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it sounds like the HPI is on borrowed time.
Not just studies. The Lamb In a Bag goes back far enough from normal birth time, that theres only a couple weeks or so between the latest they can keep a lamb feotus alive from fertilisation before implantation is needed. Close that gap, and it will be as big a step as Dolly.
The satelite tracking of the Pirate storms is extremely useful, but depends on how long those satelites are going to last, and what capabilities there could be in replacing them, given any tech will be just as old and in need of refurbishment by that time, if not new built. But that would lead to Redstones, which not only can be 3D printed, but carbon fibre makes a largeer payload to orbit, and given the biggest Redstone payload was Mercury, thats a good couple ton?
But what other human artifacts are available, any Victorean or Modern items that have had the belief and following of however many humans for however many years in total to ensure their Belief? Could Herbie Ride Again?
HPI with a Zumwalt-class ship? How will they be able to go on deck without becoming a crispy critter?
By general rule of thumb, I've settled on about five years before most satellite-based systems start experiencing issues. There is a big difference in orbit decay between LEO, MEO and geostationary systems if I recall correctly. So, still not long enough for the matter to arise in-story.
That said, I have thought about it. Payload shouldn't be something the likes of the HPI has any trouble crafting, the matter is launching and recovering launchers. So here I'm a bit drawn. The HPI still has two facilities officially: the one in North America, and an undisclosed Asian facility about which I only left the detail that they had suffered casualties and mutations in the Event, but not to the point that they became inoperational.
But let's not forget they started off as a NASA offshoot at the height of the space race. They know their rockets.
Way I see it:
Option 1: They finish updating their shield tech and take over a space center on their own. Baikonur, Cape Canaveral, the choice is there. Then if they set up an outpost of sorts with the proper shielding, they can operate launchers.
Option 2: Similar, but using the WSU's sailors as third parties. Just use SpaceX's brand of rocketry and prepare a full launcher with payload on a train. Rhine Forest grabs the rocket and moves down to the proper latitude to launch it from a barge, recover the rocket, takes it back to the rail yard in Savannah. No need for an outpost.
So there are options.
Let's just say if any poor sod reappears inside the likes of the Louvres or the British Museum by accident... they're gonna have quite the experience. Not so much the paintings, but they best avoid the Egyptian gallery.
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Not from the get-go they wouldn't. I'm not saying they would be able to have it from the start because their shield tech was abysmal at the time. Still is, but they're improving it. Let them finish mounting personal shield units on their exoskeletons, tune up the safezone-type shield, and only then could they possibly have a chance to pull it off.
USS Zumwalt only left Bath for her sea trials in December 2015. In story that means she was still being fitted when the Event occured. The gist of it is the same as the submariners from Kings Bay: grab an unattended ship and fix it up to get some mobility. They don't actually have a Zumwalt-class ready right now in-story.
The difference between the two is that the HPI might be one of the only organization that has the tech level to finish the project, and probably outfit it with the shields, generators and weapon systems that would raise the Zumwalt above the abysmal failure of a project it actually is.
Aight. Rambling over folks.