The Order
The Order is the hidden procedural manual for managing silo disasters and people, including warfare after a failed cleaning.
Story so far
The Order fills the remainder of the enormous book after The Pact. Its cross-references connect earthquake damage with airlock breaches and sabotaged columns, and it covers air handling and asphyxiation. Near its beginning, page seventy-two directs the reader to prepare for war after a failed cleaning.
Bernard Holland orders Lukas to study its sections on insurrections and uprisings, though Lukas initially prefers other reading. Bulleted procedures, interlinked references, population graphs, and tables sit alongside chapters on persuasion, mind control, and fear during upbringing. Lukas later presents adherence to the Order as justification for the handling of the lower-level conflict.
Explaining the danger he attributes to people like George, Bernard directs Lukas to section thirteen and says the Order teaches that ideas are contagious.
Appearance
An extensive portion of an enormous book, organized with bulleted lists, linked page references, graphs, and population tables.
Role
A manual for silo leadership that joins emergency response to techniques for controlling people.
Sources — 14 recorded facts, by chapter
- The Order makes up the remainder of the enormous book after the Pact.
- The Order cross-references earthquake damage to procedures for airlock breaches and sabotaged support columns.
- The Order contains material about air handling and asphyxiation.
- Page seventy-two, near the beginning of the Order, addresses a failed cleaning.
- The Order instructs its reader to prepare for war in the event of a failed cleaning.
- The Order contains sections on insurrections and uprisings that Bernard wants Lukas to study.
- Lukas has barely studied the Order because he finds other material more interesting.
- The Order uses bulleted lists and interlinked page references.
- The Order contains instructions for averting silo disasters.
- The Order includes reference chapters on group persuasion, mind control, and fear during upbringing.
- The Order contains graphs and tables on population growth.
- Lukas presents adherence to the Order as his justification for the handling of the lower-level conflict.
- Bernard directs Lukas to section thirteen of the Order when explaining the danger he attributes to people like George.
- Bernard says the Order teaches that ideas are contagious.