In the immediate days and weeks following the impact, the survivors remained in hiding. Everyone was too scared to come out. Additionally, the only remaining area of the world was primarily rural. The majority of the urbanized Vandar was destroyed by the asteroid.
However, many of the inhabitants of this rural zone were outlandishly paranoid about the apocalypse, and had developed fallout shelters. In particular, in one of the only urbanized areas of that side of the world (a small city named Vesta), a large shelter, known as Omni-X, held over 5,000 people.
Omni-X was a very complex shelter, as it was not only easy to house that many people. First of all, in order to prevent any exposure to even the slightest of danger, the shelter was located a whopping 4 miles below ground. Additionally, to enter, you had to enter through a series of thick, steel vault doors.
You would then take an insanely fast elevator down to the main shelter. It was divided into 50 separate colonies, each housing around a hundred people. Omni-X was owned by the
local government, so it's no surprise that they rationed it for decades worth of supplies.
However, most of this supply was held in an enormous tower-like warehouse in the center of the shelter. It was kept off limits to nearly all shelter residents (barring a select few executives and staff), except for the distribution days.
These would only occur roughly twice a month, and were utter chaos. Considering no supplies were ever accessible, practically everyone in the shelter hurried to the warehouse on distribution days. Additionally, there was no particular order or direction given on how to receive your rations and supplies, so the entire facility was a madhouse. Residents scrambled in every direction, pushing their way past shriveling elders and starving infants just to get food for themselves.
On top of all this, living conditions in Omni-X were not particularly pleasant either. All residences were crowded, cramming multiple bunk beds into a tight space in order to squeeze in as many people as possible. There were only two toilets per room, public showers, and a severe lack of living space.
And yet, despite all of the troubles that they went through to protect themselves, they still weren't fully resistant, for tragedy would soon strike.
A mammoth mole was coming.
And Omni-X was no longer safe.