Lore, trivia, and other important info regarding the big building featured in a story project I'm working on.
Showing posts with label Driving crew. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Some history on the building's railways

Because the collection of robots is a slow process, throughout the few years that the building has been active, the railway system had been short on driver bots for a while. This caused there to be people and even other robots that had no knowledge on driving to learn to work the trains. This situation obviously eased over time.

The railway system

The building is so massive that there are railway systems inside.

On about every floor, there is usually a total of four drivers and there are two active drivers per floor. Therefore, there are two trains per floor. This is so the waiting interval between train arrival times isn't too long. The wait is usually about 10 minutes. 

Since there are fifteen floors in the entire building, there are a total of 30 trains and it is recommended for there to be about 60 driver bots in total. (Wow!) This is quite much considering the lack of actual population inside the building. Often, the trains are empty and usually carry a maximum of about three groups, unless otherwise.

Most driver bots usually stick to spending 12 hours per day driving, making there two active from say, 00:00 to 11:59 and another two active from 12:00 to 23:59. All the driver bots are naturally organised and are big communicators, so things usually run smoothly.

Does the building have a name?

Well, no, not really. Although, the region that the building is in is called "Proclia". So, I guess that's why some dwellers l...