I reckon the controller is a reasonable guy in reasonable times, bearing in mind that he might not have even been aware of his role until very late in the day , the pressures and responsibilities I think would be enough to drive any person to make rash decisions that in the cold light of day were plain wrong, ie the baby decision, wrong decision yes, bad person no.
As for the constable I actually twigged it as it was written by mcragge1, but I was left with the impression that maybe the shop keeper was telling the truth that they had died through natural causes, not that we or the constable would ever know but it would be a nice twist.
There was a bit of talk about the film threads a few pages back, I'm so glad that I wasn't the only one that was disturbed by that film. Whenever I read what I term post-apocalyptic fiction I try and work out where I would have been and if I would have survived, I was between Edinburgh and Glasgow so would have survived the exchange , but I was 3 so the chances were radiation sickness or disease would have killed me.
mcragge1
Again I will say that I am absolutely hooked on this time line, I especially like the way that you take on other posters ideas and weave them in to the story (ie the scavenger groups looking for food). I was going to mention though have you considered putting the story into a text file and adding it as a attachment, its been done in the Cuban missile crisis timeline, it would help new comers catch up with the story without having to pick their way through the rest of the posts, my mate is trying to do this at the minute.
P.S
Is the next parts of the updates of the prosspero mission and the controllers plight far off? and will we get to meet the destroyer crew from Austrilia, I bet they have had some adventures.