In 1981, after Japan House was finished being built, the Bicker Institute
started trying to think of other ways to allow the human race to survive.
Eight full bunkers were already up and ready to go, with another House in New
Zealand, which was designed to maintain its population mostly above ground.
Jumping off of that idea, they decided that keeping people underground wasn’t
necessarily the only way to survive the end of the world. In fact, it may not
even be the best way. The organization was not founded upon the basis of some
specific disaster. If they had those answers, they probably would have
channeled all of their efforts into stopping it. They wanted to prepare for
anything, and massive global earthquakes, for instance, might just bury all of
their bunkers, so they wanted to come up with new strategies. People in the
ocean could conceivably survive such a thing. It wasn’t guaranteed, but
nothing was, and again, this was all about preparation. They needed a ship.
They needed the best ship in the world. And they needed it to potentially
endure a tidal wave or tsunami. Their next interim deadline was in seven
years, which was important, because the hope was to support a certain
percentage of a growing population. The project leads started looking around,
hoping to find something that would meet their requirements. It didn’t have to
be perfect, they had time to modify it, and bolster its features, but after a
few months, things were getting ridiculous. Nothing fit the bill. Nothing was
good enough for them. All ships were made to weather storms to some certain
degree, but none of them could last through the worst storm in history, should
it occur. Before wasting any more time, they decided their only solution was
to build their own vessel from scratch, which they did over the course of the
next eight years. They went about a year past their deadline, but that was
okay, because the actual end of the world wouldn’t start happening until
around 2021, and even then, things weren’t bad enough to warrant populating
the Houses. This latest project made them better with their time management,
and before it was finished, they ended up getting to work on the next plan for
survival, which was a submarine. As for the ship, it was a magnificent beauty,
far beyond anything else 1989 had to offer, and probably even superior to the
ships built in 2021. I won’t tell you whether it, or its Inheritors, survived
what came to it.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Microstory 1602: New House
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