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I can pull it down if you want, but it will make the badlands more dangerous in terms of leftover radiation.
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I think the only other way to have characters who have an emotional attachment to our current characters is do a "Cable" (someone from this future goes back in time and raises the children in the future).  It would make sense in context because when the children probably would be born would be in the end of the "Age of Heroes".