February 2015 Challenge : Troubles at Rochefort

[Ilanthar]

Very nice crater! And poor city of Rochefort

[arsheesh]

Yikes! Sucks for them. Very nice job on this Franc, a great entry!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Corilliant]

Hehe. Not a nice way to go.
Great map! I love the detail.

If I remember correctly, there was a map around a year ago which had a tropical island with a small city on it...it was hit by a meteor and the map showed the before-and-after. Anyone remember that? Now we have two cities that have been wiped out, yaaaaaay!
(That just gave me an idea for a challenge )

[Francissimo]

thanks for the feedback everyone, and cool debate about craters I've checked the link you gave jshoer really interesting! i'm doing a bit astronomy sometimes and the craters you can see on the moon illustrates well the central uplift.
a quick final update with a bit more destruction and some borders, because a map without borders is not cool
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[jshoer]

Nice! I had to toggle back and forth between the two to see whether features of the bottom map were pre-existing, or the result of the event. And that, after all, is the point!

[jbgibson]

I'm always willing to stretch a rationalization to fit an interesting map or fiction scenario. Maybe instead of a standard meteorite it was a tiny fleck of antimatter - i could imagine that as being more of a bomb-like effect than a kinetic impact crater. Maybe even a different penetration amount.

As for the flattening of buildings - yeah, ground-shake and atmospheric shock would probably pulverize or knock over anything other than reinforced bunker-style buildings anywhere on this map. But what if the second map was long enough after the event that there has been some rebuilding? Foundations might survive and surviving people might stubbornly insist on setting their town back up instead of starting over elsewhere. Maybe Rochefort was actually *less* devastated than other cities - if it got nailed by a meteor, what's to say a hundred other cities didn't get hit as well? Mind you, if a whole bunch of cities get impacted, the writer in me is already devising a plot where the meteors were *aimed*, not random :-).... There's a decent-sized island to the southwest - maybe another meteor struck out in the ocean and Rochefort was one of the few coastal places that was not inundated by a tsunami.

Also, the city of Rochefort proper is off to the east a few kilometers; this peninsula is just a suburb.... maybe the city mostly survived and what these maps show is how the cratered area is being redeveloped.

Ha - maybe this isn't a meteor strike at all. The map could be titled "Why we do not permit citizens to perform antimatter research in their basements".