Scavengers

Author's Note: This was a co-op project between me and a friend way long ago in middle school, and I decided to bring the idea back and inject some life into it! A big thank you to my friend, he's the main reason this story exists, as he was the one who came up with the original plot and idea. Huge kudos to him; I wouldn't have been able to do it without his boundless creativity and his wonderful friendship throughout all these years. Cheers Scott!

To: (REDACTED)
ccc: (REDACTED), (REDACTED), (REDACTED)
Subject Line: Fuck.
Body:
Okay, so, this is day 720 of operations, so first off happy two year anniversary to all groups! With that aside, I'd like to announce that us in the (REDACTED) have celebrated this occasion by quite possibly blowing up the (REDACTED) reactor.

As per the usual, we booted up the (REDACTED) and began the start up tests. Everything went fantastic, but then a message appeared that we've never run across before. It was something along the lines of this:

>Open the (REDACTED)?
>Y/N

After a good discussion lasting all of thirteen seconds, we hit Y on the console and waited. Then, shit and the fan went on a speed date, the (REDACTED) crashed, and now we're suffering from a power grid failure.

Again.

The back-up generators saved all of the important stuff, but the (REDACTED) draws way too much power for the generators to run it. Which, as you may expect, is kind of fucking up the whole dealio we got going on. We're working on repairs, but those are going to be a while; the fires took nearly a day to put out.

Anyways, I just wanted to keep y'all in the (REDACTED) up to date. Hope your projects are going a lot better than ours.

Best wishes,

(REDACTED) Lead Scientist and Organizer,
North Star