You have several options to help you "salvage" your game. The first two are possible if you just keep going in the game. 1) There are several Island Events that could add to your population, so waiting for one of them to occur could help you. 2) If Aika's child is male, and you could keep both of them healthy until the child matures, you could grow your population again (they're only pixels, remember)! People have salvaged some pretty bleak-looking games.

The other possibilities depend upon your actions since the "disaster" - particularly how recently you've saved the game and how recently you've HotSynced your Palm to your PC. Since Village Sim, like most Palm applications, saves the game only when you exit, you can always perform a soft reset if something really bad happens. Depending upon how long it's been since your last save, a reset might put your game back to the way it was before the disaster. Another option is to restore the savegame file backup from your PC. It's usually located in Program Files\PalmOne (or Palm)\username\backup. Depending upon how long ago the backup was created, you may have to temporarily adjust the clock setting on your Palm.

Or you could start a new game.
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