Concordia

History¶

Concordia as a public entity was established on April 26th, 1978 by Robert Brunton, his wife Arlette Brunton, Geraldine Dahlin, and Sigmun Hustad after Robert came up with a solution to providing constant, reliable energy to his parent’s farm using a more efficient steam boiling and dispersion method, that he then patented and developed under the company name. The process was dependent on an little-understood material named Bosmite, an allotrope of Bismuth infused with mystic matter that allows adjoining fluids, such as air and water, to have higher heat capacities. After applying this discovery to a standard boiler heating system Robert realized he could use this to create a “cold steam” system that allowed for room temperature water vapor to be spread in mass quantities, improving irrigation systems wholesale.  

The innovation alone generated millions in revenue allowing its founders to establish the farm and the surrounding area as an outdoor research facility. As the studying of Bosmite and mystic matter opened more doors of research and technologies, Concordia continued to further use its overwhelming gross income to vastly expanding its land and available facilities to the point where the lot itself became so large it was more efficient to develop housing, recreation, transportation, and other infrastructure on its campus, turning the once small family run farm into a modern urban bubble.  

Since its early days Concordia has moved away from Bosmite enrichment as its focus and towards providing solutions to agricultural development. This has coincidentally led the company on the path of energy research and development as most of their customers come from second and third world nations where energy accessibility is the forefront bottleneck in food production.  

In 2015 Robert passed away after a slow and steady decline in health over the past few years. As such, Arlette momentarily rose to the position of CEO before being nominated and elected as Minister of Energy. Since then one of her daughters, Lynn Alden, as taken the position in her stead.

Structure ¶

• CEO: Arlette Brunton
  • Director of Transportation
  • Director of Education and Research
    • Campus Board of Education
      • School Headmasters
        • Teachers and Professors 
    • Research Directors 
      • Lead Researchers 
        • Research Teams 
  • Director of Energy 
    • Plant Directors 
      • Chief Operators 
        • Shift Operators 
        • Shift Technicians  
  • Director of Public Relations 
    • Marketing and Branding 
      • Advertising 
      • Accounting 
      • Production Scheduling 
      • Customer Care 
  • Director of Site Security (Site Commissioner) 
    • Sector Chiefs 
    • Chief Assistants 
      • Sector Deputies 
        • Sector Captains 
          • Sector Lietenants 
            • Sector Sergeants 
              • Sector Officers 
    • Site Bureau of Investigation 
      • Sector Investigation Force 
    • EHS Director 
      • Safety Officers 
      • Medical Corp 
  • Director of Site Operations 
    • Operation Managers 
      • Line Overseerers 
        • Shift Supervisors 
          • Shift Provisional Officers 
            • Shift Operators 
            • Technicians  
            • Quality Control 
            • Maintenance

Public agenda¶

Concordia, above all else, is a research firm devoted to innovating energy production, transmission, and usage. To this end the company devotes it funding to its many energy firms and agricultural businesses, providing education and training for its citizens, along with other resources needed to reach its goal.

Buildings, facilities, and infrastructure¶

Concordia is best thought of as a city built around a business, as 73% of its employees live within the complex in individual homes, apartments, and other dwellings. The border of the city-complex is marked by its 500m thick, 40km diameter outer stone/concrete walls. The walls are designed to act as a defensive barrier from outside forces, most notably any artillery fire in the event of an invasion, as the walls were erected during the Spotlight Conflicts, to encapsulate the city in the event military conflict would directly threaten the campus’ safety.. The wall structure itself is tiered vertically, as the top levels of the wall are used for pedestrian walking, biking, etc. whereas the lower levels are used for vehicular, locomotive, and maglev transportation of workers, businessmen, materials, and freight throughout the complex’s many buildings and levels. Concordia extends roughly 2km below the surface, but consists of mostly maintenance tunnels to move about buildings, pipes and other infrastructure for water, sewage, and electricity, subway tunnels for freight, and the core campuses restricted labs.  

The complex itself takes the shape of its emblem, of which its flag also gets its design from, with the main research facility and executive offices residing in the center circle and below it with roads and other transportation lines extending to other “villages”. Each village has its own smaller theme to it, in terms of climate and vegetation. Villages contain housing units, shops, and clinics. The inner circle houses all of Concordia’s business and industry. Energy production and other more demanding tasks are conducted and housed in the underground structure beneath the surface.  

The outer wall has three points of entry named after the villages: Oase, Mesa, and Lund. Each city is connected to each other by the transit routes built into the outer wall. The inner ring composes of three larger and more densely populated villages: Frostkratt, Kronblad, and Solmyr.  

The vertical structure of the campus is akin to a multilayered dermis followed by a series of structural levels. The top 250m consists of an enriched soil layer using broken down waste that’s separated into individual elements. This is all supplied by the campuses “Arterial” pipe network which pumps water, steam, waste, and electricity throughout. These two layers are consistent across the entire land area. 

After this point each layer varies depending on the village, as below that would consist of transit tunnels, pumping stations, minor treatment and effluent plants, and other various substructures.  

The center of the campus is universally called Concordia instead of designating it as a unique entity. Here lies the central offices for all business and production. At its very center lies Apec Tower, the companies headquarters and central vantage point to view the entire campus. Below Apec Tower lies a unique substructure of multilayered piping networks, productional facilities, and research labs. 

The central City of Concordia has a ringed substructure consisting of: 

1. The Heart: The massive pumping structure that pumps all fluid across the campus 
2. The Junction: The central hub for all product transport along with the depot for the trains. 
3. The Core: A sprawled out layer devoted to several methods of energy production along with the substations to transmit the power. In the very center of The Core lies the first and original Bosmite Enrichment Chamber.  

Each level is connected by a network of lifts and elevators.  

All land excluding the villages and the City of Concordia is collectively known as “The Sanctuary”. The Sanctuary is where all agricultural industries are located along with scattered natural reserves. Very few people live in The Sanctuary aside from farmers and those looking to escape from the bigger cities.

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