these bases. And we think they are doing so from small teams of members. We had a report from a refugee came in Georgia of three individuals coming to the camp and leaving with a group of 50 or so people. We have received reports from other locations of this happening.

Sir. From what we can tell, these people are better organized and more prepared then even we are. We are just surviving and once our supplies run out, we are finished. These people are not just surviving. They are fighting back. They are thriving.

Can we make contact?

We can try. Electronically we are only set up to monitor the situation. Any contact we make will have to be in person. And there is a chance that they may want nothing to do with us. Some still hold us responsible for what happened.

From what you tell me, these people may be our only chance at surviving and rebuilding our forces. Bring in a team.

It may take some times Sir. Our resources and men are stretched thin.

Make it your top priority.

Yes Sir.