I Simulated Life After an Alien Invasion

Five years after the invasion, a small community in Mozambique is still calling for anyone who can hear them. There are machines inside the growth around the landed ship, and it is getting closer to their homes.

I wanted to follow the people who survived Part 1. How do you find each other when the internet is gone? How do you rebuild anything when the land you need is slowly being taken over? This time we hear it from the survivors, through their radio calls, local broadcasts and the messages they manage to pass between settlements.

Would you keep trying to defend your home, or leave before you know there is somewhere else to go?

Watch Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVIwvywuQpQ

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Thank you to everyone who recorded voices for this video: Solon, heschter, Humanidades, DeadTried

And to Commander 10K, Lewis Foy and TabBuddie for supporting the channel.

This is a fictional scenario. The research informed the geography, shelters and radio communications. The alien growth, technology and events are written for the story. Voices include community recordings and synthetic speech.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Previously
01:09 We are still here

SOURCES AND MAP CREDITS

Emergency radio and message relays: ARRL ARES and National Traffic System.
https://www.arrl.org/ares
https://nts2.arrl.org/radiogram/

Shelter background: Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection and Finland's Ministry of the Interior.
https://www.babs.admin.ch/en/shelters-for-the-population
https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/1410869/finland-has-civil-defence-shelters-for-about-4.8-million-people

Satellite land imagery: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium. CC BY 4.0. Historical annual composites were cropped and assembled with fictional overlays.
https://esa-worldcover.org/en/data-access
https://registry.opendata.aws/esa-worldcover-vito-composites/

Ocean background: NASA Earth Observatory, Blue Marble: Next Generation, August 2004, Reto Stöckli, via NASA GIBS. Part 1 recap uses the March 2004 image and EOxCloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017), CC BY 4.0.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/blue-marble-next-generation/base-topography-bathymetry/
https://cloudless.eox.at

Population geography: Schiavina, M., Freire, S., Carioli, A. and MacManus, K. GHS-POP R2023A, 2020 epoch. European Commission, Joint Research Centre. CC BY 4.0. Aggregated and adapted into fictional survivor and death distributions.
https://doi.org/10.2905/JRC.CXKEDRR
Methods: Pesaresi et al. (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2024.2390454

Geography: Natural Earth, public domain. Catchments: BasinATLAS / HydroATLAS, Linke et al. (2019), CC BY 4.0. Adapted to constrain the illustrated spread.
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0300-6
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Terrain: Mapzen / Tilezen. Underlying terrain credits: ArcticDEM, created from DigitalGlobe imagery with NSF awards 1043681, 1559691 and 1542736. Australia © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017. Austria © offene Daten Österreichs, DGM Österreich. Canada contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Europe produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the EU, EU-DEM layers. Global ETOPO1: NOAA. Mexico: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016. New Zealand: Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New Zealand and the New Zealand Government, all rights reserved. Norway © Kartverket. UK © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015, all rights reserved. US 3DEP and global GMTED2010 and SRTM data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
https://github.com/tilezen/joerd/blob/master/docs/attribution.md

Blender environments use assets from BlenderKit and Poly Haven. Swiss mountain backdrop: Jamcib, Vallée de Viège, public domain. Modified for the fictional scene.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vall%C3%A9e_de_Vi%C3%A8ge.JPG
https://polyhaven.com/license

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