Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25176701-20141115151337/@comment-90.211.79.49-20150213015809

2.31.83.187 wrote: A City of Lights... I wondered about this myself. However, you guys are missing what would be a huge gap in the storyline's history. According to the "advanced" sensors on the former Ark, there were no modern civilisations left. They knew about Mount Weather as that faciltiy was built for that sort of "nuclear, end of world" senario. Not only that, but any "City of Lights" would have been clearly seen from their orbit (and pondered on for decades at the least). They would have tried to make contact by radio and most importantly; the situation of "we are the only humans left" would not have been played out.

A city like that would have stood out like a beacon to ALL peoples on the eastern seaboard as well, being as the Earth itself was entirely devoid of artifical electric lighting. The Grounders would have known a lot more about it too. Especially if it were the size some people here are hoping it would be, with several thousand if not a hundred thousand peoples. New Vegas or the even the powerful New California Republic comes to mind (if anyone is familar with the Fallout game series).

To be honest. if a nuclear war like this actually happened there would still be millions of people (if not billions) inhabiting the earth 200+ years later. You only need to look at the continents not named "North America, Europe or Russia, China, India, etc." Basically most of the non-nuclear armed nations. idea here about the origin of the light aspect of the city, as a shattered ruin of a former city it would have large amounts of glass and metal which would reflect the suns/moons light, plus nuclear war has been known to fuse the stone in buildings and other stone objects into a glass like state, furthering the reflective surfaces, imagine how cool a crystalized ruin of a city would look, explains how it can be seen as amazing to people on the ground but be unseen from orbit