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== Economy == | == Economy == | ||
The primary economic functions of Backbone Site arise from its location, networking infrastructure, and industry in electronics | The primary economic functions of Backbone Site arise from its location, networking infrastructure, and industry in electronics manufacturing, recycling and salvage. | ||
=== Networking === | === Networking === | ||
Networking is where Backbone Site gets its name from. This is where bundles of optical cables branch between Benacia, Apollonia, and the isles of Amity and Yardistan from which data transfer goes on further south. Backbone Site is also equipped with a strong [[POEL]] array. | Networking is where Backbone Site gets its name from. This is where bundles of optical cables branch between Benacia, Apollonia, and the isles of Amity and Yardistan from which data transfer goes on further south. Backbone Site is also equipped with a strong [[POEL]] array. Its location thus provides it a somewhat unique opportunity to be a nexus of data passing between Shireroth and the rest of the world, and inside Shireroth. | ||
How much access the [[Hunter-Seeker]] has to the gigabits of data passing through the Backbone Site [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Exchange_Point Internet Exchange Point] (BSIX) every second is kept somewhat unclear to outsiders, but the conservative assumption is that it might be monitoring ''all'' of the data. | How much access the [[Hunter-Seeker]] has to the gigabits of data passing through the Backbone Site [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Exchange_Point Internet Exchange Point] (BSIX) every second is kept somewhat unclear to outsiders, but the conservative assumption is that it might be monitoring ''all'' of the data. | ||
=== Electronics manufacturing === | |||
While not really a factor to set Backbone Site apart, the sanct does currently house two large semiconductor fabrication plants. | |||
=== Electronics recycling and salvage === | |||
While the cost of these economic functions has been steadily growing during all of the existence of Backbone Site, this sanct is still one of the cheaper places to get the job done. | |||
== Architecture == | |||
The basic design of Backbone Site is a somewhat plain floating-spar platform designed by a committee led by [[Pentero Antun]]. It has kept the sanct afloat for well over four hundred years by ASC 3066. | |||
== The Breakers == | |||
The society of Backbone Site is famous for the group known as the Breakers. More on their history will become available as soon as the rest of Straylightian history is worked out. They are a group of remarkable cultural resilience, maybe about five hundred years old, about two thousand strong. Most of the Breakers live in Backbone Site, and they are predominantly employed by the electronics recycling industry. | |||
Revision as of 07:59, 28 December 2007
Backbone Site is a sanct located northwest of Discontinuity. In the last fifty years or so in its life, its COSAC-affiliated government has been attributed great achievements toward social equality for its slightly over 20000 citizens.
Economy
The primary economic functions of Backbone Site arise from its location, networking infrastructure, and industry in electronics manufacturing, recycling and salvage.
Networking
Networking is where Backbone Site gets its name from. This is where bundles of optical cables branch between Benacia, Apollonia, and the isles of Amity and Yardistan from which data transfer goes on further south. Backbone Site is also equipped with a strong POEL array. Its location thus provides it a somewhat unique opportunity to be a nexus of data passing between Shireroth and the rest of the world, and inside Shireroth.
How much access the Hunter-Seeker has to the gigabits of data passing through the Backbone Site Internet Exchange Point (BSIX) every second is kept somewhat unclear to outsiders, but the conservative assumption is that it might be monitoring all of the data.
Electronics manufacturing
While not really a factor to set Backbone Site apart, the sanct does currently house two large semiconductor fabrication plants.
Electronics recycling and salvage
While the cost of these economic functions has been steadily growing during all of the existence of Backbone Site, this sanct is still one of the cheaper places to get the job done.
Architecture
The basic design of Backbone Site is a somewhat plain floating-spar platform designed by a committee led by Pentero Antun. It has kept the sanct afloat for well over four hundred years by ASC 3066.
The Breakers
The society of Backbone Site is famous for the group known as the Breakers. More on their history will become available as soon as the rest of Straylightian history is worked out. They are a group of remarkable cultural resilience, maybe about five hundred years old, about two thousand strong. Most of the Breakers live in Backbone Site, and they are predominantly employed by the electronics recycling industry.
