The plant is the level above the ring: six halls in two rows of three, named Reactor, Concourse, Turbines, Loading, Cold Storage and Archive. Wide blast doors and narrow service corridors join them, and a service tunnel runs under the middle. The ladder from the ring comes up through the concourse floor.
The core in the Reactor hall is the reactor's housing as it shows in the plant. The reactor chamber itself is not on any map in the plant.
During the armed response
Rifts open in every hall. Two Transmit Nodes stand in the plant, and each calls one of the plant's four guardians at half calibration. The last Node calibrated opens the extraction hatch in the hall farthest from it, and the Warden steps through.
Evidence labels
Objects recovered here name places in the plant as Hall B and Hall C, with no key to the map. A clock from Hall C stopped at 14:22. A brass survey marker came up from Hall B's floor. See Exhibits.
Under the perimeter orders
Three of the perimeter orders cross the plant, and each comes to its last room from an unexpected side. The core is entered from above, by the service runs past the coolant pumps. The archive is entered from below, by the coolant drains past the cryo rows. The hatch's hall is entered from below, by the freight tunnels past the concourse. A relay holds the gate on each of those ways.
An office labelled Hall C lies beside the cryo rows, with the stopped clock on its desk. It is the one place the records tie that label to the map.
See also
Records cited
- Critical Response field manual, OBJECTIVE and EXHIBITS
- The Critical Response lore manual, section 2