The Silo
Silo Eighteen, once home to thousands, has been shut down; Juliette and other former residents now live in the village.
Story so far
The Silo, also known as Silo Eighteen or Silo 18, was a buried cylindrical home divided into three sections of forty-eight floors. Apartments, workshops, hydroponic gardens and purification rooms supported thousands whose daily journeys followed its staircase. Even the highest floor lay underground. According to Jahns, surviving records did not reach back before the uprising, while priests taught that the silo had always existed. Its history included unusually severe cycles of generational revolt and a deliberately instigated reset involving bombings and fighting. Donald believed surviving memories explained the failure of its resets; Anna Thurman sought to save it from termination.
A cleaner traveling beyond the hill and a failed cleaning accompanied renewed unrest. Fighting bloodied the staircase, and the resistance endured strict rationing. After Juliette returned, Lukas reported that more than half the silo had voted, and Juliette proposed opposition to the informed leaders controlling the silos. The structure bore extensive battle damage, but her excavation breached its thick concrete outer wall and revealed a dark void beyond. Marsha reported that the population had fallen below five thousand for the first time in thirty years. When Jimmy and the children arrived, they found steady lights, working machinery and crowds of adults.
Juliette announced that the silo would sever its external connections. Paul Thurman subsequently announced its shutdown, and a caller ordered it closed after questioning Lukas. Charlotte heard a disaster, although the radio repeaters continued to function, and understood that a handful of inhabitants had escaped over the hills to another silo. Juliette confirmed to Tom Higgins that their silo was gone, and Charlotte reported its shutdown. Former residents, including Juliette, now live in the Coastal Village; they outnumber the villagers who came from Elise’s silo.
Appearance
A buried cylinder of 144 floors, with apartments, workshops, gardens and purification rooms. Its outer wall was approximately five or six feet of reinforced concrete; extensive battle damage preceded its shutdown.
Role
The destroyed underground home of Juliette and many of the village’s residents.
Relationships
Sources — 59 recorded facts, by chapter
- The silo is a buried cylindrical home.
- The silo contains apartments, workshops, hydroponic gardens, and purification rooms.
- Thousands of people use the silo’s staircase in their daily routines.
- According to Jahns, surviving silo records do not extend back before the uprising.
- The silo’s lost ancestral history is a widespread source of unease.
- The silo’s uppermost floor is underground.
- Nearly half the silo’s workers have apprentices.
- Apprentices in the silo range from twelve to twenty years old.
- The silo is divided into three sections of forty-eight floors each.
- Four people have died in the silo during a particularly bad week.
- Sending a wire costs a quarter chit per character.
- Juliette explains that radio access is restricted to keep the single transmission channel open for emergencies.
- The priests teach that the silo has always existed and was created by a caring God to provide everything its inhabitants need.
- Bernard identifies his silo as Silo Eighteen when contacting Silo One.
- The silo’s top floor is underground despite the apparent surface view on its screens.
- Juliette sees the circular depression around the silo as marking its roof’s outline.
- The retreat down the bloodied stairway takes place in Silo 18.
- Juliette knows from her own silo that groundwater continually seeps into structures below the water table.
- Strict rationing remains in effect during the resistance.
- Juliette says the doors of her home silo open only to send someone out to clean.
- Lukas reports that more than half the silo voted after news of Juliette’s return.
- Juliette proposes that Silo Eighteen oppose the informed leaders controlling the silos.
- The men waking Troy report that Silo Eighteen is having problems.
- Anna fears Silo Eighteen is about to destroy itself.
- Anna says problems in Eighteen prompted Victor to request Donald’s awakening months earlier.
- Anna wants to save Silo Eighteen from termination.
- Mission sees armed deputies trying to quiet fighting neighbors in Silo 18.
- A shop on level forty-two has broken windows covered with plastic.
- Silo Eighteen experiences a fifteen-to-twenty-year cycle of violent generational revolt that is more severe than similar cycles elsewhere.
- Silo Eighteen faces a choice between another reset and extermination.
- Donald believes surviving memories explain why Silo Eighteen’s resets fail.
- Mission sees the explosion and Dispatch fire as an escalation after months of growing violence.
- Eighteen is undergoing a deliberately instigated reset marked by bombings and fighting between groups.
- Mission hears rumors of a damaged shaft and the silo operating on backup power.
- Silo Eighteen has reported a cleaner who went beyond the hill and out of contact.
- Silo eighteen’s scheduled morning cleaning fails to take place.
- Eren reports lower-level unrest over the unsuccessful cleaning in Silo Eighteen and considers an uprising very probable.
- Donald wonders whether his earlier efforts to save Silo Eighteen contributed to the current trouble involving a wandering cleaner.
- Donald recalls that silo eighteen’s high ranking motivated Victor’s efforts to save it.
- Donald regards Silo Eighteen as ranked near the bottom.
- Donald reports that the barrier in eighteen’s lowest levels has been breached.
- According to Donald, eighteen’s head expects the fighting to end within a day or two.
- Donald claims that he saved the mayor’s silo a long time ago.
- The outer wall of Silo 18 has two rows of reinforcing bars separated by two feet of concrete.
- Juliette’s excavation exposes a dark void beyond the outer wall of Silo 18.
- The wall breached by Juliette is approximately five or six feet of concrete thick.
- Taking the backup generator would leave Silo 18 without backup power if the main generator fails.
- The silo bears extensive battle damage from fighting that occurred while Juliette was absent.
- Silo 18 has risen two places in the ranking list.
- Marsha reports that the silo’s population has fallen below five thousand for the first time in thirty years.
- The silo receiving Jimmy and the children has steady lights, operating machinery, and crowds of adults.
- Juliette announces that her silo will sever its external connections.
- Thurman announces that he is shutting down silo eighteen that day.
- The caller orders silo eighteen shut down after questioning Lukas.
- Silo 18’s radio repeaters continue operating after the disaster Charlotte hears.
- Charlotte understands that a handful of people from Silo 18 escaped over the hills to another silo.
- Juliette confirms to Tom Higgins that their silo is gone.
- Charlotte reports that Silo Eighteen has been shut down.
- More village residents come from Silo 18 than from Elise’s silo, and Juliette is among them.