The Uprising
The earlier uprising erased records and reshaped silo life; its causes remain entangled with Allison’s theories and Bernard’s claims.
Story so far
Jahns dates the uprising to a century and a half before Holston’s confinement. Children’s books are said to be the only books to survive, though other artifacts outlasted the uprising and accompanying purge. The silo’s servers were completely wiped, and its legacy shaped successive generations.
Allison says a deleted report recorded earlier revolts. She theorizes that erasing the servers ended their generational repetition, and argues that doubts about the bleak outside world drove uprisings and produced the ban on expressing a desire to leave. During his own march, Deagan Knox wonders whether the earlier rebels felt as justified as he does. Bernard Holland now claims that repairs and deliberate efforts to make people forget followed the previous uprising.
Role
A foundational historical rupture associated with destroyed records, prohibitions, and disputed explanations.
Sources — 11 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.