The Builders

In a world where the old cities have crumbled to dust, the survivors of New City devote every waking hour to one purpose: building. The Research Builders, led by the veteran Markten, scour the silent ruins for forgotten schematics, hoping each fragment might resurrect a piece of the lost technology. Their aircraft glides over the sun‑blasted wasteland, landing amid the skeletal remains of once‑great metropolises, while the younger aide watches, eager to prove that the knowledge hidden in the rubble still matters.

The duo’s search is becoming a race against scarcity; genuine plans are few, and each discovery must be examined with painstaking caution. As they step into another decayed complex, they grapple with a haunting question: what will the civilization do when every usable diagram has been unearthed? Their answer, for now, is to keep building, even if the next creation may be something they never imagined.