We all pay rent to conglomerates to live in underground tunnels, day runners are the underclass, they scout top side for select and necessary items. They die from the heat, quite often.
Diggers are the working class. Expanding the tunnels where the academics say it’s safe and possible.
The intellectual elites are geologists and structural engineers and the indoor farming class who fight mass starvation. We try to take spirings and water sources, but they’re dangerous to mine around, so we mostly use day runners.
Anyone who is new, and unskilled must work for the colony and sleep nearest the cave mouth.
The elites have artificial sun light and climate control, and first pick of the food. They eat most of the food, actually.
This is our future. Most don’t get this far.
I love it, i would just rename day runner in night runner, ad obviously the best moment to send scouts in an overheating planet is at night. You can still make it dangerous by adding night predators that roam the surfaces now, like dogs, bugs etc…
Even at night it’s too hot. Day running is safer because of the exact reasons you stated. We can do things about the heat. Rest often, move shade to shade, drink water. But the dogs at night travel in packs, the bugs in colonies. Only the military moves at night, and they don’t take chances with anyone.
sounds bit like Silo
Just to be clear, you’re an actual time-traveler and this is factual, right?
