The power outage wasn't worldwide or expected on most levels. New Oslo, New Amsterdam, and New Venice certainly didn't know that it was coming. Some cities are better prepared against power outages because of the trouble the city itself might face. For instance, New Tokyo is generally built up to be prepared for seismic activity that might cause problems - since it's a city literally built on the ocean - but wasn't prepared for the type of extreme cold and blizzard that happened once the Displaced came out of the dreams. New Beijing (and Riverstone's scientists, to be more precise) were aware for some reason of the incoming seismic activity on that particular day!
We'll say now that you've figured it out that naming exact cities was actually a red herring! A lot of cities got hit. Some cities didn't - though in some cases, it was based entirely on luck! What can further be concluded is that it's weird that an earthquake would be predicted to impact New Beijing and New Oslo, even in this globally relocated world. Heck, that's true for New Amsterdam as well - which Cassian will now be able to physically put together, having taken a train from one to the other. How could an earthquake have such a large effect on the world? Hint: the answers are out there.
re: the records, that's fine! Let us know if you need anymore information beyond what we've already provided.
We're looking forward to a post from Cassian on this! As we've said before, we've enjoyed working with you on this, even we've laid a few red herrings and false leads along the way. As we said before, there's still a much bigger picture to solve, but it's been fun writing the puzzle pieces and detours for you along the way.
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The power outage wasn't worldwide or expected on most levels. New Oslo, New Amsterdam, and New Venice certainly didn't know that it was coming. Some cities are better prepared against power outages because of the trouble the city itself might face. For instance, New Tokyo is generally built up to be prepared for seismic activity that might cause problems - since it's a city literally built on the ocean - but wasn't prepared for the type of extreme cold and blizzard that happened once the Displaced came out of the dreams. New Beijing (and Riverstone's scientists, to be more precise) were aware for some reason of the incoming seismic activity on that particular day!
We'll say now that you've figured it out that naming exact cities was actually a red herring! A lot of cities got hit. Some cities didn't - though in some cases, it was based entirely on luck! What can further be concluded is that it's weird that an earthquake would be predicted to impact New Beijing and New Oslo, even in this globally relocated world. Heck, that's true for New Amsterdam as well - which Cassian will now be able to physically put together, having taken a train from one to the other. How could an earthquake have such a large effect on the world? Hint: the answers are out there.
re: the records, that's fine! Let us know if you need anymore information beyond what we've already provided.
We're looking forward to a post from Cassian on this! As we've said before, we've enjoyed working with you on this, even we've laid a few red herrings and false leads along the way. As we said before, there's still a much bigger picture to solve, but it's been fun writing the puzzle pieces and detours for you along the way.