Lore, trivia, and other important info regarding the big building featured in a story project I'm working on.
Showing posts with label Work & services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work & services. Show all posts

Monday, February 8, 2021

The Music Rooms

A collection of rooms where all the musical instruments are stored and music is recorded. The instruments are usually either donated from original holders or scavenged from dumps. So that there's plenty, some of the instruments are cloned, as well.

The MIDI bots live in rooms close by here and sometimes play live in the recording studio to broadcast across the building. People who aren't MIDI bots are also free to broadcast their own music if they want, too.

About anyone, machine and organism alike, are allowed to casually spend their time here, too. The walls are totally soundproof, so they can play music at any time of the day, as loud and for as long as they want.

Sunday, February 7, 2021

The library

A place full of shelves and boxes of media either scavenged, donated, stolen, or printed.

It is a medium-sized library and spreads across floors 7, 8 & 9.

The service bot that keeps track of the library's contents is Barquo Dreida.

Archived in the library includes:
  • Fiction books (novels, comics, picture books, etc.)
  • Non-fiction books (a, textbooks, (auto)biographies, diaries & journals, logs, etc.)
  • Hard drives (audio, documents, pictures, videos, etc.)
  • Misc. (Discs, motion picture, media players, etc.)

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Farqua's daily routine

Farqua is the horticulturalist robot that works on the rooftop gardens.

00:00 - 05:59 - Charging or doing whatever
06:00 - 07:59 - Morning deliveries
08:00 -18:59 - Harvesting + tending gardens, and other important things
19:00 - 20:59 - Evening deliveries
21:00 - 23:59 - Charging or doing whatever

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.

Trade

In the building, there isn't any currency system, and since robots do a good majority of the work there, barely any of the organic life do much service work, too.
When it comes to paying people back for favours and stuff related, I kinda think of it how it would be for siblings that are still living under their parent(s)'s work (from experience). You know, the whole "I do this for you, you do something worth that amount for me back," or some "I got you this, you get me that," sort of negotiation.

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...