A female voice that is strong, though has a bit of hestitation. You can hear the punky undertones.
Wiki Wednesday #152 - Minami Hoshine / 星音ミナミ
Who is Minami Hoshine?
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| Official Art by Voice Provider Apparently there's better art, but I really liked this art. |
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| I still really like the aesthetic of the other art, this one is from the wiki page |
Hey there! It's Franz! I'm a fictional guy from The Fourth Millennium in a very, very sad alternate universe.
Last week, I told y'all about how there was a time rain just stopped raining. After Earth recovered from a Nuclear Winter, we were going right back to climate change. Now, I'll tell you, Mae isn't exactly a climatologist, and even in universe, I'm not as much of a scientist as I claim to be. We might both be wrong about the exact mechanisms. But the truth is that a lot of the stupidity got covered up on a systemic level.
Like I said, I was born after it started raining again. My parents were born after it started raining, and both their parents disowned them before I was born. I've read some accounts of people back when it didn't rain, but people can exaggerate.
The idea that's passed around most often if just that the perpetual clouds started too low. They were incapable of making rain, and they blocked moisture from getting to a place where it could make rain. The accounts from people who were living in real muggy parts always came off a little funny. The moisture was so dang determined to condense, just walking outside for a few minutes was like getting dragged through a shower. Give it a place to pool, and it will pool as it pleased.
Of course, no rain at all is a terrifying concept. Thankfully, we had put a lot of eggs into the wrong basket as a species. With perpetual clouds keeping us cool, greenhouse gasses became irrelevant or even wanted. The problem with changing seawater to drinking water is generally just that it takes a lot of energy to go fast. We may have run out of coal and fossil fuels, but we had methane capture systems rigged up above the cattle fields and plenty of landfills to get natural gas from. Heck, some people just planted trees for firewood to run distillation plants near rivers.
We never pumped enough from the oceans to affect the sea levels. The clouds kept everything a nice, tolerable temperature. The ice caps were gone and never coming back on any human timescale.
All the world was scrambling. Ain't no one who knew how to deal with the decision America unilaterally took. But even though they were the ones to do it, America scrambled the hardest. The government was trying to be fascist at that time, so any records that made them look bad, they destroyed. They claimed to be making old Nevada into a beautiful rain forest. How they tried and how it turned out ended up being a mystery. No one without clearance was out there at the time, and it was kept guarded from the public even after the reunification.
The way that the textbooks say they kept the Earth alive was airplanes. It was a dangerous job - getting through the perpetual clouds meant no visibility for a good while. But they flew up and dumped water on the top of the clouds. The water just sat and pooled until the sun heated it up and turned it into gasses that leaked into the clouds and then got dumped down out the bottom. Not as rain, of course, but as a foggy mist.
No one alive knows if that's the truth or if it even worked. The places saved could have just had a ton of irrigation systems put in place and taken up. The perpetual clouds are higher now. We get rain naturally now.
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