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Silo One Communications Room

Silo One’s communications room houses voice-masked radio links and surveillance equipment; its lone operator reports a faulty microphone when Charlotte arrives.

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The Silo One communications room links silo oversight to remote observation and conversation. Its equipment includes fifty numbered headset receptacles. During Silo Twelve’s collapse, four men crowded a station normally occupied by one operator. The room later handled Paul Thurman’s call to Silo 18 while displaying the shadow’s physiological responses, and its screens showed footage of a suited person moving away from an outside camera. It also provides remote access to Silo 18’s camera feeds.

Voice-processing software makes operators sound alike, preventing silo heads from recognizing changes between personnel and shifts. Donald Keene has repeatedly cleared the operators out to make private calls. After hearing the disaster over her own radio, Charlotte expects this room to contain a microphone she can use to complete her transmitter.

When Charlotte enters, a lone radio operator staffs the room. Roughly six radios sit on U-shaped workbenches. The operator reports that radio number two has a sticky microphone button and says the previous technician advised continuing to use it until it failed.

Appearance

The room has fifty numbered headset receptacles and roughly six radios on U-shaped workbenches, alongside screens used for footage and physiological responses.

Role

A communications and monitoring center for contact with other silos, with software that conceals changes in the identity of its speakers.

Relationships

Donald Keene — Donald Keene clears the operators out to hold private calls here.
Paul Thurman — The room handled Paul Thurman’s call to Silo 18 and displayed physiological responses during it.
Charlotte — Charlotte enters while a lone operator is on duty and hears about radio number two’s sticky microphone button.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 6 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 26
  • Donald uses the communications room for private calls after clearing out the operators.
Chapter 37
  • Charlotte expects the comm room to have a microphone she can use for her radio.
Chapter 38
  • The comm room is staffed by a lone radio operator when Charlotte enters.
  • The comm room has roughly six radios on U-shaped workbenches.
  • The operator reports a sticky microphone button on radio number two.
  • The operator says the previous technician advised using the faulty microphone until it failed.
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