Shelter
Base Layer Thermal Set
The layer against your skin, moving moisture away from it. Cotton here is the classic mistake.
Scenario
Outside is minus eighty. Inside is politics.
The attempt to cool the planet worked far too well. What is left of the species lives in a sealed volume that must keep moving, and the entire remaining supply of everything is inside it, allocated by people who are not you.
What kills you
The cold outside, and the queue inside.
Rules
The book behind it
Lob, Rochette and Legrand, 1982
The French graphic novel the film adapts, and a bleaker machine than Bong's. Worth reading for how much of the train's geography the film took directly from the page.
Heat you keep costs nothing. Heat you generate costs food.
The layer against your skin, moving moisture away from it. Cotton here is the classic mistake.
A hot drink eight hours after you made it is worth more than it sounds.
Keeps a hot drink hot through a night shift. Vacuum seal quality is the whole product.
Extremities go first, and they go quietly.
Single-use exothermic packets, hours of heat in a pocket. They need air to activate.
Nothing is being manufactured. Everything you own has to be repaired instead.
Needle, thread and buttons for repairing clothing and fabric gear.
Weighs nothing, costs nothing, and works by physics rather than optimism.
Metallised sheets that reflect radiated body heat. Very light, very loud, single use in practice.
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