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Silo Forty

Silo Forty is a disconnected silo that Donald says remained standing; he suspects a quiet, bloodless revolution defeated its controls.

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Anna Thurman said Silo Forty lost communications about a year earlier, its camera feeds disappearing gradually before contact with its heads ended. She suspected a rogue IT head had contacted surrounding silos without permission, and said Erskine authorized shutdown under The Order. Reports attributed a system hack to Forty, and its failsafes had been severed before the cameras went dark. Attempts to terminate it appeared unsuccessful as other silos also disappeared from view.

Anna later said Forty had hacked the master system and cut several facilities off from Silo One. Donald associated the trouble with a bomb that shook dust from overhead pipes, while the ranking report listed Forty as N/A. Paul Thurman believed it had already been dealt with before Donald’s shift. Donald instead suspected that its inhabitants first disabled the demolition bombs, disabled the gas lines, and manipulated the camera feeds to conceal events inside before cutting those feeds.

Donald now says Forty remained standing despite Anna’s claim that it had been destroyed. He suspects a quiet, bloodless revolution, but the nature of that revolution remains his interpretation rather than a witnessed account.

Role

A disconnected silo associated with a reported hack that cut several facilities off from Silo One. Its apparent defeat of termination measures challenges the controllers’ account of its destruction.

Relationships

Silo One — According to Anna Thurman, Forty hacked the master system and cut several facilities off from Silo One.
Anna Thurman — Anna Thurman reported the loss of contact and suspected a rogue IT head; Donald now disputes her claim that Forty was destroyed.
Erskine — According to Anna, Erskine authorized Forty’s shutdown under the Order.
Paul Thurman — Paul Thurman believed Forty had already been dealt with before Donald’s shift.

Earlier in this series

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Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 12
  • Silo 40 is among the silos listed as N/A in the ranking report.
Chapter 32
  • Thurman believes silo forty had already been dealt with before Donald began his shift.
  • Donald suspects silo forty hacked its camera feeds to hide what was happening inside.
  • Donald suspects silo forty disabled its gas lines before cutting its camera feeds.
  • Donald suspects silo forty first disabled the bombs intended to destroy it.
Chapter 53
  • Donald suspects Silo Forty underwent a quiet, bloodless revolution.
  • Donald says Silo Forty remained standing despite Anna’s claim that it had been destroyed.
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