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Can you give us a general description of them. Like what do they look like and how do they keep humanity safe from the fucked-up state of the planet.
How are they secured and maintained? Would some parts needed to be regularly replaced due to complications?
Is the life there hierarchial like the upper-class lives above the lower-class?
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There are two ‘types’ of arcology on Earth. The differences are mostly confined to the shape and distribution.
The majority of arcologies are ‘conal class’. These are built in replacement of the city they cover, stacked in huge circular rings that slowly decrease in size as they increase in altitude. Most conals have ten levels — the bottom level is given to the military and support machinery, the lower levels to the poor, the middle levels to the wealthy, and the top two levels to defenses. Conal class arcologies replaced most small to midsized cities due to the damage done during the war.
The second kind is the archclass. Two huge arches meet in an X shape, and a thick wall runs around the outside of the ends of each arch. Everything within is protected by powerful layered kinetic, magnetic and omni-shield barriers (the omni-shields require geothermic taps to power and usually only activate during armada storms or direct attack). The outer ‘wall’ is half a mile thick and riddled with defenses and military emplacement, while the pre-Iron city sits underneath the dome just as it did. Many roads have been replaced by mag-lines, but for the most part the cities have not changed. The arches are full of mounted weapons, defense platforms, and the like.
Huge cities like New York, Vancouver and London are usually archclass arcologies.
One final unofficial kind of arcology can be found at what is today Yellowstone Park. The entire supercaldera there has been drilled and converted into a giant power-source, generating titanically thick and powerful kinetic and omni-barriers over the Bastion: an emergency military command bunker buried a mile into the earth. The Bastion is ringed with the most powerful anti-space and anti-air defenses on the planet, and is the official base of the Solguard.
Cryogentically frozen seed stock and DNA from every surviving lifeform on earth (as well as millions of donated fertilized human eggs) is stored here, as well as emergency stocks of eezo and other rare materials. A third of the facility is given over to water and food generation and storage. In case of outright siege invasion of Earth, the High Lords would instruct military commanders to fall back to this location and hold for as long as possible. (The High Lords would not retreat to such a position.)
Arcologies are fully sealed against the environment — they chemically crack water from the local water table or rivers and lakes into oxygen and hydrogen. Some is them recombined to form chemically pure water. O2 is stocked in tanks and other machines extract nitrogen from the atmosphere to make artificial air. Hydrogen not used is given to the fusion reactors.
Each arcology also has powerful air and water filtration systems, if the machinery to create their own goes down and to filter areas where aircraft or mag-line trains enter and exit. The surrounding lands of each arcology are heavily fortified and millions of mechs and Penal Legionares patrol the wastes around each arcology. Most have outlying farm and ranch automated buildings in close proximity.
Order is maintained by the arcology police, and a system of mercenary police units called bounty services, who capture or kill criminals in return for money. Police are typically reserved for more dangerous crimes and riot control.
All services are government operated and owned — it is illegal to sell air or clean water for a profit.
Most arcologies are secured by a mix of war mechs, local military units, small Solguard detachments, and infantry units rotated to Earth as a reward for good service. Most civilians are allowed very light mass accelration weapons if they are ex-military (the USA, Argentina, and South Africa allow all citizens with no citizenship restriction to bear arms). Local citizens can sign up for militias to aid in defense, and each arcology has enough weapons, light body armor and medigel to arm every man, woman and child over the age of 12 in case of invasion.
Most conal arcologies are very hierarchal, and newer than the archclass arcologies. There is a great deal of ‘money flight’ — the rich prefer out of the way, smaller arcologies with a small middle-class service population. This has resulted in the archclass arcologies becoming increasingly segregated — outlying areas given over to the rich, while the downtown areas are also given over to the rich, ringed about with middleclass homes and slums for the poor.
Vancouver does not allow anyone but those with annual incomes in the top 20% of Earth Citizens to reside within the arcology’s boundaries — two separate conal arcologies in close proximity provide the population for service industries.
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The majority of arcologies are ‘conal class’. These are built in replacement of the city they cover, stacked in huge circular rings that slowly decrease in size as they increase in altitude. Most conals have ten levels — the bottom level is given to the military and support machinery, the lower levels to the poor, the middle levels to the wealthy, and the top two levels to defenses. Conal class arcologies replaced most small to midsized cities due to the damage done during the war.
Originally, i visualized the SA arcologies to look like that in the Code Geass anime. This is clearly a shoutout to the hive cities of the Warhammer franchise.
The second kind is the archclass. Two huge arches meet in an X shape, and a thick wall runs around the outside of the ends of each arch. Everything within is protected by powerful layered kinetic, magnetic and omni-shield barriers (the omni-shields require geothermic taps to power and usually only activate during armada storms or direct attack). The outer ‘wall’ is half a mile thick and riddled with defenses and military emplacement, while the pre-Iron city sits underneath the dome just as it did. Many roads have been replaced by mag-lines, but for the most part the cities have not changed. The arches are full of mounted weapons, defense platforms, and the like.
I have a hard time visualizing this type. By ‘X’ do you mean when viewed from orbit? Since i think it’s very tall just like the ‘conal’, wouldn’t such thing look impractical since taking out a ‘leg’ would bring it down (Same goes for the conals).
Let’s brainstorm a scenario:
An invasion force (Reapers) besieged and arcology and breached the lower levels. They would take the logical in destroying the arcology by bringing down the foundations, neutralizing all resistance in a single move.
Cryogentically frozen seed stock and DNA from every surviving lifeform on earth (as well as millions of donated fertilized human eggs) is stored here, as well as emergency stocks of eezo and other rare materials. A third of the facility is given over to water and food generation and storage. In case of outright siege invasion of Earth, the High Lords would instruct military commanders to fall back to this location and hold for as long as possible. (The High Lords would not retreat to such a position.)
Why wouldn’t they? They are basically the most important people in all humanity.
(the USA, Argentina, and South Africa allow all citizens with no citizenship restriction to bear arms).
On what circumstance made them an exemption? I assume there’s something special about these places or the arcologies there, something the SA is very willing to defend.
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