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The original was posted on /r/siloseries by /u/ElectronicSyllabub32 on 2023-09-11 20:51:47.

The area immediately outside the silos is a wasteland. We learn this is true, not just a camera trick. We’re told it’s because the nanobots keep being released during cleanings to keep that area toxic and keep everyone inside for the full 500 years. The cleaning nanobots are the same ones that were released during the initial apocalypse. Thurman at one point talks about how Iran was engineering nanobots that could take out an entire race, and how designing them to take out an entire species was actually much easier. This led me to believe that the nanobots only targeted humans, which is why Juliette and her crew find a lovely, seemingly untouched world full of wildlife and animals outside the toxic dome.

My question is: How is outside the nanobot dome thriving with life but inside the dome isn’t? If the nanobots DID target more than just humans, then why are there still animals? Why don’t any animals wander into the dome and in front of the cameras? If we say that maybe not ALL plant and wildlife died in the initial apocalpyse and nature has had a chance to recover in 250 years, A. Is that enough time? and B. How would the seeds in the above ground storage facility still be viable?