Neighboring Silo Server Room
The once-secured server room has become the survivors’ gathering place and a workshop for preparing cleaning suits.
Story so far
The neighboring silo’s enormous server room contained working machines and blinking lights even amid the surrounding ruin. A massive keypad-controlled steel door protected it, while a locking floor grate near the communications hub concealed a ladder into a passage below. Earlier events brought fighting outside, repeated unsuccessful code attempts, white vapor from overhead vents, and a shutdown followed by restored power. Jimmy’s waste and the machines’ heat later made the room foul and fly-ridden. Many machines eventually stopped running, possibly because of heat.
Juliette used the room for calls and once tried to sleep on its warm floor, finding the machinery too noisy. More recently, she and Raph stopped smoke entering by blocking the hatch with a server tower. The room became the proposed gathering place for all survivors, who assembled to eat and hear Juliette’s escape proposal. It is now a workshop for preparing cleaning suits.
Appearance
An exceptionally large machine room with server towers, a massive steel door and keypad, and a removable locking floor grate near the communications hub. Some machines no longer run.
Role
A former protected refuge and communications site now serving the survivors as a meeting space and suit workshop.
Relationships
Sources — 22 recorded facts, by chapter
- The other silo’s server room is at least as large as Juliette’s generator room and much larger than the cafeteria.
- The other silo’s server room contains operating machines with blinking lights.
- Solo recalls people entering the server area to fight.
- Juliette wants time alone in the server room to make a call before returning to workshop tasks.
- Juliette tried sleeping on the warm server-room floor but found the machinery too noisy.
- The server room is protected by a massive steel door operated through a keypad.
- A removable floor grate near the comm hub conceals a ladder down to a passageway.
- The floor grate locks automatically when replaced and can be opened with a handle below.
- The man outside the locked room says three wrong code attempts require waiting another day.
- Odorless white vapor with a metallic taste enters the server room through overhead vents.
- The lights and servers shut down, leaving the room dark and silent.
- Power returns to the server room after the shutdown.
- Men outside the steel door keep trying codes without opening it.
- Jimmy’s waste has made the server room foul-smelling and attracted flies.
- The machines in the server room radiate heat that worsens the smell of Jimmy’s waste.
- The servers continue running and producing heat during the outage.
- During the outage, the server-room keypad stops blinking and the steel door stands partly open.
- Many machines in the server room have stopped running over the years, possibly because of the heat.
- Smoke stops entering the server room after Juliette and Raph block the hatch with a server tower.
- The server room becomes the proposed gathering place for all the survivors.
- Survivors gather in the server room to eat and hear Juliette’s escape proposal.
- The server room becomes a workshop for preparing cleaning suits.