The Order
The Order is a survival and control manual that Dmitry now interprets as describing one shift within a much longer program.
Story so far
The Order follows the Pact in an enormous book, using bulleted lists, cross-references, graphs, and tables for disasters, air handling, population growth, uprisings, and psychological control. It calls for preparation for war after a failed cleaning. Bernard uses it to train Lukas and says it teaches that ideas are contagious. Psychologists shaped its treatment of behavior, and Anna names Victor as its author.
Thurman gives Donald the book as required project reading and expects near-memorization. Donald connects it with paranoia and says medication let him study without fearing its implications. As Troy, he studies it to run a silo and conduct assessments. It prescribes suspicion of unexplained accounts, prohibits intervention in a silo’s collapse, and, according to Donald, requires shutdown when camera feeds and calls cease. Anna says its rules justified Silo Forty’s shutdown; Eren later says the text has changed.
Jimmy finds disaster procedures and instructions for cistern water but no guidance for total solitude. John’s blue copy supplies end-of-world instructions and security guidance, but he abandons it after the crash. Dmitry then concludes that The Order describes only one shift within a far longer program. Once the true timescale is known, the founders recognize its population-replacement guidance.
Appearance
A heavy, thick book with Order embossed in shiny gold lettering and precisely cut smooth paper. John’s copy is blue.
Role
A manual governing silo survival, population management, and control.
Sources — 44 recorded facts, by chapter
- The Order makes up the remainder of the enormous book after the Pact.
- The Order cross-references earthquake damage to procedures for airlock breaches and sabotaged support columns.
- The Order contains material about air handling and asphyxiation.
- Page seventy-two, near the beginning of the Order, addresses a failed cleaning.
- The Order instructs its reader to prepare for war in the event of a failed cleaning.
- The Order contains sections on insurrections and uprisings that Bernard wants Lukas to study.
- Lukas has barely studied the Order because he finds other material more interesting.
- The Order uses bulleted lists and interlinked page references.
- The Order contains instructions for averting silo disasters.
- The Order includes reference chapters on group persuasion, mind control, and fear during upbringing.
- The Order contains graphs and tables on population growth.
- Lukas presents adherence to the Order as his justification for the handling of the lower-level conflict.
- Bernard directs Lukas to section thirteen of the Order when explaining the danger he attributes to people like George.
- Bernard says the Order teaches that ideas are contagious.
- Troy has read the Order, but studied it for running a single silo.
- Psychologists wrote the Order to account for human behavior.
- Troy studies an assessment procedure in the Order before conducting it.
- Troy locks his copy of the Order in his desk before going to the communications room.
- The Order directs officials handling unexplained problems to start at the top and presume the explanation is a lie.
- The Order prohibits intervention in a silo’s collapse.
- Thurman gives Donald a heavy book titled The Order as required reading for the project.
- Thurman expects Donald to memorize The Order as nearly as he can.
- The book Donald brings home has the word Order in gold lettering.
- Donald says the Senator gave him the book to read.
- Anna says Erskine followed the Order when authorizing Silo Forty’s shutdown.
- Anna identifies Victor as the Order’s author.
- Donald remembers receiving the Order from Thurman as the beginning of his descent into paranoia.
- Donald says medication allowed him to study the Order without fearing its implications.
- Jimmy finds the thick book with Order embossed in shiny letters on its cover.
- The Order’s paper is precisely cut and unusually smooth to Jimmy’s touch.
- The Order describes possible disasters and ways to prevent or mitigate them.
- Jimmy finds no index entry in the Order about being completely alone.
- Reading the Order left Charlotte’s brother fearing the world might end, prompting him to use medication to forget.
- Jimmy’s copy of the Order has his silo’s number stamped inside.
- The Order provides instructions for accessing water from the cistern.
- Eren says the Order has changed since Donald last read it.
- The Order includes passages on human behavior that Lukas was required to study during his Rite.
- Donald says the Order required shutting down silos that stopped transmitting camera feeds and answering calls.
- The Order contains instructions for surviving the end of the world.
- John’s copy of The Order is blue.
- The Order includes a section about security.
- John leaves The Order behind after the crash.
- Dmitry concludes that The Order describes only one shift within a much longer program.
- The Order contains population-replacement guidance that the founders recognize after learning the true timescale.