The Library of Life

This is really cool. Now that the book trailer for The Ark Lords has come out, I'm getting flooded with questions with why this and why that. When you read books, you form a picture in your mind of the people and places described there. When the movie comes out or in this case a book trailer, suddenly everybody's preconceived notions are challenged because the images in their head are made real. To address this, yesterday's post dealt with why bricks?

Today's post concerns the shape of The Library in general.

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Why was it a T-shape? What went into the wings? What was it like inside, in general?

Well, the entry way leads in to the two-story tall main study area. This is the place where people can access the original data that Rome collected. As described in Rome's Evolution, the left wing contains a combination museum and shrine. Stored there were the invisibility cloaks donated by the Deucadons and Hanry Ta Jihn's M9 Beretta. It also housed the original data sources which included the Essessoni data slabs, the Deucadon's memory stick, a set of Vuduri data-cubes and Trabunel's notebook detailing the travails of the Ibbrassati.

As you go back along the main building, you have study rooms, research labs, a playroom and finally in the way-back, you have Rome's personal research library. Of course, as you can tell from the book trailer, Rome's library, called "The Human History Library" at the time, was bombed and rebuilt. It's kind of interesting that the original design did not have certain features. After Rome used the library and it got bombed, she had a say in how it was rebuilt. Mostly she kept it the same but changed it in subtle ways. To see exactly how she used it, check out Rome's Evolution.