The Silo
Silo Eighteen is an underground community emerging from internal conflict, with Juliette proposing informed resistance to those controlling the silos.
Story so far
The silo is a buried cylindrical home containing apartments, workshops, hydroponic gardens, and purification rooms. Its 144 floors form three sections of forty-eight, and even its highest floor lies underground. Thousands use the staircase in their daily lives. Apprenticeship is widespread, but the loss of ancestral history troubles residents: according to Jahns, surviving records do not reach back before the uprising, while priests teach that a caring God created the silo to supply everything its inhabitants need.
Communication is costly and restricted. Wires cost a quarter chit per character, and Juliette explains that radio access is limited to keep a single channel available for emergencies. Bernard Holland identifies the community as Silo Eighteen when contacting Silo One. Juliette later sees that its circular surface depression outlines its roof; she also knows groundwater continually seeps into structures below the water table.
Recent conflict brought a retreat down bloodied stairs and strict rationing. Juliette says her home’s doors open only to send people out to clean. Following news of her return, Lukas reports that more than half the silo voted. Juliette now proposes that Silo Eighteen oppose the informed leaders who control the silos.
Appearance
A buried cylindrical structure of 144 floors, divided into three forty-eight-floor sections. Apartments, workshops, gardens, and purification rooms lie beneath a roof outlined by a circular surface depression.
Role
The silo houses thousands of residents and their essential services. Its leadership and relationship to the wider system are now being contested.
Relationships
Sources — 22 recorded facts, by chapter
- The silo is a buried cylindrical home.
- The silo contains apartments, workshops, hydroponic gardens, and purification rooms.
- Thousands of people use the silo’s staircase in their daily routines.
- According to Jahns, surviving silo records do not extend back before the uprising.
- The silo’s lost ancestral history is a widespread source of unease.
- The silo’s uppermost floor is underground.
- Nearly half the silo’s workers have apprentices.
- Apprentices in the silo range from twelve to twenty years old.
- The silo is divided into three sections of forty-eight floors each.
- Four people have died in the silo during a particularly bad week.
- Sending a wire costs a quarter chit per character.
- Juliette explains that radio access is restricted to keep the single transmission channel open for emergencies.
- The priests teach that the silo has always existed and was created by a caring God to provide everything its inhabitants need.
- Bernard identifies his silo as Silo Eighteen when contacting Silo One.
- The silo’s top floor is underground despite the apparent surface view on its screens.
- Juliette sees the circular depression around the silo as marking its roof’s outline.
- The retreat down the bloodied stairway takes place in Silo 18.
- Juliette knows from her own silo that groundwater continually seeps into structures below the water table.
- Strict rationing remains in effect during the resistance.
- Juliette says the doors of her home silo open only to send someone out to clean.
- Lukas reports that more than half the silo voted after news of Juliette’s return.
- Juliette proposes that Silo Eighteen oppose the informed leaders controlling the silos.