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*Walks out behind you and up to the nearest railing, glancing out over the “city”- the view of what looked like may have been a city from behind the barricade turns out to be much more modest before, as the nearby “skyscrapers” turn out to be at about the same level as we are at ten stories or so. A couple of them have actually collapsed from what looks like fire damage that has long since petered out, and the same fate seems to have befallen a handful of smaller building and houses in the area surrounding the miniature business zone. Cars rest stopped in the street, some of them having collided with each other or into buildings or poles, and all about the streets it can be made out that people are lying motionless all over the place, or slumped against walls or objects near them. A very select few people can be seen dragging themselves around slowly, some on their feet and some crawling*
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*Looks down and away from the view*

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*Gazes horizontally across the horizon, taking in all the sights*
Mass panic? For a dying people, they sure had the strength to make a mess of things.

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No, I don’t think that’s what happened. People all over reported severe loss of energy and motivation, to the point that it got worse and worse with no real cap on its severity. It started getting so bad that people who are still alive just eventually stopped moving altogether. If they were driving, they just stopped steering their cars or braking. If they were cooking dinner at home, they left the stove on and sat until their houses burned down around them. They let themselves starve, or dehydrate if they don’t have food or water, and they stop talking to anyone too…
*Walks a few steps away from the railing, making a conscious effort to not look anymore*

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Acute fatigue? It didn’t increase gradually over several days?

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It increased, alright. I wouldn’t call it gradual though.

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But quickly enough that that felt fine enough to turn on a stove and then couldn’t muster the energy or will to turn it back on?

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I mean, if you put something in the oven for a few hours while you’re already having to literally drag yourself over to do it, then give it a few hours? Doesn’t seem all that unbelievable to me. It is a rapid descension though, all things considered. Once that symptom sets in.

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But driving? It’s like their strength fell off a cliff.

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You cannot mean to tell me that when the ship starts flashing warnings at you about manual control that you wouldn't jump to manual control.

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Getting fatigued usually doesn’t get quite this severe. No one believed it would get so bad that they couldn’t move anymore, that’s hardly normal. Now, a reasonable person would say they shouldn’t have been driving anyway, but no one was there to provide them with the necessities after all of society’s basic functions just totally collapsed.

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Y... Yeah well, i tend to first try and listen the actual words of the warning and then act? It seemed like it just had trouble understanding how can a solar system have thousands of planets, which seems to be the case pretty much everywhere in this universe *Gestures at the window to show the thousands of planets orbiting this red giant we are currently orbiting*

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What would that do to cause a navigation error? That doesn’t add up.

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I want to zoom in on the idea of someone feeling well enough to drive, even if they’re sick, to being unable to move at all. No matter where you start, that’s a steep drop.

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Huh? What do you mean... just look at this place that seems to be from the dreams of a madman! *Gestures at the window more insistently* Have you ever seen a universe that just says 'what's the problem with a couble dozen thousand planets in orbit per star system?' I mean you're the traveller boy not me...

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It is. I mean, in the end though, it’s the only explanation I have. No one who’s kept an eye on the outside for extended periods ever reported anything to the effect of chaos or rioting or anything like that.

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With that in mind, if I wreck your car, it’s not my fault.

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I’ve seen computers that don’t think that hard about it...

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Just be careful? That’s all I can ask.

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Well excuse me that The Terran Dominion, didn't thought to plop in a ship's navigational processors the 'oh and watch out for impossible realities should you fall down the barrel of a black hole'