Lighthouses warn ships from rocks and other land-associated perils such as other humans, living things other than humans and of course the unspeakables that lurk barely within eyesight. Over the many years of lighthouses existences they've lost their original purpose, now becoming little more than memorials of our old fears.
While there are lists of working lighthouses, thanks to advanced nautical navigational technology they are all but obsolete, only being used when things by the shorelines are particularly rough. Not the seas mind you, those charge and swell too quickly for any one lighthouse to warn against, let alone constantly maintain a signal for.
No, now the lights come on to warn sailors of the conditions on land. Are there new diseases ravaging their home countries that they may fall prey to, having been at sea since before the illnesses began? Has a new government taken hold that would endanger them or their livelihood? Are the unspeakables now speakable?
The oddest part of this, that sailors will be sure to mention only to those they can trust, is that none of the lighthouses are officially manned and some are too worn down to be physically manned yet their lights shine out, blinking and signing away their codes to the trained eyes of their sea-sailing counterparts.
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