Morrow Project as a workable concept

[Matt W]

Don't focus on the isolated Teams. In the game history, the Morrow Project MIGHT have worked - but it was unlucky.

The Project's strategy looks more plausible if we consider that the primary objective was to set up an "island of civilization" at Prime Base - and build out from there.

Other parts of the project were intended to support the Prime Base "island". The primary purpose of the Field Teams was to assist Prime Base by finding useful resources and allies, identifying dangers, and so on. Assisting with local recovery attempts would have a lower priority.

The "freeze-then-build-out" type of approach didn't work for the Morrow Project BUT it was successful for the Rich 5 (also known as the Kentucky Free State) and for the Frozen Chosen. Perhaps the Project was just too ambitious and too unlucky?

[Father Fletch]

Originally Posted by Matt W

Don't focus on the isolated Teams. In the game history, the Morrow Project MIGHT have worked - but it was unlucky.

The Project's strategy looks more plausible if we consider that the primary objective was to set up an "island of civilization" at Prime Base - and build out from there.

Other parts of the project were intended to support the Prime Base "island". The primary purpose of the Field Teams was to assist Prime Base by finding useful resources and allies, identifying dangers, and so on. Assisting with local recovery attempts would have a lower priority.

The "freeze-then-build-out" type of approach didn't work for the Morrow Project BUT it was successful for the Rich 5 (also known as the Kentucky Free State) and for the Frozen Chosen. Perhaps the Project was just too ambitious and too unlucky?

To expand on this a bit, the purported higher survivability of dispersed teams, protecting from threats internal and external threats immediately post war, ended up being a net negative when Gang aft agley.

The KFS and R5, by putting all their eggs in one freezer basket, did better by concentrating their resources.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

I thought the main plot of The Morrow Project was that the timers on the cryo chambers malfunctioned, and awakened the teams too far in the future; furthermore, that the main base was hit by saboteurs, and the network capability of each "bolthole" was wrecked. So teams in Atlanta wouldn't be able to communicate with teams in Jacksonville (FL or TN), and so on.

The point about TMP "working" is that all of that stuff isn't supposed to work: it's gone. It's no longer (initially, anyway) about re-setting and restoring a devastated United States, but survival, like in T2k. Down the road once Alpha Base is recovered, yes. But the future the teams find themselves in, in 218x, is supposed to be untenable. No, 4-8 people can't reset the US. But the plan in the late 20th century was never about just 4-8 people, it was large numbers of 4-8 person teams, centrally guided, with all of the advantages that would give.