[TML] Does "Operation Reset" Make Sense?

[John Kwon]

On 12/2/07, Richard Aiken <raikenclw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 1, 2007 12:49 AM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net> wrote:
> > OK, so maybe someone
> > was stupid enough to deliberately cripple both sides - that can
> > happen.
>
> I'm suggesting he update the timeline to "Twilight: 2017."  Maybe not
> a nuclear war, but a "natural" disaster.  Such as what happens in "Ill
> Wind" by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason; an oil company releases an
> oil-eating microbe on a massive oil spill which propogates by air and
> within days all oil-based materials either evaporate or dissolve.
> Civilization basically ends.  But before it does, paranoid Russia
> tries to nuke everybody else.
>

Or you could update it to Road Warrior.

Let's see - the oil peaks at this year in the timeline, and oil production
begins to drop.  Economic shocks begin to accumulate rapidly (the first one
being that the OPEC nations are found to have vastly overstated their
reserves, and have borrowed heavily against those predicted reserves),
culminating in the worldwide collapse of banking, followed by world war (see
the first 10 minutes of the movie "The Road Warrior"), followed by rampant
civil war, then anarchy.

At that point, going on a mission to recover some fuel and a working
generator would be something worth dying for.

Oddly, I still see this as a real possibility.