The Control Center

Location of the Control Center

Nestled between the Teegs, at the exact center of a Lattice World, at the "bottom" of the Pole Tunnels, lies the Control Center, a single disk-shaped chamber 200 meters high and 2,900 meters in diameter. The north and south walls of the Control Center are iron foam, 100 meters thick; in their centers open 200-meter wide fluteholes, similar to those of the Pole Tunnels.

Because of the importance of the Control Center in ruling a Lattice World, occupants of the world generally fortify the Pole Tunnels on either side (to prevent attack from space), and often install various security devices to prevent entities arriving through the Teegs from mounting attacks from within the Core. On many worlds, the seat of government itself lies within the Control Center ... but, of course, spills out into the Core or onto the surface, for what bureaucracy could ever confine itself to a mere 1.3 cubic kilometers?

The Lattice World Computers

Spaced around the edges of the Control Center are the mind-boggingly complex computers that control many aspects of a Lattice World: direction of the Teegs, management of power from the Power Films, the design and creation of matter by the Mass Generators, and the application of the Heaters. Each Terminal is three meters tall, with a display screen wrapping around its upper half. Across the 200-meter width of the Control Center stretch rows of seven computers spaced at 26.56 meters; around the 9,110-meter circumference of the Control Center, spaced at 1.05°, stand 343 such rows of seven computers, for a total of 2,401 computers in each Lattice World.