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The Orchard of the Glass Comet
The Halcyon Meridian is a spin-gravity cylinder six hundred and forty metres long and ninety-two metres across, turning three point six times a minute, standing at the fourth Lagrange point of the Anwen system with four thousand one hundred and eighty people inside it and no other reason to exist.
- ~244 min (estimated)
- 53775 words
- 69 scenes
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
43 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
It has no outside air and no other source of anything. Every kilogram of oxygen that four thousand one hundred and eighty adults breathe was made this morning by ryegrass under a canopy of six hundred and ten nanometre light in a glasshouse wrapped around the cylinder's waist in nine terraced rings, forty-one thousand square metres of it, and the glasshouse makes exactly what the station breathes, which is one thousand three hundred and twenty kilograms a day, and not one kilogram more. The station has been running at a margin of zero since it was commissioned. Under the root beds of all nine rings there is a four-hundred-millimetre deck of blended perlite and basalt. In twenty forty-four, when the Meridian Common bought the glasshouse off a Solent-side syndicate, that deck was forty-one per cent basalt by mass, and the deed said in its ninth clause that the Common would keep it at not l
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- A deliberate, professionally-authored false conclusion assembled out of two figures that are individually correct
- A habitat whose entire atmosphere is one crop, at exactly zero margin, with two and a third days of reserve
Cast
- V Verity Okonkwo-Bray Crop systems engineer, second degree, eleven years on the glasshouse and four of them as ring lead; viewpoint anchor of act one and the person the whole case is about no portrait yet
- B Boan Tegarden Life-support engineer, third deck, the Scrub Reserve beds and the electrolysis array no portrait yet
- S Sena Aluko Estate and debt officer of the Meridian Common, the only person aboard who can read the Orchard Deed, and the viewpoint anchor of act three no portrait yet
- R Remy Salcedo Independent loss assessor appointed by the administrator under the Panel Schedule, eleven days on-station, and the gate through which every outcome in this story has to pass no portrait yet