Generations ago, builders created an underground city with supplies for 200+ years. Now the lights are failing, the storerooms are empty, and the inhabitants have forgotten why their city was built or that an outside world exists.
Models critical infrastructure nearing end-of-life: relevant to aging nuclear plants, depleted aquifers, and any system where founders' knowledge is lost while the system they built deteriorates.
Domains: Governance and Political SystemsExistential Risk and Civilizational Collapse
Scenario Types: Thought experiment / What-ifCautionary tale
Outcomes: CautionaryAspirational