Blogcoven

I think I’m starting to go ma-a-ad. I’m scanning through Google satellite imagery looking for a defensible location to build a fortress. Of course, logic would dictate that far more motivated people than me have already done this – find a ruined castle and reuse the site.

In preparing for the zombie post apocalypse, what era should one plan to? I mean, modern ‘Green Zone’ planning, where its just precast concrete barriers, razor wire and the ‘fortified’ bit is the fact that its stuffed full of GI’s doesn’t suit. Go back and there are genuine hard-to-effect entry things like the Flaktowers of Berlin, but those were again mostly tricky because they were stuffed with motivated soldiers.

Hm… I’m seeing a theme here. I will in fact require a militia. Or a bunch of sentry guns. I’d expect ammo to get scarce after a decade or two but if I haven’t come to an accord with the local warlords (possibly by looking in the mirror) then I should have tried harder. The wizard in his tower doesn’t work against the pitchfork wielding mob. Best defense is a good offense as ever.

Self contained complex, something with a biodiesel still, a windmill, some sort of water purification that would be a good hardpoint to work out of, but its no point sitting behind walls waiting for people to leave you alone (not without beam weapons and a willingness to pull a Sauron). The provision of services/assumption of the roles of the state is textbook 4G insurgency so – prepositioning is the trick here.

Though… a decent mix of renewables running one of those origami forges and a 3D plastics extruder would be able to make flocks of drones. Hm. But explosives would be costly as would chemicals for nerve gas and the like – ah! unless I could figure out some sort of venom harvesting from things that would eat things that live out near Hazelwood – (provisional plan would be to fortify Church Island – Loch Gill being a big damn moat) so… etched graphite circuits on folded cellulose (wood, I will have) dive-bombing poison drones. Though really, if we’re going to sustainable weapons systems, then it has to be biowarfare.

Though a spare tank or two of VX to dump into the lake should it become necessary do deter restless locals would be handy. Wouldn’t be able to go out in warm weather after that, probably wouldn’t be good for the fish either. Not the best end game, really, sitting on an island in the midst of a poison lake of death.

On the basis of all this, really it would be far simpler to take over an existing pharma factory and repurpose it than try to build a combined chem-bio labworks at a new location. And so we return to the militia.

Pfft, this needs work.