Excavation Action 1

Yesterday, I finished up explaining how my brother Bruce and I came up with a complete, photo-realistic world and campus for the University of Deucado. Armed with the vivid images drawn there, now see if you can envisage the action as described by Rome and MINIMCOM:

Aason tried to peek over the windshield. “I can’t see, Mommy,” he said.
     The starship activated his ventral cameras. “Look on the viewscreen,” Rome said to her son.
     The sounds coming from the PPT throwers increased in intensity. The whole ship began vibrating. Beneath them, huge chunks of dirt exploded and instantly disappeared. Like a titanic router, MINIMCOM moved north and south, following a precise pattern. It took more than a few minutes but eventually the vibrations died down then stopped.
     “That will be the foundation for your library,” MINIMCOM said, floating up slightly higher in the air.
     Beneath them, they could see a beautifully sharp, rectangular pit, 70 meters wide, 150 meters long and 20 meters deep.
     “It is huge,” Rome remarked.
     “It is what the plan called for,” MINIMCOM replied. “Let us continue.”
     The starship drifted forward, to the north then repeated the procedure, albeit it on slightly smaller scale.
     “I still think Rei’s plan is overly ambitious,” Rome said from the pilot’s seat, watching in wonder as the process continued. “I just wanted to build a place to archive historical data.”
     “If anyone comes to visit, they will need a place to sleep,” MINIMCOM said as he blasted a yet another enormous chunk of ground to the north. “That will be the dormitory.”
     MINIMCOM drifted east over to a third spot and blasted yet another foundation.
     “And they will need a place to eat so that will be the commissary. Next will be the lecture hall and auditorium.”
     “A lecture hall?” Rome asked. “Who is going to lecture?”
     “Anyone who is interested,” MINIMCOM said. “Your library will be right in the center of the complex but it is for research. If there are any large groups, the library by itself is not really designed to accommodate more than a small number of people at one time.”
     “I suppose you are right,” Rome said reluctantly. She tried hard to imagine a lecture hall filled with people hearing about her work. It didn’t seem like something that would happen any time soon.
     Like an artist using a broad brush on a gigantic canvas, MINIMCOM carved and blasted the surface, adding side roads until he completed the colossal design. He even built himself a substantial landing strip with more than enough space to hold his bulk and several other ships.

Tomorrow, I will give you the second half of the action.