The Engineers

Logo by PowTeaPea

The Engineers were a group on Specterium founded by The\_Biblioklept tasked with maintaining and creating the infrastructure of the server such as the highways, the canals, The Netherlobby, and Spawn itself.

It was more so a discord group for people who worked on the highways to talk about ideas, plans, damage on the highway and sometimes working together on a bigger project, than an actual connected group.

## History

When Biblio came back to Spec in early June 2020, he decided to finally create the highway team he had talked about in March. He made a discord and invited some of his friends, like Eccentricat, CRD716, Michi games, 0Xed(Denied) and v6q. Later PowPeaTea, HankStultus, Storm, Perstrix and vRoyschouten would also join it. Originally it was called The Infrastructure group, but later Michi came up with the name: "The Ingenious Engineers", this changed into just "The Engineers" after suggested by PowTeaPea and consensus was reached.

On 17/06/2020, Michi finished The Office, an Engineers' outpost, after 3 days of building. Meanwhile PowPeaTea also built an outpost, The Tavern.

In July Hankstulus builds a ringroad at 10K, it's 1x2.

On 25/07/2020, Michi calls for an End Excavation and a big highway repair, because a lot of obsidian was removed from the -X highway. On the 27th fully repair the -X highway and make the Z highway both obsidian until 1K. They also build a ringroad at 500 blocks out. However, Edok did a 20-hour rollback on the server because the map got corrupted, so their work got removed. The next day Perstrix and Michi repair the -X highway again.

On the same day, Biblio announced he would step down from being the leader as he stated that he hadn't done that much as leader (besides coming up with ideas) and the group seemed great at self-organization. So now the group is a democracy.

On 07/08/2020, SoloMaker joins the group and starts working on the 2k ringroad.

On 11/08/2020, Michi rebuilds the 500 ring road.

On 13/08/2020, PowTeaPea starts work on the 20k ringroad

On October 16th Biblio announced that he is quitting Spec, so he disbands the engineers, although they hadn't been very active for a long time.

## Planned future projects

They had many ideas for projects, most of them were never realised.

* The highways: just making the highways longer and improving them by adding obisdian, also repairing the highways
* The canals: Biblio wants to repair and expand The Eastern Canal, while also making a southern, western and northern one so spawn will be surrounded by canals.
* Ring roads: highways to connect the main highways to each other, they build one at 10K, but this one is 1x2. They also build one at 500 which was 2x3, but it got removed due to a rollback. They have plans for ones at 1K, 2K, and 5K, maybe also at 1.5K and 2.5K.
* Making the diagonals longer.
* Maybe also working on the overworld highways.
* Biblio wants to work more on The Superhighway and making it longer.
* Building the Eastern Maintenance Tunnel, a small tunnel between the Superhighway and the +x highway.
* Making spawn farms like Mesopotamia III.
* Maintaining the Netherhub and the portals at 0,0.
* MiniHubs: creating some mini-hubs on the highways (every 25k)

## Roles

* Highway Engineer
* Canal Engineer
* Spawn Cleaner
* Farmer(works on the spawn farms)
* Base builder(building outposts like The Office)
* Surveyor(looking how far highways go and reporting damage)
* Donator(just donating items)
* Helper(helping with all kinds of stuff, but not doing that much as the main roles)

## Members

### Old leader

* The Biblioklept(basically has all roles)

### Members

* Michi games(highway engineer, spawn cleaner, base builder, helper, donator, kinda surveyor)
* PowPeaTea(highway engineer, spawn cleaner, base builder)
* Storm(highway engineer, donator, helper)
* v6q(highway engineer)
* Perstrix(highway engineer, surveyor, canal engineer, donator)
* HankStultus(highway engineer)
* SoloMaker(highway engineer)

### Players who are in the discord but don't have a role yet

* Eccentricat
* 0Xed(Denied)
* MrEDok
* CRD716
* vRoyschouten

## Languages

There are two languages currently in creation for The Engineers called Tlânłae & Dantee respectively. They're being made recreationally rather than functionally. Both are noted for not having gender/sex distinctions, instead distinguishing between animate and innanimate, as well as having a dual grammatical number as well as plural, and only having 5 main color words. (One for black, white, gray, red/orange/yellow/brown, & green/blue/purple/pink). Dantee is highly agglutinative and features inverse number, while Tlânłae is analytic, and does not. Tlânłae features a dual number base, both base-6 & base-4. Dantee has a third number base of 12.