tower / files / content / world.json
world.json
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| 5 | "city": "Pisa", |
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| 9 | "day0": "2026-09-23" |
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| 21 | "notes": "At the foot of the sun cap. Gravity on a cap is tangent to it, so water cannot rest there — it runs to the rim and pools. This ocean is not designed; it is what happens.", |
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| 38 | "notes": "The same at the far cap, and the larger of the two. A 314 km shoreline with a 50 km cliff behind it, and the only windows in the world at its foot (§1.4). The window is a cold wall, so this is a polar sea: ice-cold throughout, open to z 512 km, pack ice to 525, and dim fast ice beyond, against the ice-buried Cap Range that stands against the window (§1.9.6, D-090, D-093).", |
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| 63 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. On the Uplands at about 1,000 m, beside the Uplands Ring. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 76 | "name": "Far Ringside Fields", |
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| 78 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. On the Uplands, on the far side of the world from Ringside, by the Ring again. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 93 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. A clearing cut out of Greatwood near its sunward edge. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 108 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. In Greatwood, 44 km antispinward of the Capital: the nearest fields to the city. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 123 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. Deep in Greatwood, on the far side of the world from The Deep. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 138 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. In Greatwood's deepward half. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 153 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. Where the Axial Line ends. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 168 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. On the open ground before the far end, opposite the railhead. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 183 | "notes": "D-095, D-096. Provisional name. The nearest fields to the Deepward Sea and the ice. About 28 km², grown from here over the land (D-097); one of nine farms that share the 250 km² Tower lights on their own days. Tower gives each crop the day its plant wants (design.md §1.9.7): lit as at noon from sunrise, long-day crops on into the night, short-day crops dimmed early, every one of them some darkness.", |
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| 196 | "name": "The Cap Range", |
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| 198 | "notes": "D-093. Provisional name. A ring of rock Tower raised at the foot of the far cap for the ice to stand on, rising from the Deepward Sea's bed to about 2,400 m against the window and buried in ice 350 m thick; its sharpest ridges stand out of the ice as bare rock. Grounded ice alone could not stand more than a few hundred metres here. Fed by snow off the window wind and by the meltwater of every pane Tower clears. The ice meets the fast ice in a low front where the rock leaves the water, about 528.5 km, and climbs 2 to 3 km up the window. Terrain comes from the Deepward Sea's ice.range; this feature is its name.", |
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| 212 | "notes": "The sunward end of the world, and one of only two views out (§1.4). A cap is a wall, not a floor: gravity there points radially outward, tangent to its surface, so nothing rests on it. Fifty kilometres of vertical cliff with its windows at the base, and the beam entering through a 3.2 km aperture at its centre.", |
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| 226 | "notes": "The deepward end, 540 km away, standing over The Deepward Sea. Its windows look along the spin axis — which is the celestial pole — so the stars do not sweep past but turn about a fixed centre, one revolution every 7 min 29 s. The only moving sky anyone in Tower ever sees.", |
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