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achieving the deeply entrenched wrinkles and complete baldness of extremely old age.
“Our new brotherhood has been infiltrated, corrupted, and misdirected for more than 300 years. Our purpose has been supplanted by the ruling elite. More importantly, our true order has been relegated to the deepest realms of secrecy for millennia and all will be lost if we do not rise once again and accomplish this last task,” Tuner instructed.
“We have successfully undertaken countless subversions of our corrupt speculative brothers who follow the direction of the Committee of 300. Nevertheless, their power has reached a threshold that now threatens the survival of the inhabitants of this planet and possibly the entirety of existence. They cleared their last hurdle with the eradication of our Brother Washington’s foundation in the US and ultimately the installment of the Council of Seven.” Turner leaned back in his chair crossing his arms and nodding toward Conrad.
“The return of their people, those that did not fare well in their efforts of domination elsewhere, is upon us now” Conrad declared. He leaned forward and pressed a recessed button on the table edge causing one of the cinder block walls to separate and expose a large wall viewer and computer array. The main viewer displayed an overhead view of Zone 09 in Oakland with three superimposed space video feeds matching those of the C7’s.
“I have been informed that Simeon should be freed shortly,” Conrad alerted with a tone of cautious optimism, looking at the empty chair.
CHAPTER 10
Oakland ROC
T he flat wide rectangle that formed Section 03, consisted of the space between 7th Street and 10th Street and stretched from Market St to Mandela Parkway, parallel to I-980. Cadan and Ben were under a 12 story building facing Market Street in an expansive basement. In between the mechanical sections were pockets of open spaces where Ben established his furtive residence. About a year ago he had given his assigned room on the second floor to a family of five from Section 15; a particularly unsafe area near 34th Street.
Even though residents were free to roam the interior of the entire ROC, the camp curfew from 8pm to 5am was no longer enforced outside of Sections 03 and 07 due to the overpopulation in most other sections. Sections 03 and 07 were the only residential sections fully electrified and guarded during curfew hours. Outside of the lit and guarded sections, many places were extremely dangerous at night.
Since its inception over three years ago, the Oakland ROC had evolved its own socio-economic structure as a result of the discriminatory internment protocols. Essentially there was an upper class and a lower class. When a resident was first interned at the command center, they were designated either a ‘resident-worker’ or a ‘resident-detainee’ and received a ration card indicating their ‘class.’ The determination was based purely on skill set and previous work experience. So far, two sections, 03 and 07, had been completed to house this new civil service.
When Ben arrived in December of 2028, Section 03 reconstruction was just beginning with the new high-density resident dormitories replacing non-compliant structures like old houses or business buildings making inefficient use of land space. The resident dormitories were ten story cubical concrete structures that focused exclusively on capacity, lacking any architectural creativity whatsoever. Sections 03 and 07 represented the control model which the ROC administrators were directed to expand throughout the entire interior. There were currently sixteen sections undergoing reconstruction.
Ben gained his particular resident-worker status simply by his initial assignment to Section 03 during the time reconstruction began for that section. Actually, he had been originally classified as a detainee, but after proving his abilities to the ROC construction engineers, he was ‘upgraded’ and reissued a new
“Our new brotherhood has been infiltrated, corrupted, and misdirected for more than 300 years. Our purpose has been supplanted by the ruling elite. More importantly, our true order has been relegated to the deepest realms of secrecy for millennia and all will be lost if we do not rise once again and accomplish this last task,” Tuner instructed.
“We have successfully undertaken countless subversions of our corrupt speculative brothers who follow the direction of the Committee of 300. Nevertheless, their power has reached a threshold that now threatens the survival of the inhabitants of this planet and possibly the entirety of existence. They cleared their last hurdle with the eradication of our Brother Washington’s foundation in the US and ultimately the installment of the Council of Seven.” Turner leaned back in his chair crossing his arms and nodding toward Conrad.
“The return of their people, those that did not fare well in their efforts of domination elsewhere, is upon us now” Conrad declared. He leaned forward and pressed a recessed button on the table edge causing one of the cinder block walls to separate and expose a large wall viewer and computer array. The main viewer displayed an overhead view of Zone 09 in Oakland with three superimposed space video feeds matching those of the C7’s.
“I have been informed that Simeon should be freed shortly,” Conrad alerted with a tone of cautious optimism, looking at the empty chair.
CHAPTER 10
Oakland ROC
T he flat wide rectangle that formed Section 03, consisted of the space between 7th Street and 10th Street and stretched from Market St to Mandela Parkway, parallel to I-980. Cadan and Ben were under a 12 story building facing Market Street in an expansive basement. In between the mechanical sections were pockets of open spaces where Ben established his furtive residence. About a year ago he had given his assigned room on the second floor to a family of five from Section 15; a particularly unsafe area near 34th Street.
Even though residents were free to roam the interior of the entire ROC, the camp curfew from 8pm to 5am was no longer enforced outside of Sections 03 and 07 due to the overpopulation in most other sections. Sections 03 and 07 were the only residential sections fully electrified and guarded during curfew hours. Outside of the lit and guarded sections, many places were extremely dangerous at night.
Since its inception over three years ago, the Oakland ROC had evolved its own socio-economic structure as a result of the discriminatory internment protocols. Essentially there was an upper class and a lower class. When a resident was first interned at the command center, they were designated either a ‘resident-worker’ or a ‘resident-detainee’ and received a ration card indicating their ‘class.’ The determination was based purely on skill set and previous work experience. So far, two sections, 03 and 07, had been completed to house this new civil service.
When Ben arrived in December of 2028, Section 03 reconstruction was just beginning with the new high-density resident dormitories replacing non-compliant structures like old houses or business buildings making inefficient use of land space. The resident dormitories were ten story cubical concrete structures that focused exclusively on capacity, lacking any architectural creativity whatsoever. Sections 03 and 07 represented the control model which the ROC administrators were directed to expand throughout the entire interior. There were currently sixteen sections undergoing reconstruction.
Ben gained his particular resident-worker status simply by his initial assignment to Section 03 during the time reconstruction began for that section. Actually, he had been originally classified as a detainee, but after proving his abilities to the ROC construction engineers, he was ‘upgraded’ and reissued a new
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