Quote:Yes, very much so. Inspired by the Island but motivated by the need to do it very covertly, designed by several engineers, witches and an SF writer, it was planned and guided into its final form. Less, of course, the usual unexpected features and quirks.
it seems that Grover's Corners was fashioned in a far more...careful and systematic fashion.
Quote:Exactly. And not just a lower hull, but a collapsible geodesic dome up top, grown in collapsed form at the same time as the hull. It was "unfolded", locked into place and sealed at pretty much the last minute.
I'm guessing that Grover's Corners, then, is basically a giant bowl-shaped wavium hull...with unaltered soil and earth inside it. And then the buildings on top.
(Oh, and after extensive talks with Kat, Joe and Scott this weekend, I've decided that the GC is -- once again -- a true sphere instead of the oblate spheroid it's been since my earliest descriptions. As a side effect this means that the lower hull dug down as much as 1850 feet, and the underside of the ship is made up of a fair amount of solid bedrock -- which itself would probably be a pretty stable base.)
As for "unaltered", well, yes and no. There is an irrigation system that "just growed" on its own. And all the animal life on the ship is thought to be infiltrated by 'wavium, to the point that one of the ship's four AIs is believed to be the gestalt result of all their collective brainpower.
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