EPILOGUE

So Stew turned out to be a ‘droid.  Pretty weird to think that the very thing we need to exterminate helped us do the exterminating.  Stew was okay though; he was a “friendly.”  Turns out he was one of the first androids developed at the Ranger Center, under the guidance of Einstein’s great-great-great-great grandchildren.  Stew now lives in a littleQuonset hut outside of Vagas and shoots at desert rats all day. Big news is that he just married a pretty prototype domestic ‘droid named Stepford.

Eugene is back in his air-conditioned lab at the Ranger Center. He swears that he’ll never get stuck out in the desert again and only goes outside to take an occasional soil sample.  But if you feed him enough snake squeezins, he does admit that he had a good time on his trip, and wouldn’t trade in the experience for 30,000 crisp white lab coats.

Kate. Well, she was barbecued in the big blast.  If you have to go, a free cremation never hurts.  May she rest in desert peace.

I have a small atlas business on the side that keeps the money trickling in so I can travel and map.  I’ll have a new map series coming out on the Australian outback soon.  If you get sent there to squash an android uprising, be sure to pick it up.
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Taken from the last page (the only page I have left) of the Wasteland Survival Guide, the strategy guide for Wasteland (1987 Interplay Productions /Electronic Arts).

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