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The SCIRE is a truncated rectangular pyramid set on a rectangular plinth approximately 100 m (330 ft) tall with a footprint of 800 m × 900 m (0.50 mi × 0.56 mi)[1]. The structure's total height reaches 969 m (3,179 ft)[2] tall with the rooftop measuring 600 m × 700 m (0.37 mi × 0.43 mi).
Basement Levels
- B21 — Reactor Level — Each of the three fission plants on this level has sufficient capacity to cover 70% of the Arcology's entire power needs.
Per agreement, Renraku only operates one at a time. They purchase any underage from the metroplex utility grid, who in turn contracts out to Shiawase Atomics. Everybody gets a cut.
Anonymous
There's actually nothing stopping Renraku from severing the Arcology from the grid — that agreement is a "gentleman's agreement" for lack of a better description. Renraku is a AAA-rated Prime Megacorporation with full extraterritoriality. The whole point of the SCIRE is that nobody can make them do anything.
Anonymous
- B20 — Emergency Headquarters and Command Center — Four express elevator shafts lead from select locations on floors 200 and above down to this level.
- B18-19 — Frozen Food Storage
- B16-17 — Aquaculture — Renraku's "sea farmers" use the massive tanks on this floor grow fish, crustaceans, and other aquatic life for food. Escorted tour groups do visit these floors.
- B13-15 — Water Filtration and Recycling — Huge tanks treat all the Arcology's waste, recycling as much as possible. What cannot be recycled is flushed into the Puget Sound, much to the dismay of the metroplex government and the Salish-Sidhe Council.
- B12 — Security Training Center — This entire floor is dedicated to training guards and soldiers to defend the arcology with minimum necessary force. The facility includes obstacle courses designed to simulate the layout of different floors, plus classrooms, firing ranges, and gymnasiums.
- B11 — Software Duplication and Packaging — Much of the work done on this floor is automated, so very few people are present on a daily basis. Escorted tour groups do visit this floor.
- B9-10 — Computer Product Storage — These floors are filled with crates of hardware, packaged software, and parts. The warehouse is designed to be serviced by drones (such as autonomous, omnidirectional pallet jacks) and has very little space for people to move around. Eight container-scale freight elevators start here, lifting freight to the loading docks and piers at the B1 level for transshipment and delivery to distributors.
- B7-8 — Host Hardware Manufacturing — This floor manufactures server-scale, enterprise-class hardware. Approximately 20% of the hardware sold in this market in North America is manufactured here. Each floor includes an employee cafeteria and a small medical clinic. Escorted tour groups do visit this floor.
- B2-6 — Parking Garages — Each level is well-lit, with plenty of security cameras, elevators to the mall levels, and PanicButton™ booths
- B5 — The arcology's metrobus terminal is on the eastern end of this floor. The station is large enough to load and unload eighteen buses simultaneously.
- B2 — On- and off-rams for Intercity 5 are on this floor. This is the only vehicle access to the garage. Cars are monitored and a series of stoplights and detours can redirect suspicious vehicles for inspection.
- B1 — Mall Service Tunnels & Sea Freight Loading Docks — The main freight terminal is accessed from the public piers via a secure tunnel, where it's manifest and the driver's identification can be checked and the shipment scanned. The loading dock is capable of supporting approximately 60 simultaneous loading or unloading operations.
The bulk of the remaining floor is dedicated to service and security corridors for the mall levels above.
Public Access Levels
- 1-5 — Renraku Mall (Open to the Public)
- 1 — Entrance & Ground Floor — There are only a few dozen stores on this floor. Most of the space is taken by the FunZone amusement park, a forest of live tropical plants, a small zoo and aquarium, a swimming pool, and a permanent circus.
- 2-5 — Renraku Mall Stores — Floor 3 also includes the arcology's monorail station.
- 6 — Club Quarter (exterior faces, open to the public) and Mall Offices (inner core). The exterior of this level includes a dozen helicopter pads, three on each face of the structure, to accommodate the helicopters and other VTOL craft of the metroplex's glitteratti. The fifteen clubs in the outer rim range from the sedate Blue Room jazz club to the raucous screech-metal of The Frag Grenade to the trendy Rumplestiltskin's and the voodoo chill Purple Haze. Each club is fully staffed with employees in theme-appropriate uniforms, and fully sound insulated from the adjoining clubs.
Corporate Levels
- 7-20 — Blue-Collar Residential Floors
- 10 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
- 21 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing — Tours visit this floor.
- 22 — Electronics Manufacturing — This floor manufactures large electronics like theatre-class surround sound systems and jumbotrid screens.
