The bedrooms unlock via palm scan, so knocking is usually required.
You can add someone else's scan if you want — for example, Shiro has access to Keith’s room, but not the other way around. Because Shiro forgot how to configure the system and refuses to admit it.
Lance, by the way, is the only person Coran ever let into his own quarters. For a while, the others didn’t even know where Coran's room was.
All information in the Castle first appears in Altean, and only then gets translated.
It’s mostly auto-translated into English. Sometimes with a delay. Lance often stares at the flashing symbols and pretends he's just "refreshing his basic Altean." Some words don’t get translated at all — like “quiznak.”
There are three active time systems running in the Castle.
There’s internal Castle time — which is basically the default. Earth time — synced via Lance’s phone and Pidge’s laptop. And local time — based on the planet or star system they’re near. Keith follows the first, Pidge the third, and Lance is just late either way.
Room temperatures are manually adjustable.
Each living quarter has custom settings — Hunk keeps his warm and humid like back home, Keith’s is somewhere in the middle, and Lance… tropical. Shared areas require approval from Allura or Coran — ever since Pidge accidentally set a hallway to -30°C.
Gravity is adaptive to crew biology and/or the local planet.
That way, you don’t feel a pressure shift when entering or leaving the Castle. But sometimes it glitches — especially right after warp jumps. Everyone ends up slightly hovering. Hunk has caught Lance mid-air more than once in the hallway.
Voice commands don’t always work perfectly.
The system responds to Altean intonation, so the paladins have to speak very clearly. Shiro ends up repeating every command twice. After six failed attempts to open a door, Pidge just silently walks over and hits the button manually.
Laundry goes through a special chute system.
You leave your suit inside — it gets cleaned, sanitized, and neatly folded. But if you show up covered in mud, blood, or alien slime — which, to be fair, happens — the system rejects it. Then you’re stuck handwashing like it’s Earth. Lance calls it “a betrayal of progress.”
Security and access control are absolutely ridiculous.
For the core seven, the Castle is fully open. But outsiders can’t even move between floors without a paladin escort. Sometimes, they can’t even open a door.
P.S. The paladins are 100% convinced the Castle is alive
(and only tolerates them out of respect for Allura and Coran.)
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TLT World Building: The Nine Houses and the Logistics of Space Empires
Building off my earlier post about stele-and-obelisk travel and the River, I wanted to talk about something that's been rattling around my mind for a while, which is subluminary travel and the logistics of the Nine Houses.
One of the things that has been brought up as a criticism of Muir's world-building as far back as Gideon the Ninth is that the Empire seems to have very, very fast non-FTL travel, such that Gideon and Harrow travel the 3.3 billion miles from Pluto to Earth in an hour, without using a stele. How, it was asked, does an Empire whose military relies on swords and whose medical knowledge is incredibly uneven at best, accomplish a technological feat of that magnitude?
I think we got an answer for that in Nona the Ninth:
“That ship’s not big enough for a stele. Don’t know if it’s big enough for subluminary travel, even. How did it get here?”
Crown leant back in her chair, staring at the projector screen, head balanced in the crook of one golden arm. Nona noticed that her biceps showed even through her shirt, and that there were rubber bandages wrapped around one palm. She said, “Oh, that’s big enough for subluminary travel, Millie. See the double struts, and the massive exhaust? That’s a Ziz-class.”
...Crown continued, “The Ziz isn’t Cohort standard. And it’s not as big on the inside as you think. Look at the windows—see how there’re none on the back end? It’s mostly engine. Not plated either. It’ll get to sublume without many problems … but it definitely doesn’t have room for a stele. Camilla is right. It can’t travel by obelisk anchor.”
Pyrrha said suddenly, “Crown. How’s the fuel consumption on a Ziz-class ship?”
“Thirsty,” said Crown, brightening up at being asked. “Its cell would be totally drained after a day in subluminary. It only takes the powerful stuff too—thalergy-enriched, not just hydrogen blend. Hydrogen blend stuffs up the engine.”
The answer is necromancy. (Because of course it is.) The Empire infuses shuttle fuel with thalergy - and we know that the necromantic specialty of the Second House is to "drain thalergy from any living source and use it," so the Empire can treat thalergy as a fungible resource that they can extract, store, and then use somewhere else. Moreover, we know that the necromantic specialty of the Fourth House is "exciting thanergy into a state of fission" in order to produce explosions.
Since necromancy can easily convert thalergy into thanergy, I think that the Empire's higher-end shuttles are powered by necromantic pulse propulsion, such that shuttle fuel is burned to produce thrust, but then at the same time the thanergy is turned into a massive fission explosion behind the shuttle, producing even more thrust.
I think this also explains why the Second and Fourth are so disproportionately represented in the Cohort, because in addition to producing soldiers for the front lines, they're heavily involved with making the Cohort Fleets move. (I'm going to further speculate that the Fourth make up a lot of the Fleets' pilots, since that would fit their necromantic specialties, the nature of their planet, and their image as gung-ho "go fast" types.)
This leads me to a few conclusions:
it explains why the Empire is so focused on short-term extraction; it's essentially stripping the thalergy for fuel to power subluminary transportation in the Dominicus system and beyond, in the same way that we're burning fossil fuels to power our economies today. There is a profound irony in that Mr. Environmentalist John Gaius has so precisely recreated the dynamics of the carbon economy through necromancy.
it explains how logistics in the Nine Houses work. If you can use necromantic fission drives to get from the outer edge of the Dominicus system to the core that quickly, than most of the logistical complexities of running a multiplanetary economy fall away. All you have to do is get your transport shuttle full of goods from the colonies to a stele at the edge of the Dominicus system, and then necromantic fission solves the "last mile problem" of getting your Necro-Amazon "just-in-time" deliveries to the hungry markets of the Third or the Fifth. You don't need to worry about the fact that you can't produce a lot of organic resources on thanergetic planets (especially ones that are space stations and the like rather than fully terraformed), because you just have everything delivered.
it similarly explains how logistics out in the colonies work. Even if you're at the edge of the stele network, necromantic fission shuttles can transport goods between planets in the same solar system with relative ease. It only becomes an issue when you're a ways out from the edge of the network, because that involves burning more thalergy-enriched fuel. Hence why Corona talks about "the Cohort movements didn’t make sense to her...shepherd planets got more costly the further the Houses extended themselves."
This makes me think of necromancy in a different way than I had before. Rather than just being about magic and warfare, necromancy is essentially the technology of the Nine Houses (aside from some legacy technologies that they have left over from pre-Resurrection), the tool that they use to solve all of their problems and make their society and economy and government function.
European governments must commit more funding for the program to achieve its goals.
More progress on a European commercial cargo vehicle, though the timeline is a little aggressive without reforms to the European funding and contracting rules that have hamstrung past efforts.
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