36. "RE: H2G2: The Fleet of Fog"
In response to message #6
>To me, the neat thing about leaving them where they were (so to speak) >is that a lot of people in the 25th century, in particular, aren't >accustomed to thinking of planets' oceans, unless they're fishermen or >in the bulk surface shipping business. For ordinary people, outer >space has kind of taken over that mental pigeonhole, as the thing you >have to cross to get from place to place - everything's sort of >psychologically scaled up in an era of commonplace interstellar >travel. So for a Mysterious Alien(?) Threat to have appeared that >treated them as a priority - well, it's just weird. Like the >submarine UFOs in X-COM: Terror from the Deep, or the kaiju in >Pacific Rim coming from the sea. Nobody expects that, and the >effect is exaggerated in a routine-spaceflight sci-fi setting.
The X-COM reference now makes me wonder if the UF X-COM Initiative (assuming it existed) had any greater luck against the Fog than the WDF did. And if so, what happened to the records?