Skade
Explorer
UnDfind said:
Long story.
There are several short answers. The oceans are one the few places we have not really damaged in the conflicts of the last few years. Much of the coastal regions are severely damaged, and exploration and attempts to make viable habitats beneath the sea became a focus of much of the worlds powers. Many ask why? The cost is prohibitive. There must be an ulterior motive. There is. No one is quite sure, but many cospiracy theorists claim that the US's Tiamat
D) probe discovered evidence of past civilization not on mars, but Io. Additionally, there is reason to belive that the government also believes there is a stable wormhole in the vicinity, one that must be produced not by nature but abandoned tech of an ancient, and now extinct race. These theorists claim that the world on the other side is aquatic, and in order to colonize our governments must explore the necessary tech here. It is hoped that by the time we can really send a manned mission to IO we will have perfected the other tech necessary for such an experiment
No one knows if its true. I won't say whether it is or not, not even to those who have played.
Th other reason is much more mundane. New species of plantlife and fish have produced medical technology that before was beyond our reach. With genetic manipulation becoming more and more widespread, we can adapt ourselves to the rigors of aquatic research, and perhaps find some way to repair what we have done to our planet.
Many of the broken toys left behind from the wars sign up with exploration companies seeking something besides killing. Someties they find it in those deep black waters, and sometimes they find something much darker than their own scarred souls.
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