Trust me there are some very important details in the story that root in the setting, just sort of think lostish with towns. This post-apocalyptic caribbean is where everyone went if they escaped. They’re worn down but not absolutely horrible. Also pirates were not very common before the setting of the story, they were sometimes thought of as myths bc they never had came to the islands. They are from another continent or chain of islands and are on a mission to harvest anything they can from every island they see.

He’s going to know, but it’s not going to stop him from doing what he has to do to survive. The other brother will not know it’s his own brother bc of his pirate pseudonym until possibly the very end he might talk to him on the radio as he basically waits to die. I want the destruction to be an h-bomb from far away so they never meet face to face