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Published: 2013-01-15 21:57:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 6346; Favourites: 122; Downloads: 68
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Description On the southernmost tip of mainland South America sits a city like many others, shared by dozens of corporations that have built many superskyscrapers and arcologies over the eras. The city also hosts one of the ends of the AUC's Silk Road superhighway, which connects all five continents.

What makes this city special is the enormous bridge that dominates its skyline, extending even above the corporate superskyscrapers. The sheer size of the bridge makes it less a transport method and more a fully self-contained city with access to geothermal power and hydroponics. However, many areas of the long bridge have collapsed and larger tracts are deemed unfit for occupation owing to the threat of further collapse. This, of course, makes them a hive of fugitives, militiamen, terrorists and other criminals who hole themselvs up in the structurally weak portions of the bridge, where no one dares going. However, these points are routinely patrolled by aircraft, such as this IA-58 Pucara, to gather intelligence and keep an eye on things.

The bridge is long enough to connect Valentyns Bay, former Argentina, to the Falklands and then the antarctic mainland. On top of it sits a derelict 8-lane road, which, hauntingly, are all full of ancient abandoned cars and trucks on what appears to have been a traffic jam that extended for miles, as if a large evacuation or human displacement had taken place. No bodies or trace of those people remain, though all their baggage and personal items can be found. Over the years, the huge ammount of vehicles and personal items were gradually looted away by scavengers, at least in the portions of the bridge the closest to the city. The eery abandoned traffic jam, however, still remains untouched -albeit corroded by the sea- on large tracts of the bridge.

Large portions of the bridge have collapsed into the ocean and others have been demolished by the AUC to allow safe passage for ships, meaning that the lenght of the bridge can no longer be explored on foot. Expeditions by air and sea continue, especially to the South Pole where the bridge touches land again and seemingly ends suddenly, without any architectural feature on the other side. This has earned the bridge its popular name, the Bridge to Nowhere.
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Heart-und-Seoul [2016-05-18 15:11:13 +0000 UTC]

That's a heck of a view they got...

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VoughtVindicator In reply to Heart-und-Seoul [2016-05-18 16:37:59 +0000 UTC]

Good for tourism, something else to do in Patagonia than looking at glaciers and penguins

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weter29 [2013-12-02 14:03:14 +0000 UTC]

Β IA-58 Pucara Π‘Π£ΠŸΠ•Π !

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Katamariguy [2013-01-16 12:01:04 +0000 UTC]

What caused its abandonment?

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VoughtVindicator In reply to Katamariguy [2013-01-17 00:08:45 +0000 UTC]

It was already abandoned when the place got occupied again and built up by the corporations, so nobody knows

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wbyrd [2013-01-16 06:31:02 +0000 UTC]

great pic, and a really interesting back history to go with it

I imagine the place has to be rather hostile to salvagers, or some bright boy with a few brains, and some heavy equipment would have mined it away to nothing for materials.

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VoughtVindicator In reply to wbyrd [2013-01-17 00:11:33 +0000 UTC]

Oh, indeed, though like any abandoned arcology there's a few valuable artifacts hidden under the mountains of junk, and more than enough people to try and get them

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wbyrd In reply to VoughtVindicator [2013-01-17 01:35:02 +0000 UTC]

Just the sort of place that is the perfect setting for stories, games, and artwork....

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bobcatt [2013-01-15 23:17:52 +0000 UTC]

hope never haeve prop failure or eject wne flat spin..

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VoughtVindicator In reply to bobcatt [2013-01-16 00:43:32 +0000 UTC]

what?

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bobcatt In reply to VoughtVindicator [2013-01-16 04:15:06 +0000 UTC]

[link] props tends to shatters sometimes and end up sending shrapnel in the fuselage.
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yeah not really want to have one come unglued next to you..

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RDFAF [2013-01-15 22:57:37 +0000 UTC]

What a dump.

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VoughtVindicator In reply to RDFAF [2013-01-15 23:03:46 +0000 UTC]

What dump?

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RDFAF In reply to VoughtVindicator [2013-01-15 23:22:45 +0000 UTC]

The weak parts of the bridge.

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VoughtVindicator In reply to RDFAF [2013-01-15 23:31:17 +0000 UTC]

Ah, yeah, sort of a 800m-high favela that is even more structurally unsound and inhabited by basically nothing but crooks.

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RDFAF In reply to VoughtVindicator [2013-01-15 23:35:32 +0000 UTC]

Like I said.

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VoughtVindicator In reply to RDFAF [2013-01-15 23:53:06 +0000 UTC]

Thus the occasional incursion or strafing run by corporate forces to keep the undesirables in check, which only further fucks up the bridge

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RDFAF In reply to VoughtVindicator [2013-01-16 00:10:25 +0000 UTC]

Surprise, surprise.

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