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Originally Posted by tsofian
Well he or they won't be alive when the Players get there, however
I find it hard to imaging an airborne disease that would infect EVERYBODY in a population of several hundred or several thousand and kill them ALL. Virgin field epidemics don't even do that. Even HIV had a statistical immune population. Anthrax might come close but even untreated anthrax isn't always fatal.
So there were probably a person or even a few people who were issued the suicide pills and waited until they felt very ill, as they were instructed to do, and never got sick. They may have ended up taking the pills anyway, because life in what amounted to a giant tomb where not only all the people they had known for years, but all their dreams and indeed the dreams of mankind had been brutally murdered would have to suck!
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I would still write everyone off as dead. Even with statistical probability, the chance is remote.
However, as I see it the personnel awake prior to the war and awake and recording through the conflict are not the Project command team.
These are the base caretakers. The ones that oversee day to day operations and would keep the lights on until year three. Then at year three an assessment would be made as to awaken the Command staff.
So in my scenario, it is the Command Staff and not the Pheonix team in cryosleep.