If I remember correctly from Akira... it is only the year 2017 as far as the two of you remember. That was... a long time ago for me.
In December of 2028, there was a pandemic... A virus called Radical-6. Millions and millions of people died in the span of months, and society quickly started to crumble. Bodies started to pile up. A lack of supply led to the slow starvation of many who were stil left.
In April of 2029, the world leaders who still existed at the time made a last effort to eradicate the disease. Eighteen antimatter reactors were detonated at once across the planet. I... I guess the technology isn't common as far back as you know, but... that kind of explosion is equivalent to a power 180,000 times greater than that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the second World War. The force of the explosions and resulting radiation did eradicate the virus.... but it took a good deal of the human population with it, and sent the rest of the world into a nuclear winter for over seven straight years. Many plants and animals went extinct. Humanity almost did as well.
Between the initial pandemic, society's collapse, and the reactor fallout... six billion lives were lost.
That was a half of a century ago, Goro. People were committing suicide by the thousands. I... I don't agree with it either, and some even think the leaders themselves were infected. But... that's history now.
The project started in 2029, and went into action in 2074. It was put in place to try and prevent our horrible future from ever happening in the first place.
I can't say I know any of the finer details. I wasn't allowed to, for the sake of the project. But... I do know that Doctor Klim had a special ability. He could transport his consciousness through time. He knew things he shouldn't have... remembered events that hadn't happened, or that would happen. I think he had something happen once when he was younger, something horrible. And...
I don't know how... but the project was to help that situation happen again, and to try and change the outcome. A, um... kind of shifting through time, if you will. Though in our case, I suppose it was just a loop.
I don't really know anything more than that, though. I'm sorry. They locked me away from most classified information, so everything I know is just from conversation.
The pandemic would never happen. Mankind would be free to thrive. I imagine that, in that reality, the machine of GTF-DM-L-106 would never be created, let alone turned into Luna. My sole purpose was for the project, after all.
In my reality, I suppose it wouldn't matter. But our reality wasn't supposed to matter.
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In December of 2028, there was a pandemic... A virus called Radical-6. Millions and millions of people died in the span of months, and society quickly started to crumble. Bodies started to pile up. A lack of supply led to the slow starvation of many who were stil left.
In April of 2029, the world leaders who still existed at the time made a last effort to eradicate the disease. Eighteen antimatter reactors were detonated at once across the planet. I... I guess the technology isn't common as far back as you know, but... that kind of explosion is equivalent to a power 180,000 times greater than that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the second World War. The force of the explosions and resulting radiation did eradicate the virus.... but it took a good deal of the human population with it, and sent the rest of the world into a nuclear winter for over seven straight years. Many plants and animals went extinct. Humanity almost did as well.
Between the initial pandemic, society's collapse, and the reactor fallout... six billion lives were lost.
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[No further elaboration on what that means, though. He's too distracted by, uhhhh, everything else?]
13 years into the future, and that's the best your leaders could come up with? What kind of bullshit is that?
[HEWWO? SOCIAL DISTANCING?]
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The project started in 2029, and went into action in 2074. It was put in place to try and prevent our horrible future from ever happening in the first place.
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SPOILERS FOR ZERO ESCAPE IN GENERAL SORRY ANDIE
I can't say I know any of the finer details. I wasn't allowed to, for the sake of the project. But... I do know that Doctor Klim had a special ability. He could transport his consciousness through time. He knew things he shouldn't have... remembered events that hadn't happened, or that would happen. I think he had something happen once when he was younger, something horrible. And...
I don't know how... but the project was to help that situation happen again, and to try and change the outcome. A, um... kind of shifting through time, if you will. Though in our case, I suppose it was just a loop.
I don't really know anything more than that, though. I'm sorry. They locked me away from most classified information, so everything I know is just from conversation.
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... And then, what? What will happen to you if your creator's plan is a success?
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In my reality, I suppose it wouldn't matter. But our reality wasn't supposed to matter.
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I don't understand what you mean.
The doctor himself knew the risks. His son... was in the same position as myself.
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In a way, I suppose it is. That doesn't change how I feel about it, though.