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1. I'm assuming you know what the San Andreas fault is in California the fault is spread through and around the entire state of California instead of a small patch of California, the Great Divide was caused by a 8.6 earthquake instead of the California dropping off into the ocean; It split apart into the sea forming a group of islands and eventually becoming a peninsula; It is set in 2017 with technology ahead of our universe's technology.
First off, California will never
drop into the ocean; there's no massive hole in the Pacific Ocean anywhere near the U.S. coast for it to fall into, so that's out of the question. And secondly, in case you're not aware, in 1906 there was an earthquake in California. The scale of the entire earthquake averaged at around 7.8 on the Richter scale; technically, the earthquake itself preceded the invention of the Richter scale by about three decades if I recall correctly, but that's besides the point. So, a 7.8 earthquake with a maximum output of approximately 8.3, as scientists have proposed; not the most destructive in history, but still extremely destructive nonetheless. About 3,000 people died and about 80% of the entirety of San Francisco was destroyed. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history, and even now is referred to as one of the worst and deadliest natural disasters in the history of the U.S..
And the maximum observed surface displacement between the land itself was around 20 feet; geodetic measurements showed displacements of up to 28 feet in total.
As a show of good faith, I'll leave the observations and evidence there. Now, in case my point hasn't been made clear, a 7.8 earthquake resulted in a displacement of 20 feet. So I find it very hard to believe that an earthquake that doesn't even surpass that by a factor of one could cause the entirety of California to break away from the U.S., but I'll chalk that up to a relative lack of research, and I don't presume to believe that you intended for the setting to include the idea of one massive earthquake causing the entirety of California to break away from the U.S. no-holds-barred. Unless you did, in which case that calls for extra analysis.
One of my main points is that a displacement of 20 feet caused 3,000 people to lose their lives in San Francisco alone, which then had a population of around 400,000 according to very quick research; may be an inaccurate figure, but it's the best I have at this current moment. That's less than 1% of the total population, I'll acquiesce to that point, but it's still rather a lot of people, as well as around 80% of San Francisco itself being obliterated by this earthquake registering a 7.8 and creating 20 feet of surface displacement.
So, I suppose my overarching point, aside from the geological impossibility of an 8.6 earthquake causing California to break away from the continental U.S., is that if such an earthquake managed to cause so much damage yet look so pathetically weak in comparison to this fictional 1989 earthquake...I think it's safe to say that there wouldn't
be a California for this RP to be set within. The entire place would be gone, annihilated. If a single person could survive an earthquake of a sufficient magnitude to break California away from the U.S., then that person is not human; they're a fucking Kryptonian that arrived in a rocket ship as a baby.
Even if you gave twenty-eight years as a discrepancy time period, that would not be nearly enough time for California to break away from the continent without a catastrophic amount of casualties. Tectonic plates and land-masses take hundreds of thousands, even millions of years to move around a significant amount of distance; most of them move around five to ten centimetres a year on average, if I'm not mistaken.
Forget a city in distress; there would be no city.
2. The city is the size of 1/4 the size of Montana, with the cold war in this universe is at high stakes of going nuclear between the two countries with the great divide the denizens saw this chance to break away from america and develop a new peaceful country. Yes not accepting government aid was hurtful to the city but they were willing to fight for peace, hoping at the price of not getting caught in the middle of a cold nuclear war.
This is the first I've heard of this 'Cold War'. When did this happen? You do realise that a Cold War is a state of political hostility including most anything short of open warfare, and if a country openly rebels against the government and declares itself a sovereign state as well as literally fighting and developing superhumans against them, that is an active declaration of war?
And for the second part, see the answer above. Assuming anybody was alive at all, not accepting government help would not simply be hurtful, it would be suicide. Not only would it be suicide, there wouldn't be any opportunity for civilisation, would there? There'd be no electricity, no luxuries; the entire place might as well be used as a scene for the Walking Dead and nobody would be able to tell the difference aside from the masses of water and flooding everywhere.
