Neighboring Silo
Silo 17 is the devastated neighboring silo that sheltered Solo, children, and later refugees before their departure; few coastal villagers came from it.
Story so far
Juliette discovers the neighboring silo beyond a hill, with decayed suits and a mass of bodies outside its airlock. Inside, the air is breathable despite the stench, emergency lights remain, and the layout resembles her own silo. Solo identifies it as silo seventeen and says it no longer generates its own power. Surviving electrical lines keep farm lights and irrigation operating even as lower levels flood and structures deteriorate.
Accounts of its collapse describe an airlock opening out of sequence before a cleaning, a lower-level gas purge, and an upward-moving riot. Eren says the reason for the early opening remains uncertain and reports that Silo One shut it down as people escaped. Donald later believes that opening the airlock admitted lethal outside gas despite Anna’s intervention. Radio accounts from the aftermath describe farming survivors and an armed group taking their produce. Solo lives amid the decay for years, eventually finding a cat, while water continues rising. Juliette’s pumping work allows the water to retreat, and surviving children begin making a home again.
Jimmy hopes returning residents will restore the silo, but visiting workers remove equipment despite the promise of rebuilding. The unexplained power on level thirty-four helps operate pumps and lights. When refugees arrive from the destruction of Juliette’s silo, they bring little, claim farm plots, and rapidly strip the available food. Power from the digger restores lights to the lower facilities, but flooding still requires pumps. Looting, a fire threatening power cables, and ravaged farms make delay increasingly dangerous. Food dwindles while the residents prepare to leave.
At the coastal village, Elise says only a few residents came from Silo 17 and recalls her former silo as having just five survivors.
Appearance
A rusted underground silo with damaged structures, debris-strewn rooms, ravaged farm plots, and flooding lower levels.
Role
The abandoned neighboring silo that served as a refuge before the survivors’ departure.
Relationships
Sources — 78 recorded facts, by chapter
- The next hollow contains another sensor tower.
- Juliette finds the decayed remains of a cleaner’s suit and helmet near the other tower.
- Juliette concludes that the hills conceal the neighboring silo from view.
- Most of the bodies outside the other silo wear ruined ordinary clothing rather than cleaning suits.
- The bodies are densely piled along the approach to the other silo’s airlock.
- No one answers Juliette’s knocking from the dark interior of the other silo.
- The other silo has breathable air despite its overpowering stench.
- The abandoned silo still has emergency lighting on its stairs.
- Juliette finds the familiar portions of the abandoned silo apparently identical to her own.
- Juliette does not know what caused the silo’s abandonment or how long ago it occurred.
- Solo reports that the silo’s toilets no longer flush because there is no water.
- Solo identifies the silo he and Juliette occupy as silo seventeen.
- Solo says the silo no longer generates its own power and thinks it receives power automatically from others.
- A call from the silo connected to line 17 reaches Bernard despite his belief that the silo is dead.
- Silo 17 has electrical cables installed during its downfall that still power timed grow lights on the lower farms.
- Plants in Silo 17’s lower farms are growing out of control under the surviving timed lights.
- Bernard wants calls from silo seventeen identified separately so they can be ignored.
- Someone in silo seventeen answers Lukas’s call after Bernard leaves.
- The silo contains scattered evidence of violence that unsettles Juliette.
- Juliette sometimes sleeps in the silo’s two jail cells during trips between levels.
- Lukas understands the red X across silo seventeen as marking the loss of its population.
- Juliette believes only two adults remain in silo seventeen.
- Survivors in silo seventeen are choosing rooms and heading toward the upper farms.
- Children can be heard running and shouting in silo seventeen again.
- Lukas believes their own silo narrowly avoided the condition Juliette described in the other silo.
- The floodwater in Silo 17 is receding.
- An operator reports that silo seventeen was shut down several shifts earlier.
- Eren says Silo Seventeen was lost more than thirty years earlier.
- Eren says Silo Seventeen showed no unrest before its collapse.
- Eren reports that Silo Seventeen’s airlock opened a day before a scheduled cleaning and out of sequence.
- Eren says it remains unknown whether a glitch or tampering caused Silo Seventeen’s early airlock opening.
- Eren reports a lower-level gas purge followed by an upward-moving riot in Silo Seventeen.
- Eren says Silo One shut down Silo Seventeen as people escaped through its airlock.
- Eren says someone answered a routine call on the day Silo Seventeen fell.
- According to the shift report Eren reads, collapse codes were sent to Silo Seventeen soon after the answered call.
- Silo Seventeen’s cameras showed a panicked exodus through the airlock before its feeds went dark.
- Radio conversations describe one group farming and an armed group taking what other survivors produce in Silo 17.
- Jimmy’s preparations to leave his refuge take place in Silo 17 in 2318, identified as Year Seven.
- Silo Seventeen still has survivors whom Solo frightens while exploring Supply.
- The silo’s bottom stairs disappear beneath murky floodwater with a multicolored surface film.
- The silo has been dead for twelve years when Solo finds the cat.
- Silo 17’s metal structures, rubber hoses, and adhesives are deteriorating with age.
- Insects swarm in dark clouds around the bodies gathered in Silo 17.
- Cool air rises from Silo 17’s flooded lower levels.
- The farms in Solo’s silo continue growing without human tending because some automatic lights and irrigation equipment still work.
- The farms receive electricity through wires running along the stairwell walls from the area below where Solo lives.
- The cameras in Silo Seventeen stopped working long ago.
- Water continues to rise through Silo Seventeen.
- Juliette regards the empty silo holding her friends as a tomb she cannot reach.
- The Deep is almost pumped dry, making Jimmy willing to set up a home there.
- Jimmy expects the return of many residents to restore his old silo.
- Silo 17 is among the silos listed as N/A in the ranking report.
- Juliette expects the other silo to provide enough additional space to double the space available to her people.
- Workers carry machine parts and steel out of Jimmy’s silo.
- Juliette reports that the other silo’s entire thirty-fourth level has power despite having no running generator.
- Juliette reports that survivors tapped the other silo’s power to operate pumps and other equipment.
- Elise remembers level one-hundred in her home silo as empty passages and rooms strewn with debris and rats.
- Jimmy objects that pipe and equipment are being taken from his silo despite the promise to rebuild it.
- Donald says silo seventeen was not dead, and Thurman acknowledges learning this.
- Juliette recognizes the current disaster as a repetition of Silo 17’s fall.
- Juliette believes the neighboring silo’s farms can be salvaged.
- A man transmitting on channel 17 says that people are trapped in the rusted neighboring silo and are panicking.
- Refugees disperse through the rusted silo in search of food and shelter.
- The refugees have only what they managed to carry with them.
- Juliette says Silo 17 is slowly flooding and needs its drainage pumps powered.
- Juliette says power in the thirties supplies Silo 17’s farm pumps and lights.
- A man answering on channel 17 reports work on the water lines and people claiming farm plots.
- Power from the digger brings lights on in Silo 17’s pump room, generator room, and main hall.
- Newcomers claim and dispute ownership of the silo’s farm plots.
- Previously abundant farm plots have been stripped of food.
- Donald says a man in Silo Seventeen answered a call after its supposed gassing.
- Donald believes opening Silo Seventeen’s airlock let the lethal outside gas in despite Anna’s intervention.
- Survivors loot Silo 17, taking wire, pipe, and plants.
- Juliette warns that the fire threatens the power cables beneath the floor grates.
- Juliette says the farms are ravaged and cannot support waiting weeks to dig an escape route.
- Food supplies dwindle while the residents prepare to leave.
- Elise says that only a few people in the village come from Silo 17.
- Elise recalls her former silo as having only five survivors.