[ Root's sarcastic quip may well be true, but that's a good enough reason where Miller is concerned. He smirks at Shaw, whose remark is perhaps the saving grace in allowing this conversation to remain lighthearted banter as Root presses further. ]
Like I said, we hardly have a surplus of parts to choose from. We're just making do. But okay— [How should he put this? ] —it's for fighting mutants. I don't know what the year is for you back home, but where I am concerned, July of 2013 is the anniversary of Armageddon. A worldwide exchange of nuclear missiles. That was over twenty years ago and the radiation has transformed the surface of the earth.
[ It's really a long fucking story. ]
My people live in the metro, underground, but those who are physically able will go to the surface to collect resources. That is my job.
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Like I said, we hardly have a surplus of parts to choose from. We're just making do. But okay— [How should he put this? ] —it's for fighting mutants. I don't know what the year is for you back home, but where I am concerned, July of 2013 is the anniversary of Armageddon. A worldwide exchange of nuclear missiles. That was over twenty years ago and the radiation has transformed the surface of the earth.
[ It's really a long fucking story. ]
My people live in the metro, underground, but those who are physically able will go to the surface to collect resources. That is my job.