3. ADM-20 is around the world in smaller deposit or corrupted by other elements; The reason why it is localized to California is the biggest deposit of pure ADM-20 has founded in the California peninsula, with EVE-10 only being found in the water can be found in the ocean the most natural source of being found in the peninsula since ADM-20 was released into water mixing with the water and forming EVE-10 with them settled at the bottom of the ocean.
So you're saying that the deposits of ADM-20 are found in the Californian peninsula and subsequently released into water containing EVE-10, the resulting product of which is...EVE-10? Even though it's already found in the water?
Either you've got your facts wrong, or you've worded it very strangely and need to clarify further.
4. The reason being for Torn given autonomy boils down to the one thing that drives the whole world: Money. Torn is a moneymaker for the good Ole US of A. Having a military powerhouse being your bodyguard is a good thing for Torn, that doesn’t mean the US isn't keeping tabs on Torn they have there own spies in the city like other countries.
I'll be straight with you when I say that this move makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If it is a moneymaker for whatever fucking reason, given its current state, then why the hell wouldn't that be an even bigger incentive to annex the city once more and reap the benefits for themselves?
If this city is such a gigantic moneymaker and they allow the city its own autonomy,
they can't use those megabucks for their own purposes, do they realise that? If the U.S. has a city rebel against them, subsequently lose that battle, and then they find out after the fact that said city generates insane amounts of money, what other response would the U.S. possibly have other than to take back the city
that, according to the law is still rightfully theirs, so they can use said money for their own ends.
The only other explanation for your statement is to assert that Torn is only such a moneymaker when it is allowed autonomy from the government, in which case...why? Surely anything an isolated, underpopulated, undercultured city could do, the federal U.S. with all of their resources could do countless times better? If that isn't the case then please, feel free to enlighten me on why exactly it is that I am wrong in this regard.
5. Yes, Miss.Brodnax is a public figure and the women accredited to the world as the woman who discovered ADM-20 and EVE-10; What isn’t know is she gave the Rebels the ability to even have superpowers, she saw a testing ground when the rebellion happened and then proceeded with her experiment. She handed over what the government wanted out of her in order to keep Torn afloat, To me she like a hydra cut off one head and two more will grow back. As for keeping things under wraps she has the right people and assets to get the job done even if they don’t have a free will they still get the job done. There are leaks from time to time but her PR team wipes them out as rumors.
I believe I touched upon this when I said:
Even if they kept it under wraps and somehow managed to fool every single government in the entire world with all of their resources, they're the ones that discovered this new metal in the first place; never mind keeping it under wraps, that would be impossible to hide from the governments of the world 100%.
Of course, it's very easy to take a large, faceless company and/or person and say "They did whatever they had to do to keep their company afloat" or "They have the right people to get the job done", but I don't think you grasp the scale of the entire affair.
You do realise that the U.S. government are not morons, correct? If a company very publicly discovers a new compound, and then an entire city later commits high treason by using that exact same compound to develop superpowers, that would be possibly the biggest red flag one could be capable of noticing, especially a federal government.
You say there are other supplies, and of course they could have supplied it, but the government would still
immediately call for a company-wide investigation; best case scenario to cover all of their bases, and worst case scenario to seek out high treason. And of course, if it were these other sources, they would have nothing to fear.
But they did supply it. They even helped develop it to be accessible to humans. Therefore, short of destroying every single scrap of research and somehow ensuring that every single employee unanimously kept their silence out of sheer loyalty, there is no way that the government would not uncover that. A PR team can only do so much; the entire company would be stripped down
to the bare bones. It's easy to talk about bureaucratic incompetence, but when it involves treason and potential eradication, there isn't a single millimetre of a single closet that wouldn't be searched, especially with apparently advanced technology that this world possesses. To hand over enough for the government to be satisfied, she would have to hand over
everything. And to hand over everything would result in her incrimination and subsequent incarceration.
Or am I missing something? I've got to be missing something, because this can't be it. If you have any explanations for anything that I may have misunderstood or misinterpreted in any way, please do not hesitate to call me out. The more sense this makes, the better.