Culture Of Ash

"They thought this place was a weapon."

"They thought this place was the weapon. The final solution. Capable of burning any target of any size to dust and cinder. Just think hard enough about it and BAM - it would be ashes. Anything from a person to a nation. They hoped they would use it defend themselves from the very Polaris missiles they had created."

"But it wasn't a weapon. It was The Dome."

"It was The Sphere. Something crashed. Long time ago. Nobody knew what it was - but a few of us had a pretty good guess. Knew it wasn't a weapon. Knew it couldn't actually hurt anyone. But we also knew that the government would never sponsor what we needed if they knew that. Especially with everything we needed. New age construction materials. Factories to convert basic elements into food. That kind of thing. Know what 99% of everything is around you kid? Ash. Not dust from buildings or rocks - the dead ashes of all the life that used to be on this planet. Pouris uses it. Everything you eat uses it. We knew it would be the most abundant resource around after everything went to shit - so we went about forming a whole culture that could survive on it."

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