Post by Pawel on Sept 18, 2021 19:55:51 GMT
As published, in parts, on BiohazardGames's Twitter (I'll edit this post and add more segments to it, if/when they become available):
"Down-Home Station is anchored to the seafloor bedrock in a shallow region of the Dolphin Sea, at 07º27’03” west longitude and 18º03’12” south latitude. While most of the underwater town is between 50m and 110m below the surface, the settlement was sited along the margins of a narrow, steep-sided underwater canyon that plunges to a depth of over 6000m.
Though anchored in the underlying bedrock, the seafloor here is covered in a thick layer of silt and biogenous oozes deposited by the complex of tidally and thermally driven currents that flow like an underwater river along the submarine trench. The rich sediments are woven through with delicate algal and bacterial matting, much of which has been locally degraded by construction and aquaculture operations. The average water temperature at settlement depth is 18.4ºC and is fairly constant year round. Tidal range in this region of the planet is a relatively negligible 3.2m to 5.1m through Poseidon’s complicated tidal cycle. There is a large reef-analog complex in shallow waters to the south and half a dozen tiny, uninhabited islands within a radius of 20 kilometers.
Though arguably problematic for Down-Home Station’s efficient daily operation, and certainly not high art, there are two popular VR shows that are actually produced onsite rather than in digital sets. Cetacean Station, a telenovela series that follows the romantic travails of various surprisingly glamorous resident geniuses, and Nereid 2200, a sci-fi procedural that fictionalizes the investigations of the Special Laboratories Group, focusing heavily on the mysteries surrounding Poseidon’s strange nereid species.
APEX’s priority function is to monitor and maintain the safety of Down-Home Station and its inhabitants, which it does through a seemingly infinite number of sensors, actuators, data resources, robots, drones and human technicians. Processing millions of decisions every minute and initiating potentially dozens of actions based on each of those decisions, APEX conducts a boggling symphony of automation and support that nonetheless remains 99% invisible to the typical station resident."
"Down-Home Station is anchored to the seafloor bedrock in a shallow region of the Dolphin Sea, at 07º27’03” west longitude and 18º03’12” south latitude. While most of the underwater town is between 50m and 110m below the surface, the settlement was sited along the margins of a narrow, steep-sided underwater canyon that plunges to a depth of over 6000m.
Though anchored in the underlying bedrock, the seafloor here is covered in a thick layer of silt and biogenous oozes deposited by the complex of tidally and thermally driven currents that flow like an underwater river along the submarine trench. The rich sediments are woven through with delicate algal and bacterial matting, much of which has been locally degraded by construction and aquaculture operations. The average water temperature at settlement depth is 18.4ºC and is fairly constant year round. Tidal range in this region of the planet is a relatively negligible 3.2m to 5.1m through Poseidon’s complicated tidal cycle. There is a large reef-analog complex in shallow waters to the south and half a dozen tiny, uninhabited islands within a radius of 20 kilometers.
Though arguably problematic for Down-Home Station’s efficient daily operation, and certainly not high art, there are two popular VR shows that are actually produced onsite rather than in digital sets. Cetacean Station, a telenovela series that follows the romantic travails of various surprisingly glamorous resident geniuses, and Nereid 2200, a sci-fi procedural that fictionalizes the investigations of the Special Laboratories Group, focusing heavily on the mysteries surrounding Poseidon’s strange nereid species.
APEX’s priority function is to monitor and maintain the safety of Down-Home Station and its inhabitants, which it does through a seemingly infinite number of sensors, actuators, data resources, robots, drones and human technicians. Processing millions of decisions every minute and initiating potentially dozens of actions based on each of those decisions, APEX conducts a boggling symphony of automation and support that nonetheless remains 99% invisible to the typical station resident."
