Hokay so I've been enjoying a podcast called After Titanic, which covers how Titanic went from The Unsinkable Ship That Sunk to Cultural Touchstone by covering aaaaall the aftermath immediately after the sinking.
In the episode covering The Carpathia carrying the survivors to New York, we discuss what options were presented to Ismay by White Star, the company that owned and operated Titanic, to get the survivors on dry land quickly so they could begin recovery from their ordeal.
One of the suggestions White Star put forward was to send Titanic's identical twin sister ship, the Olympic, to pick them up and finish the journey as planned.
Ismay is reported to have physically recoiled at this suggestion, unable to even fathom what suffering would occur through doing something so cruel to the group of 700 souls who were already mostly maddened by what Just Happened. Loading them back into the lifeboats to ferry onto a ship that Looks Exactly The Same as the one their families just died on? WHAT??
But MAN that sure sounds like somethin Vault Tech would do as one of their experiments
Anywhoozit, here's a link for those who want it
