New Eden - City of Tomorrow!

The adverts have been around for a while. Nothing big and showy, just cropping up here and there around town. Everyone resident in New Eden knows that the surface contains a theme park, of course, underneath the surface dome, but normally it was only functioning when people visited.

The posters and adverts had, however, been proclaiming that today the theme park would be fully functioning. All day and well into the night it would be fully staffed by robots. Come and see all the fun of the fair. Win prizes for your sweetheart! Ride the carousel and the ferris wheel! Dare to brave the haunted house! Scream with delight on the big dipper! Eat your fill of cotton candy, popcorn and candied apples!

More people then normal head for the surface, the crowds thronging round as the lights flash and music plays. Enough people remained below - the adverts hadn't attracted everyone.

As dusk falls, abruptly all the robots stop. Just freeze in place. The rides still work, the sounds and lights still function. Below, in New Eden itself, the same occurs. All robots cease to function. The only robots - above or below ground - that don't shut down are the Connies, who will remain unaffected.

It isn't immediately clear to those above what has happened - or that there is a problem to those below. Then there are no robots to control the rides. No robots to check the safeties. Accidents can happen. People may get hurt.

There are no robots to operate the train that takes people from the surface to the city below. No way for those on the surface to get home again. They are trapped.

Communication devices still work - voice and text - but the usual routes from the surface to New Eden are cut off.

[Note: this event will last over the in-game course of at least several days.]