[OOC][PLOT] The Seventh Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals

[robkelk]

(GnP ships)

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The southern oceans would probably be the only place to escape detection, but gosh, I can't see these being secret longer than a week without cloaking devices.

We only need two or three days - a week is more than enough. And the map on the "Places" page on the wiki has no map markers south of the equator at the moment, so...

I found a place to have them show up: Point Nemo, the "oceanic pole of inaccessibility".

It's so far from land (and the closest land is either the chain that Easter Island is in, the Pitcarin Islands, or Antarctica) that the closest inhabited land mass is over six times farther away than is the International Space Station, when the ISS is directly overhead. NASA and Roskosmos dump old satellites there because there's no chance of hitting anyone.

It's caught inside the South Pacific Gyre, a current that keeps nutrients from getting close (it doesn't keep plastic wastes out, though), so the fishing's almost nonexistent.

There's no reason to go anywhere near the place by boat or plane, and no reason to stay if you do go there. It's a perfect place to dump really big ships into the Metacontinuity.

However, Lovecraft put R'lyeh nearby. Hmmmmm... carrier-borne tanks versus a Great Old One...