>>95291762>the citadelWhen the Ricks returned to repair the citadel, their home looks very different from just months before. The disruption of industry and shipping means that megaseeds no longer travel from farms to the citadel. People know that the canned goods they have hoarded will not last long. Water and sewage system remained still broken down. Sewage build-up in the utility tunnels added to the threat of plague and famine in Morty Town. Stray Mortys had fled the settlement, those that could, first in cars, then on foot. Troops of Mortygees plunger nearby habitats and still active portal arrays for food and fuel, then move on. Mortys that have gotten 'too big for their breeches' had to be put down, along with any rogue Ricks that resisted. Some managed to but not everyone could leave. Those with different priorities demanded that they stay in the city to rebuild. They follow a grim economy: New edicts were issued to outlaw technologies with easily exploitable security measures that would threaten citadel safety. Portal gun technology was both monitored and heavily regulated, with isolation creating a commodity and labour based economy. (AIs cannot be trusted for certain jobs, they can be subverted by unscrupulous people with specialised knowledge. Of course, there are some jobs that cannot be trusted to them either.)
Within the citadel, Ricks labour to build a strong haven for their Rick overlords and rebuild their amenities to which they had been accustomed to--this is where we are in-story when the episode begins. Their society having been rebuild, but with a lot of the chronic backstabbing societal baggage. You get that with one to three people. It only takes one person with a self-defeating attitude on a self-destructive downward spiral.
