Mechanical
Mechanical is the silo’s maintenance community, battered by an armed uprising; radio reports now announce surrenders among its people.
Story so far
Occupying eight floors, Mechanical combines practical skills in a mutually supportive community. Deagan Knox heads the department, and Juliette entered its apprenticeship a year early with her father’s approval. Workers commonly accumulate unused vacation time through overtime. Juliette describes the department as recycling oxygen and pumping exhaled toxins into the earth. The successful generator refit brought the workers together in celebration.
Mechanical sent hundreds of signatures seeking to save Juliette and designed the durable tape used on her suit. After Walker explained that cleaning suits were deliberately made to fail, anger turned into preparations for confrontation. Workers assembled weapons, sent blasting powder to Supply, and planned to march upward while a small crew kept operations running. Some disguised themselves in yellow overalls.
The retreating fighters were pursued downward, and those left behind welded steel across Mechanical’s entrance. Weeks of fighting followed. Bernard said Mechanical threatened to cut power but lacked control over IT’s supply. Mechanics raised another stair barricade and defended the generator room, yet attackers penetrated their position and killed defenders. Bernard planned to replace them with farmers; radio reports now announce people surrendering in Mechanical.
Appearance
Mechanical workers wear blue denim overalls and carry blue identification cards. The department occupies eight floors; its defensive positions have included welded steel barricades.
Role
It maintains essential silo machinery and has become the center of armed resistance and subsequent surrenders.
Relationships
Sources — 35 recorded facts, by chapter
- Mechanical employs Juliette, the deputy’s preferred candidate for sheriff.
- Marnes says Mechanical workers commonly keep unused vacation chits because they work substantial overtime.
- Mechanical accepted Juliette as an apprentice a year younger than usual with her father’s approval.
- Deagan Knox heads Mechanical.
- Mechanical workers wear blue denim overalls.
- Mechanical workers record their travel and hours when signing back in at the gate.
- Mechanical identification cards are blue.
- Mechanical occupies eight floors.
- Juliette says Mechanical recycles the silo’s oxygen and pumps exhaled toxins into the earth.
- Juliette says Mechanical workers joke that the silo’s layout keeps them out of the way.
- Mechanical workers celebrate the rebuilt generator by crowding around and touching it.
- Juliette remembers Mechanical as a mutually supportive community with overlapping practical skills.
- Mechanical uses computers for administrative submissions and remote equipment control and diagnostics.
- Mechanical controls the vents that cool the servers.
- Mechanical sent a petition with hundreds of signatures seeking to save Juliette.
- Mechanical designs the durable heat tape used on Juliette’s suit.
- Mechanical’s adults send their shadows away before debating forbidden questions about cleaning.
- Mechanical workers become angry after Walker describes the deliberate failure of cleaning suits.
- Mechanical prepares makeshift weapons for potential fighting.
- Mechanical’s shadows carry blasting powder to Supply.
- Mechanical plans to send most of its available mechanics upward while a dozen keep operations running below.
- Some Mechanical workers change into yellow overalls to blend into the mids.
- Workers in the marching group hand out supplies and lie to women complaining about the power outages.
- Mechanical’s retreating fighters have been pursued for more than a dozen levels.
- The crew left behind at Mechanical welds steel plates across its security entrance.
- Some mechanics disguise themselves in yellow overalls.
- Mechanical’s entrance remains the scene of fighting three weeks later.
- Bernard says Mechanical has strongly barricaded itself and threatened to cut the power.
- Bernard says Mechanical does not control the power to IT’s levels.
- Mechanical’s people are trapped behind the steel wall they built.
- Mechanics weld another steel barricade across the stairs during the attack.
- Armed mechanics remain outside the generator room to defend it.
- Mechanical defenders are being killed as the attackers penetrate their position.
- Bernard plans to replenish Mechanical with farmers after the fighting.
- Radio reports announce people surrendering in Mechanical.