Berlin, Earth Europe

### Description:

Berlin is a dig site and former city in Earth Europe with spectacular gleaming spires.

## History

Most details of Berlin in the 21st and 22nd centuries were lost during the Earth data net crash.

Thaddeus Carmichael Wallam-Crane designed the Berlin Spire Complex during the 23rd century as one of his "City Heart Rebuild" projects. Unlike the other City Heart projects, the Berlin Spire Complex was actually intended and used as accommodation for people. The Berlin Spire Complex was inhabited late into Exodus Century.

## Berlin Spire Complex

At the center of Berlin is the Berlin Spire Complex, a glittery interconnected mass of spires. The Spire Complex covers a huge area and the ones at the center are especially tall, shocking visitors.

The spires have walls and center staircases both made out of diamene, but their floors were made out of a different material and have grown brittle. The spires' exterior walls are mostly window frames and windows with fragments of broken glass. The spires also have pointed roofs. The spires are more intact than many skyscrapers in other cities are.

Finally, the entire Berlin Spire Complex had a shield that could be opened and closed and protected it from extreme weather and pollution. The shield did not survive, nor did any pictures of it.

After the events of 2789 when the histories were reminded of Carmichael's Humanity Habitats projects, Lecturer Playdon now believes that the Berlin Spire Complex was a forerunner of the other Humanity Habitats as unlike the other City Heart projects the Spire Complex was meant to be lived in.

## Dig Site

Berlin Main Dig Site is composed of the Berlin Spire Complex and its surroundings. It has a high hazard rating and Foundation classes are normally not allowed to work on it. The Spire Circle is a double clearway that encircles the entire Spire Complex, with other clearways potentially intersecting it like spokes on a wheel.

Archaeologists working on the Berlin Spire Complex face unique challenges from the hard and trustworthy walls and the brittle floors. To access the floors, archaeologists use line rifles to fire lead lines and anchors up into the diamene walls. It is very hard to get the lead lines to anchor properly, requiring an almost approximately perpendicular angle and high speed. When ascending above 10 storys, archaeologists always do double ascensions, so two people going up at the same time. Once the lead lines are anchored and deployed, archaeologists send up ropes, perform safety tests, and finally ascend via winches.

Archaeologists use pitons and piton guns to secure themselves to the sides of skyscrapers. Piton guns can be fired from nearly touching the wall to 10 steps away, though within 5 steps is preferable to avoid ricochets. Archaeologists wear harnesses over their impact suits that can connect to two points, for instance a winch and a safety line to the other archaeologist or a single connection to a secure piton. Pitons are secure when the red section is fully imbedded and not visible.

To cross the brittle floors, archaeologists use special hover boards.

The Berlin Spire Complex is an attractive dig site to archaeologists because it has a high number of stasis boxes.

## Earth Flight

In *Earth Flight,* while hiding from the people trying to kill her, Jarra encouraged her former teacher Croizer, who assisted her, to visit other former students of his at Berlin Main Dig Site.

## Earth Prime

In *Earth Prime*, the Asgard 6 class spends the last part of the year on Berlin Main dig site. While there, Cassandra 2 gives Jarra and Steen skyscraper ascension training.

Jarra has a very eventful training day. During her first ascension, while Jarra was setting up for her training jump, Todd crashed the private comms between Jarra and Keren, causing Jarra to lose her footing from the window and fall, swinging around. Her backpack and harness got impaled with glass shards, but she was able to release herself before the glass penetrated her impact suit and fell down on to the safety cushion.

During her second ascension, Jarra rescued a sapling growing on the side of the spire that she would later use in her Next of Kin memorial. After Jarra and Keren reached the 30th floor, a hostile Military agent impersonating George Gradin used a civilian plane to attack Jarra. The Military agent used an incendiary weapon and a hand-held missile launcher to attack Jarra, along with the archaeologists who were counterattacking. The Military agent was captured by Drago Tell Dramis and Marlise Weldon in their special prototype planes and he was revealed to be Major Maven.

After the Military agent was neutralized, Keren, Playdon, and Stephan rescued Jarra from the spire.

## Footnotes

### Notes

*Further information: Thaddeus Carmichael Wallam-Crane and Humanity Habitats*

### References

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) . Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) . Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.