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<div class="ev-source">Based on <i>[[The Divide|Paul Evans: The Divide]]</i>. Introductory reference only; major discoveries and outcomes are omitted.</div> | <div class="ev-source">Based on <i>[[The Divide|Paul Evans: The Divide]]</i>. Introductory reference only; major discoveries and outcomes are omitted.</div> | ||
== Reading the network from its far end == | |||
Renticuluous Alpha helps distinguish a system total from a local experience. Energy available elsewhere in the network is not the same thing as warmth delivered to a particular room. | |||
Its representative’s concerns sit beside those of [[Olympus Prime]] and [[Volallies Beta]]. Reading the three habitat entries together introduces the competing demands around Paul’s work without describing his response to them. | |||
Latest revision as of 12:00, 14 October 2026
Renticuluous Alpha is a Martian habitat connected to the Valles heat network.
Setting
[edit | edit source]Its circulation is constrained by the Bottleneck. Warmth reaching a central point does not necessarily reach the rooms at the far end of the network. Chief Lorn represents its concerns.
In the book
[edit | edit source]The opening chapters establish the Valles network; Chapter 5 introduces the habitat representatives.
Explore further
[edit | edit source]Reading the network from its far end
[edit | edit source]Renticuluous Alpha helps distinguish a system total from a local experience. Energy available elsewhere in the network is not the same thing as warmth delivered to a particular room.
Its representative’s concerns sit beside those of Olympus Prime and Volallies Beta. Reading the three habitat entries together introduces the competing demands around Paul’s work without describing his response to them.