From 16f4d40a641dd4404e3ef47c3329eb0010a237ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Meta Vens Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 18:13:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Define AU Ramp Administration access --- .../Factions/Powers/Major/Aeronautics Unlimited.md | 2 ++ .../Pre-Elysium/Technology/Bloom Habitat Anatomy.md | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/Major/Aeronautics Unlimited.md b/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/Major/Aeronautics Unlimited.md index e1bdf33..f48b8a5 100644 --- a/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/Major/Aeronautics Unlimited.md +++ b/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Factions/Powers/Major/Aeronautics Unlimited.md @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ AU profits from: Its major institutions include the Expansion Board, the Ramp Administrations that govern large Bloom clusters, the Frontier Claims Office, and a thicket of semi-autonomous operations councils that often behave like petty governments in their own right. +AU uses `ramp` in the production sense: a habitat, yard, route, or cluster being brought up from speculative shell to working throughput. A Ramp Administration is the local operating authority for that ramp-up. It controls berth priority, shift allocation, safety waivers, claimshare accounting, security escalation, maintenance budgets, and the ugly question of which failure can be called acceptable. Its offices are usually spoke-base operations decks, hub traffic rooms, and yard control galleries. They are not literal ramps, though AU would absolutely charge rent on those too. + ### Claimshares `Claimshares` circulate through AU territory like frontier stock certificates disguised as wages. Crews earn them for output, dangerous contract completion, and staying attached to promising cavities. They buy better tools, medical access, improved spin districts, docking priority, and, for the fortunate, slivers of equity in the next charter. diff --git a/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Technology/Bloom Habitat Anatomy.md b/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Technology/Bloom Habitat Anatomy.md index 2438f77..beda7e8 100644 --- a/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Technology/Bloom Habitat Anatomy.md +++ b/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Technology/Bloom Habitat Anatomy.md @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Workers follow the hierarchy of access: - **Specialist bodies** enter zero-g crawl arteries, pressure lungs, narrow valve nests, exterior-adjacent pockets, and blind maintenance routes that were never meant to be public architecture. - **Supervisors and security** often have parallel routes: observation catwalks, badge-only lifts, command galleries, and quick-response shafts that let them arrive after workers have already absorbed the danger. -This answers one recurring scene question: where does someone like an AU supervisor come from? In a mature AU yard, not from nowhere. They come from a spoke-adjacent operations deck, a supervisor tram, a command gallery, or a security lift tied to the nearest ramp administration node. Their arrival changes a scene because the architecture gives them a cleaner, faster, more authorized path than the workers have. +This answers one recurring scene question: where does someone like an AU supervisor come from? In a mature AU yard, not from nowhere. A shift superintendent usually originates in the yard operations gallery: a glassed control booth mounted above the work ring, connected by a raised supervisor catwalk and badge-only corridor to the spoke-base operations deck. Security can arrive by quick-response shaft; cluster administrators can descend from Ramp Administration offices. The supervisor's arrival changes a scene because the architecture gives authority a cleaner, faster, more protected path than the workers have. ## Living Space Hierarchy @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ This is why an AU Bloom can feel inventive and cruel at the same time. The geome The [[Pallas Species Strikes]] occurred in precisely the spaces where AU customization and BioElevate biology met Orbital Forge anatomy. -A Pallas-style maintenance yard might sit beneath an industrial surface district, radially outward from the visible yard floor and inward from thicker shielding. Workers reach it through shift locks, equipment cages, and service lifts from nearby housing or spoke transit. Supervisors reach it from an operations gallery tied to the spoke base or ramp administration deck. Biodrones arrive through handler corridors and restraint staging. Uplifted cephalopod crews arrive through support-rig prep rooms where humidity skins, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, limiter interfaces, and compact mobility harnesses are checked before entry. +A Pallas-style maintenance yard might sit beneath an industrial surface district, radially outward from the visible yard floor and inward from thicker shielding. Workers reach it through shift locks, equipment cages, and service lifts from nearby housing or spoke transit. Supervisors reach it from a glassed Kappa operations gallery on a raised catwalk, with badge-only access back to the spoke-base operations deck and the local Ramp Administration offices above it. Biodrones arrive through handler corridors and restraint staging. Uplifted cephalopod crews arrive through support-rig prep rooms where humidity skins, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, limiter interfaces, and compact mobility harnesses are checked before entry. The work itself happens across layers: