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====Wilderness Preserves==== | ====Wilderness Preserves==== | ||
Wilderness Preserves are the only rural areas mentioned in Oni, and the manual (for what it's worth) refers to them as "massive tracts of quarantined land". Apparently the Wilderness Preserves are the epicenters of pollution, and -- at the time of Oni's events -- the air above them is so bad that civilian fly-overs are forbidden. It's not just that people flying over "one of the Contaminated Zones" would witness one of the "dirty secrets that government made it easy to ignore" -- apparently flying over a Zone taints your aircraft with "biological contamination" (hopefully superficial). | Wilderness Preserves are the only rural areas mentioned in Oni, and the manual (for what it's worth) refers to them as "massive tracts of quarantined land". Apparently the Wilderness Preserves are the epicenters of pollution, and -- at the time of Oni's events -- the air above them is so bad that civilian fly-overs are forbidden. It's not just that people flying over "one of the Contaminated Zones" would witness one of the "dirty secrets that the government made it easy to ignore" -- apparently flying over a Zone taints your aircraft with "biological contamination" (hopefully superficial). | ||
The source of the pollution in the "afflicted areas" is never mentioned in Oni, and perhaps it is classified. The initial pollution ( | The source of the pollution in the "afflicted areas" is never mentioned in Oni, and perhaps it is classified. The initial pollution (when the WCG took charge) may have been blamed on reckless biowarfare and experimentation (secret labs far away from the cities? Phase Tech, or generally risky tech?) -- but then new sources of pollution appeared, first when the WCG went ahead with standardization and the "recycling" of old tech, and later when the WCG's ACCs started to produce large (unmanageably large?) quantities of toxic waste. | ||
Likely the Contaminated Zones are a testament to WCG's poor management of the BioCrisis, but we do not know how much of it is the WCG's fault. We do not know what pictures the Hasegawas would have brought back from their trip, if only Jamie had worn thicker/longer pants on her way in: | Likely the Contaminated Zones are a testament to WCG's poor management of the BioCrisis, but we do not know how much of it is the WCG's fault. We do not know what pictures the Hasegawas would have brought back from their trip, if only Jamie had worn thicker/longer pants on her way in: | ||
*a huge dump of used batteries of every size imaginable? | *a huge dump of used batteries of every size imaginable? | ||
*decaying biomatter from | *decaying biomatter from failed [[Marionette]] experiments? | ||
*drums | *drums upon drums of condensed toxic waste from the ACCs? | ||
*[[wp:Roadside Picnic|artifacts that make your bones melt and your eyes explode]]? | *[[wp:Roadside Picnic|artifacts that "make your bones melt and your eyes explode"]]? | ||
*phase portals through which aliens are throwing their trash at us? | *phase portals through which aliens are throwing their trash at us? | ||
(possibly as a "thank you" for toxic waste being fed into the Phase by the WCG) | (possibly as a "thank you" for toxic waste being fed into the Phase by the WCG) | ||
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We Do Not Know. All we know is that "the world outside [the cleaning range of] the Atmospheric Processors is poisonous" -- virulent enough to kill a person who has barely set foot in a Zone (pun intended... because Jamie had ''barely walked'' into the Zone... ''bare-legged'', geddit?). | We Do Not Know. All we know is that "the world outside [the cleaning range of] the Atmospheric Processors is poisonous" -- virulent enough to kill a person who has barely set foot in a Zone (pun intended... because Jamie had ''barely walked'' into the Zone... ''bare-legged'', geddit?). | ||
:For what it's worth, we are never told that ''all'' the Wilderness Preserves (a.k.a. Contaminated Zones) are ''identically'' polluted. Some of them can be dumps of old tech, others may be home to toxic waste, others yet may be "Ground Zeros" of experiments gone wrong. The Hasegawas simply happened to pick a really nasty Zone (although it's always possible that other Zones were even nastier). | :For what it's worth, we are never told that ''all'' the Wilderness Preserves (a.k.a. Contaminated Zones) are ''identically'' polluted. Some of them can be dumps of old tech, others may be home to toxic waste, others yet may be "Ground Zeros" of experiments gone wrong. The Hasegawas simply happened to pick a really nasty Zone (although it's always possible that other Zones were even nastier). | ||
==Into The Zone== | ==Into The Zone== | ||
At some point in the early WCG years -- some time after the Uprising but late enough for both the BioCrisis and the Syndicate to have emerged -- another key event occurred that would change the face of Oni's world forever: [[:Image:Dream_6_Jamie_gets_infection.jpg|Jamie Cut Her Leg]]. | At some point in the early WCG years -- some time after the Uprising but late enough for both the BioCrisis and the Syndicate to have emerged -- another key event occurred that would change the face of Oni's world forever: [[:Image:Dream_6_Jamie_gets_infection.jpg|Jamie Cut Her Leg]]. | ||