IT
IT is the silo’s privileged technical department, responsible for suit-making and political oversight; Raph reports several server-chip failures in quick succession.
Story so far
IT housed cleaning-suit laboratories and trained apprentices while exercising informal review over nominees for judicial and law-enforcement posts. Its silver-clad staff occupied three levels, with the main landing on thirty-four. Juliette said it consumed more than a quarter of the silo’s power, and suspected secret supply chains and deliberate control of the inhabitants. Its technicians unknowingly built her a durable suit after materials were substituted.
The department became a target of the uprising. Armed defenders fired on attackers at its barricaded entrance; later, workers planned to feed generator exhaust into its server-room cooling supply. Walker said knowledge of radios was restricted to IT. In the aftermath, IT staff were reassigned to fill labor shortages in the Down Deep and Supply. Many supported genuine outside-air testing after generations of only pretending to investigate. Raph now reports that several server chips failed in quick succession.
Appearance
Staff wear silver overalls or jumpsuits. The department spans three levels of apartments, offices, and workshops, with its main landing on level thirty-four.
Role
A technical and political institution with control over suit-making and privileged access to equipment and information.
Relationships
Sources — 47 recorded facts, by chapter
- The IT department is circulating Allison’s white paper to help people recover information they accidentally deleted.
- Allison accuses IT of knowing a secret connected to programs that create realistic screen images.
- IT trains teenage apprentices, including Marcha.
- IT has fewer than two dozen staff, mostly men.
- IT houses the laboratories that make cleaning suits.
- IT informally reviews nominations for judges and lawmen.
- IT staff wear silver overalls.
- Jahns believes silo residents hope IT’s suits will eventually make life outside possible.
- Juliette says IT occupies three of the silo’s 144 floors but consumes more than a quarter of its power.
- Tradition gives IT sign-off authority over nominated positions.
- Jahns says IT accused Juliette of skimming its supplies and compiled a thick file on her.
- Juliette says a porter told her IT held miles of heat tape for test-suit skins.
- IT’s main landing is on level thirty-four.
- IT workers wear silver jumpsuits.
- IT retains bright lighting during the power holiday.
- Jahns and Marnes discuss what concession could satisfy IT.
- IT recruited Scottie away from Mechanical several years earlier.
- IT occupies three levels containing apartments, offices, and workshops.
- An IT gate attendant claims that the department’s special position limits the sheriff’s authority.
- Juliette recalls that seals intended for IT were accidentally delivered to Mechanical and used in water pumps.
- Juliette suspects IT maintains secret parallel supply chains.
- Juliette suspects IT designed the silo.
- Juliette believes IT is deliberately keeping the inhabitants inside the silo.
- An IT technician fits Juliette into her suit and explains the cleaning equipment.
- IT unknowingly builds Juliette a durable suit after the materials substitution.
- Lukas expects his IT colleagues to examine and divide up Juliette’s belongings.
- Walker says the best electronics and wire go to IT’s suit makers.
- Knox believes Mechanical could cut IT’s power or stop treating its water.
- Marck accuses IT of choosing to send people out to die.
- IT technicians nervously avoid Bernard and Lukas as they pass through the halls.
- McLain and Knox plan to seize and contain IT before pursuing Bernard.
- Armed defenders at IT fire on attackers struggling through the chairs blocking the entrance.
- Walker says knowledge of the radio devices is restricted to IT.
- Bernard intends Lukas to take over running IT while Bernard spends more time up top after the election.
- Shirly reports that witnesses saw IT at full power despite a shutdown from below.
- Juliette wonders whether her return and revelations could expose IT.
- Workers plan to attack IT by feeding generator exhaust into its server-room cooling supply.
- Juliette leaves IT with Lukas escorting her to the landing.
- IT employs Melanie, Marcus Dent’s girlfriend.
- A guard reports that a power spike destroyed many computers the previous night.
- A guard says every IT technician is working a double shift.
- IT holds Rodny in a locked room.
- Mission reports that IT is recruiting new personnel, including a porter seeking a different job.
- IT blamed Silo Seventeen’s collapse on hardware failure.
- IT staff have been reassigned to fill labor shortages left by deaths in the Down Deep and Supply.
- Many IT workers enthusiastically support genuine testing of outside air after generations of pretending to perform such investigations.
- According to Raph, IT experienced several server-chip failures in quick succession.