There is no way to recover from a dead settlement

this belongs in the "issues" since its frankly game breaking but i don't have git account and don't want one.

first of all: i know this is an edge case but it still resulted in a 90h save file becoming unplayable anymore.
which is EXTREMELY frustrating.


what happened (as far as i can tell + see screenshot):

i had just converted waste dumping to incineration + exhaust scrubbing which needs limestone. it was running fine so i disabled waste dumping.
i increased the game speed one level to monitor the pollution levels.
then i fell asleep for MANY HOURS :D

after waking up to a dead settlement i realized i ran out of limestone. (mine empty)-->exhaust scrubber backed up-->incinerator backed up-->people drowning in waste

i tried to recover but the last 15 people slowly died too,
i have -2.99% population growth
no unity, no way of getting settlers

as far as i can tell this savegame is dead......


suggested solution:
make beacon NOT require unity. i dont know if that would actually be enough to recover from this total apocalypse but anything else i can think of would feel like cheating

dead_settlement_agkorg.jpg