Chacal wrote:Detail: It seems strange that a door with a rounded top would open downwards. This would normally leave a huge gap in the floor. Also the energy required to move a door back up is far greater than that needed if it slid sideways.
Yeesha must have some kind of nuclear power-plant that powers her enter-the-tree door. Her door even has massive friction from rough rock against damp soil. You need a lot of power for it, especially in prologue and the start of UU when you had tons of people wanting to get past the cleft at the same time.
/me gets the idea of running a computer cluster just by adding a computer to an age and then making tons of instances, this'd work if ages behaved a bit like threads