- 23-30 — Corporate Offices — Some of these spaces are rented out to smaller corporations, though space within the arcology is considered prestigious and comes with an appropriate premium. Tours visit these floors.
- 31-50 — Middle-class Housing
- 31 — Premium housing units for middle-class employees. This is the level at which the angle of the pyramid-like shape begins. The units along the perimeter of this floor (mostly restaurants and amusement centers) have outdoor gardens and other facilities on the "roof" of the blockish base of the arcology. This is the highest floor tours visit.
- 40 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
- 51 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 52 — Personal Computer Equipment Manufacturing
- 53-70 — Blue-Collar Residential Floors
- 60 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
- 71 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 72 — Cybernetics Research and Manufacturing
- 73-80 — Renraku Corporate Offices
- 81-100 — Middle-class Housing
- 90 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
- 101 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 102 — Software Development Labs
- 103-120 — Blue-Collar Residential Floors — This block and others like it provide housing for the company's blue-collar workers. The accommodations are fairly spacious (a compensation for the lack of privacy due to the pervasive security). Each floor includes at least four plazas where workers can find a variety of products and services. Anything not immediately available can be ordered through the Arcology's matrix host and delivered within hours. Some stores and restaurants are not Renraku subsidiaries, but are staffed by family members of Renraku employees. Each floor also has two entertainment areas. The exact offerings vary by floor, but each block includes trideo theatres, nightclubs, bars, and small zoos.
The outer perimeter of each residential floor is ringed by a strip of grass and trees that take advantage of the windows. These arboretums typically extend the full height of the given block. While natural light is piped throughout the arcology, units closer to the edges are considered more prestigious, despite identically sized and appointed.- 110 — Hospital Facility — Each block includes a hospital facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors. Each floor within the block also includes a smaller clinic, for day-to-day concerns and triage for more serious ailments.
- 121 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 122 — Trideo & Simsense Research, Design, and Manufacturing
- 123-130 — Renraku Corporate Offices
- 131-150 — Middle-class Housing
- 140 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
- 151 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 152 — Mainframe Hardware Manufacturing and Software Integration — Unlike the equipment manufactured on the B7 and B8 levels, this equipment includes bespoke configurations with software and branding (Renraku or otherwise) preinstalled.
- 153-170 — Blue-Collar Residential Floors
- 160 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
- 171 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 172 — Computer Systems Manufacturing
- 173-180 — Renraku Corporate Offices — This section of the arcology features a significant number of mainframe compute nodes.
- 181-200 — Middle-class Housing
- 190 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
Elite Levels (Restricted Access)
- 201 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 202 — Computer Research, Development, and Assembly
- 203-212 — Thaumaturgical Research Labs, Libraries, and Corporate Magician Residences
- 203, 206, 209, 212 — Include labs dedicated to paranormal creature research.
- 213-230 — Renraku Corporate Offices — This section of the arcology features a significant number of mainframe compute nodes.
- 231-250 — Executive Housing
- 240 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
- 251 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 252-253 — Microtronics Assembly and Manufacturing — Includes both drones and custom cybernetics.
- 254-280 — Executive Housing
- 259 — Private Residence of Arcology Director Hiroshi Ushida — While not the highest floor in the facility, as some people might expect, it is one of the most lavishly furnished sections of the arcology and dedicated solely to his personal use.
- 260 — Hospital Facility, serving the residents of the surrounding floors.
- 281 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 282-290 — Renraku University — This as yet uncompleted facility is planned to become the premier higher educational facility in North America.
- 291-300 — Executive Housing
Luxury Penthouses (Restricted Access)
- 301 — Hydroponic Gardens, Aqua Culture, Food Storage, Waste Processing
- 302-303 — Skyline Spa & Recreational Fitness Center
- 304-310 — Offices of the Board of Directors
- 311 — Security Center & Air Traffic Control
- 312-320 — Luxury Housing — The exterior residences of these floors have private helipads and small hangars.
- 312 — Private Residence of Arcology Head of Security Tadashi Marushige.
- Rooftop — Decorative Gardens & Helicopter Landing Pads
References
- ↑ 0.72 km2 (180 acres), equivalent to approximately 40 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
- ↑ It should be closer to 1,200 m (3,900 ft) based on Burj Khalifa's 163 floors and 605 m (1,985 ft) top-floor height (not including the spire and antenna masts). Each floor of Burj Khalifa is approximiately 3.7 m (12 ft), while the Arcology's floors are only 3.2 m (10 ft). To be fair, nobody had built anything so tall when FASA was writing the original Seattle Sourcebook back in 1990.