Deep Freeze
The deep freeze stores sleeping people and the dead behind coded steel doors; Donald’s code still grants access to its pods.
Story so far
The deep freeze holds women, children and men unable to complete their shifts. Reinforced steel doors with a coded lock protect rows of sealed beds, with empty beds at the far end. Troy pictures the storage rooms as pie-shaped, their pods connected to the walls by pipes and tubes.
Anna Thurman says nobody is supposed to be brought out of deep freeze. Donald nonetheless emerges after a century asleep, while Victor’s body is placed among the pods. Erskine later reports that the deep freeze has overflowed into a lower cryopod level. Donald secretly wakes Anna while Dr. Wilson is occupied in his lab. His code continues to grant him access to the sleeping people’s pods.
Appearance
Reinforced steel doors with coded locks guard rows of sealed beds. Troy imagines pie-shaped storage rooms with tubes and pipes connecting pods to the walls.
Role
The deep freeze is secured long-term storage for sleeping people and bodies; its access controls admit Donald.
Relationships
Sources — 10 recorded facts, by chapter
- The deep freeze holds women, children, and men unable to complete their shifts.
- The deep freeze is protected by reinforced steel doors with a coded lock.
- The deep freeze contains rows of sealed beds with empty beds at the far end.
- Troy pictures the deep-freeze storage rooms as pie-shaped, with rows of pods linked to the walls by tubes and pipes.
- Anna says no one is supposed to be brought out of deep freeze.
- Victor’s body is taken into the deep freeze among the other pods.
- The deep freeze held Donald asleep for a century.
- Erskine’s message reports that deep freeze has overflowed into a lower cryopod level.
- Donald secretly wakes Anna in the deep freeze while Dr. Wilson is occupied in his lab.
- Donald’s code grants him access to the pods holding the sleeping people.