Climate change
Oct. 10th, 2019 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengr"So, Mr. Smith. Please explain why climate change is a reason for an urgent meeting of *this* department?"
"Yes sir. The Defense department and NOAA did a study on climate change with regards to how it would affect strategic resources, possible conflicts, etc. As part of this they examined all areas with certain codings, even if they weren't cleared for *why* they word coded or what the code was about. This included a number of areas our department is responsible for."
Smith paused. Everyone was looking at him with a "And how does this concern us?" look.
"The results were forwarded to all agencies who were concerned with the coded areas. Our computers red-flagged two in Antarctica. Some of the sub-glacial lakes that connect to Lake Vostok, and a certain valley between a couple of mountain ranges."
Looks of concern started to appear on some of the faces around the table.
"Yes, the valley discovered by the 1930 Deyer expedition. The one containing the frozen Elder Race specimens and the entrance to the caverns."
One person interrupted, "and why is this a concern?"
"Sir, the report says that those locations will thaw in the coming decades. That means we'll have *active* members of the Elder Race running around. As well as the likelihood that shoggoths will be willing to leave the caverns. And since those lakes are the 'underground seas' that the Elder Race retreated to that means the ones that have been active there, under the ice will have access to the surface again."
Much consternation resulted.
As things setlled down a bit another person asked for the floor.
She began, "The alert caused my office to take another look at the info from the Deyer expedition and such photos as robot probes and gotten in later years. The ones that could be safely viewed that is."
"We now believe that one of the reasons they were willing to reolocate to those lakes was that there's another colony of them in the solar system. Namely in the oceans of Europa..."
(note: a heavily fictionalized account of the Deyer expedition was leaked to the world as "At the Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft)
"Yes sir. The Defense department and NOAA did a study on climate change with regards to how it would affect strategic resources, possible conflicts, etc. As part of this they examined all areas with certain codings, even if they weren't cleared for *why* they word coded or what the code was about. This included a number of areas our department is responsible for."
Smith paused. Everyone was looking at him with a "And how does this concern us?" look.
"The results were forwarded to all agencies who were concerned with the coded areas. Our computers red-flagged two in Antarctica. Some of the sub-glacial lakes that connect to Lake Vostok, and a certain valley between a couple of mountain ranges."
Looks of concern started to appear on some of the faces around the table.
"Yes, the valley discovered by the 1930 Deyer expedition. The one containing the frozen Elder Race specimens and the entrance to the caverns."
One person interrupted, "and why is this a concern?"
"Sir, the report says that those locations will thaw in the coming decades. That means we'll have *active* members of the Elder Race running around. As well as the likelihood that shoggoths will be willing to leave the caverns. And since those lakes are the 'underground seas' that the Elder Race retreated to that means the ones that have been active there, under the ice will have access to the surface again."
Much consternation resulted.
As things setlled down a bit another person asked for the floor.
She began, "The alert caused my office to take another look at the info from the Deyer expedition and such photos as robot probes and gotten in later years. The ones that could be safely viewed that is."
"We now believe that one of the reasons they were willing to reolocate to those lakes was that there's another colony of them in the solar system. Namely in the oceans of Europa..."
(note: a heavily fictionalized account of the Deyer expedition was leaked to the world as "At the Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft)
