Arkon Tower

The Arkon Tower- or as it is officially titled, Arcology ARK-0N- is one of the central landmarks of the Simara Plateau cityscape. It is a roughly 2km tall tower, a height that grants it just over 300 floors in its spire, prominently featuring a large transport hub and enclosed nature zone at its base, with the ground area of the facility taking up only one square kilometer, roughly.

The Tower was planned and built to serve as a single central hub for Simara's population and transit, while also serving as the headquarters for Hawk Industrial Solutions. The majority of the tower is occupied by facilities for the former purpose, with all but the absolute highest levels being largely composed of storage and maintenance facilities, apartments, and offices.

## Layout

### Ground Sector

#### Tower Foundation

The foundations for the spire forms the central area of the Tower's ground sector. This area is where the reception block for Tower facilities is located, alongside access points for the internal transit systems, as well as the bottoms of the primary support structures, though many ground connection points for the secondary support structures are located elsewhere on-site.

#### Nature Facility

The ground sector nature facility is on the south side of the tower foundation, and consists of an artificial greenscape, made to mimic popular locations from across Vekhara, within the limitations of Simara's biome. Some of the greenscape is encased by a dome attached to the base of the Tower's central structure, with the inside of this dome being regulated to have consistent and pleasant weather, no matter the rain or snow battering the exterior section. This dome also features a promenade where it meets the tower, which despite not initially being planned for, has come to feature rather typical streetside attractions- such as numerous high-class food venues.

#### Transit Junction

The north side of the ground sector is occupied by the Tower's transit junctions, offering immediate access to multiple mass transit networks for Tower occupants, and vice versa. This is a fully enclosed structure, that is directly connected to Simara's roads, magrail, and skimmer networks. In each case, the facility offers limited servicing facilities, as well as systems for automatically transferring cargo to and from the Tower's internal transit networks, alongside the more typical features of mass transport stations.

### Near-Ground Levels

#### 0 - 50 : Service Block

The bottom 50 floors of the tower are primarily used to service the Tower's internal facilities. This largely consists of reserve power generation facilities and storage areas for both maintenance components and civilian purposes. By being close to the ground, these facilities are the safest in the event of an emergency, and while the civilian storage facilities are further away from most offices and residences, they minimize the time spent on transferring cargo to and from ground-level facilities.

#### 50 - 70 : Pseudostreet Block

The floors between the service block and primary civilian block are reserved for "street level" functions. This primarily includes consumer retail vendors- in essence making this block a large mall of sorts, though the scope of their facilities are radically larger. As these facilities are as close to the service block as ground-level facilities, they can expect similar transit times, which is of course beneficial in the event of extreme traffic.

#### 70-100 : Civilian Block A

Marking the first area to be filled entirely with offices and apartments, this block is unique for the fact it lacks the interspersed service blocks the upper two thirds of the tower does. This area is generally the cheapest to rent, comparable to more typical buildings in the surrounding area, with similar amounts of traffic.

### Central Levels

#### 100 - 190 : Civilian Block B

Civilian block B takes up the majority of the tower, consisting primarily of residential areas, with service and recreational areas distributed throughout.

This area notably is also where the support structures, including transit systems, are the densest, with the structures taking up almost a tenth of the mass in the most dense areas.

#### 190 - 225 : Elevated Aerodrome

This region is a port for specific air vehicles to access the Tower. Most aircraft are incompatible with the docking systems, as well as the lack of a true runway, however a number of small aircraft (most of them designed by Hawk) are capable of landing here, VTOLs and rotorcraft especially. Like the ground-level transit junction, this area is directly linked to the internal transit networks, with a small number of automated servicing systems.

### Pinnacle Levels

#### 225 - 265 : Civilian block C

This is the highest area generally accessible by the public, notably housing the most elaborate spaces in the entire tower, such as with the semi-open main elevator shaft, and its tiered gardens. This area also features a number of faux-outdoors recreational facilities, with a wider number of biomes being maintained at this level, at all times of year, due to the area being completely enclosed.

#### 265 - 295 : Hawk Headquarters

This area is generally inaccessible to civilians, barring the lobby level. Levels above the lobby are also not connected to the main non-cargo elevators.

This area serves as the headquarters for Hawk Industrial Solutions, though it consists of far fewer lab spaces than other facilities. A large amount of space here is reserved purely for computational systems, including Hawk's central data servers, the servers for the Tower's AI manager, and DARYL. This area also features space for some Hawk employees to live, most notably including the founders of the company- and would serve as such until their lives ended, as a result of their age.

#### 295 - 308 : "Black Zone"

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Very few are ever permitted to know about the going-ons of the Black Zone in the first place, mostly limited to the active leadership of the company, but there are areas even those few are not permitted to access.

#### 309+ : Roof

The absolute top of the Tower. Like most towers, very little goes on here, with most of the space being simply empty. The only significant feature here are the largely experimental (and to some extent, oversized) antennae, which despite their seeming importance are generally only used by Hawk's own facilities.