Chapter
Chapter II — The Working Country
7r – 12r
“After the first six months you stop calling it the rotation. You call it the work. The substitution is, on its own, a small acclimation, and it happens without ceremony.”
This is the chapter the rotation makes for you. Saturation, the cable, the long hours of pressure-equivalent time at instruments whose readings you know before they are taken. The Conservancy is here, and the Filament Guild — the two institutions one accumulates a relation with by accident, because they accumulate a relation with the depth.
Two journal entries, two places past the saturation envelope, the two organisms that are the depth's actual residents, and the polities that arrange the lives those organisms are tolerated in.
- 7vJournalMarker IX, protocols2186-08-30 · 380 m
- 8vPlaceThe Meridian Spine540 m – 600 m · human
- 9rPolityThe Filament Guildguild
- 9vPlaceThe Brassgate380 m – 420 m · contested
- 10rJournalLong saturation, weather2186-11-22 · 560 m
- 11rPolityThe Bathymetric Conservancyresearch body
- 11vSpeciesIris snailfauna
- 12rSpeciesTide-coralLitholumen vexata