Originally Posted By: quick_joey_small
<I must confess that I find the entire scenario to be somewhat contradictory and confusing >

same here i'm not understanding it:

Hopefully my reply to Pete will address your confusion. If not, let me know.

Originally Posted By: quick_joey_small
<We certainly do not need weapons. In a post apocalyptic world everybody, and their grandmother, has weapons>
why? just because society collapses it means suddenly everyone gets a gun? where have all these weapons come from? and doesn't that mean you DO need them?

That was an exaggeration to point out how the last thing we need is more weapons.

Originally Posted By: quick_joey_small
<any equipment still working is at least forty-years-old.>

why? what apocalypse only destroys equipment less than 40 years old?

By the time the story begins, the apocalypse happened a long time ago. Though the stuff hit the fan in 2012, forty years is a nice, round number. Some equipment could have been new out of the box in 2012 making them thirty-eight-years-old in 2050.

Jeanette Isabelle
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