Post-Collapse Survival
Colony
Jon Kelly's job is not to be right. It is to decide.
The apocalypse was not what anyone expected. Not an explosion. No zombies. No plague. A cascade of quiet failures that stripped away the automated world in seventy-two silent hours.
North Valley Settlement survived. Around a hundred people live in the valley now. They have found roles shaped by necessity and personality alike. They look to Jon Kelly for quiet leadership. He listens. He asks. He thinks. And when the time comes, he decides.
He recovered a terminal. It blinks when it receives his words. He records his critical decisions into the machine, but it does not respond. His words may be heading into the void. Or they may one day help others rebuild with greater wisdom.
What you receive
Unit leaders bring Jon problems shaped by their expertise and their bias. He may ask one clarifying question. Then he must decide.
The Mandate
After Jon records his plan, the Mandate evaluates it. Unknown to him, it assesses the structure of his reasoning and the likely impact on the colony's trajectory. His advisors bring what they know, shaped by what they fear. Jon sees their reports. He does not see the verdict.
The advisors
Six advisors, three of them below. Each one sees a different version of the same problem. The quote and worldview are all you have to work with.
Joe Edwards
Head of Security
“If we hesitate for one second, the perimeter doesn't exist anymore.”
The world outside is a hungry void; survival requires a wall that never blinks.
Veronica Delany
Community Architect
“If we lose our humanity in the name of survival, what exactly are we saving?”
A colony isn't a collection of assets; it's a promise to one another.
Peter Michael
Systems Engineer
“Entropy is the only law that never fails. Everything else is a temporary fix.”
The collapse wasn't an event; it's a process. We are just slowing the leak.
What The Mandate sees
Jon Kelly does not see this. You do.
Five Stats
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