[LIVE BROADCAST] - PRIVATE Mud-Soaked Step, Last Strike

MSS: I hope I'm not burdening you, but could I trouble you to talk about something?
MSS: You might even find it interesting. It's to do with recent happenings in my vicinity.
LS: I have time.
LS: What happened?
MSS: I sent an overseer out to survey this site recently. It's a sorrowful happening. You should be receiving the images now.
LS: Oh my!
LS: This is incredible! I have yet to catalogue a failure so complete.
LS: The non-starters rarely reach this stage of the process. The iterator is nearly functional!
MSS: From imaging of the inside - it should be near the end of the package - I'm led to believe that they were moments from activating it.
LS: Ha ha. Then this wasn’t an equipment failure.
LS: How wasteful!
MSS: It seems to have amounted to an interpersonal issue. A breakdown of communications, as it were.
LS: Well, that is entirely illogical. If they had yet to overcome even the most base of vices, they would have valued their own comfort over whatever petty squabble it was.
LS: After all, the iterator would have at least made them comfortable.
LS: But, clearly, even that was not a priority.
MSS: Their last days would have been spent in abject misery - they could contact any number of surrounding cities for help, but none could possibly get through the wastes.
MSS: They would have picked through the lifeless husk until their supplies ran dry...
LS: It’s been quite a while since something like this has occurred, hasn’t it?
LS: But it wasn’t so dire a mistake back then, either ~
MSS: And when their hopeless end caught up with them at last, they would surely have been grateful for its coming.
MSS: It leads me to reflect on how fragile we truly are.
MSS: That such a vast construction could fall apart based on a petty conflict between its most inconsequential parts...
MSS: It could have been you or I, were our fortunes simply a fraction worse.
MSS: We will never know who this desolate ruin may have become.
LS: How fascinating. And now time has taken its toll with neither citizen nor iterator maintenance, so restoring whoever this was would be non-trivial.
LS: That wrecked terminal - don't tell me they ran out of spare parts for the "on" button?
LS: To, essentially, the factory that could create anything they needed?
LS: Truly extraordinary. My deepest thanks to you for sharing.
MSS: I appreciate the amount of humour you can find in this truly depressing situation.
LS: You are most welcome.