Behind the Green Door

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So, just what is outside the underground city?

I was interested when watching shows like Silo, and Fallout, what their interpretation would be of what it was like on the outside. Fallout decided on a liveable planet after the nuclear bombs had fallen, and Silo, well, going outside meant a death sentence.

My own choice of world, suffering endless volcanic activity, ash blocking the sun and eventually killing just about everything on the planet, and then the time to come back from the catastrophe.

That might have taken less time than I’m giving it, but I guess that instability and changes in the plates, ocean streams, and climate change, could have made that unlivability last a lot longer.

But…

Whatever the consequences, like is returning to the outside world, and has been for quite a few years, and management has been keeping it to themselves.

There are enterprising people in the city who have discovered a doorway, checked it for themselves, and then set up a group that extends help to anyone who wants to go out.

This Michael discovers in an investigation into a missing woman. And two revelations, that outside is fine, he has seen it for himself, and he discovers Elsie has been going outside. He gets an offer to go, permanently, and avoid Rule 71, but he declines. If he did, he knew management would find the group and what they were doing.

He decides not to expose them.

But, there is something else going on, thefts, and this is another case with yet another investigation, one he also cannot write up in case management discovers the truth.

And two more he will have to doge and weave on when Miranda starts asking difficult questions.

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