The Uprising
The Great Uprising is associated with erased history and server destruction; Mission’s events take place in its year.
Story so far
Jahns places the uprising a century and a half before Holston’s confinement. Children’s books were the only books to survive, though some artifacts endured the accompanying purge. The silo servers were completely wiped. Allison says a report listing earlier revolts was deleted and theorizes that erasing the servers ended a pattern of generational rebellion. The uprising shaped the childhoods of Holston and Allison and those of their parents and grandparents.
Allison claims that doubt about the outside world drove the uprisings and that the ban on expressing a wish to leave exists because that desire started them. Deagan Knox later wonders whether the earlier revolt felt as necessary to its participants as his own revolution does to him. Bernard Holland claims repairs and efforts to make people forget followed it. The events involving Mission Jones in Silo Eighteen take place in the year of the Great Uprising.
Role
A defining uprising tied to the loss of records and contested explanations of why people revolt.
Sources — 12 recorded facts, by chapter
- The uprising took place a century and a half before Holston’s confinement, according to Jahns.
- Children’s books were the only books to survive the uprising.
- Allison says a report listing earlier revolts was deleted during the great uprising.
- The great uprising shaped the childhoods of Holston’s and Allison’s parents and grandparents as well as their own.
- Allison theorizes that the erasure of the servers during the great uprising ended a pattern of generational revolts.
- Allison claims uprisings were driven by doubt that the outside world was as bad as it appeared.
- Allison argues that the prohibition on expressing a desire to leave exists because that desire started the uprisings.
- Some artifacts survived the uprising and the purge that accompanied it.
- The uprising resulted in the complete wiping of the silo servers.
- Knox questions whether the earlier uprising felt as necessary to its participants as his own revolution feels to him.
- Bernard claims the previous uprising was followed by repairs and efforts to make people forget.
- The chapter’s events in Silo 18 take place in the year of the Great Uprising.