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EARTHLIGHT

E2 E3 E4 from about Y+54 Running

AlsoEARTHLIGHT - A CITY FOR THE MOON; the sheets; Rev C full set; EARTHLIGHT_rev_c_full_set.pdf

Teo's hand-drawn city for the Mare Tranquillitatis pit: fourteen sheets in white ink on Prussian blue, orange for the bad news, given away free the moment they are stamped; Tranquility Homestead built Phase 1 from them, and whatever he issues, its robots build, with a girl inside.

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EARTHLIGHT, A CITY FOR THE MOON, Sheet 1 of 14: white ink on Prussian blue, orange for the bad news, ONE WINDOW, FACING EARTH {E2 0:35-3:31} edit

All fourteen sheets edge to edge {E2 19:25} edit

The other earthlight: full Earth, fixed 56 degrees up over the base, bright enough to read by {E2} edit

At a glance

Kind: Work
from: about Y+54Running {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §1: begun six years before Episode 2}
In: E2 E3 E4 dashed: not released yet
Lines: 49
File: things/earthlight.md

Teo has drawn EARTHLIGHT live for six years, one sheet at a time, as an art project, and given every sheet away. "Most cities grow around a river. This one grows around a window." On Episode 2's night he re-issues the whole set as Rev C, calmly explaining every way a resident could die, not knowing that a homestead built Phase 1 from his old revisions and set its fleet to build whatever he issues next, or that a ten-year-old is watching from inside Sheet 3. When he decides phase one was his mistake and voids it, the fleet starts taking her room apart. The set's one checked drawing is the one she checks with him, Rev B. In Episode 3 it is an ordinary PDF in someone's Downloads; in Episode 4 its look is how a city draws.

On the Y axisY0 = the night of Episode 1

E2 about 6 Running
E3 1–9 Open
E4 about 9 Running

Ages at each episode come from the birth year and the episode's place on the axis, and are only as sure as the weaker of the two (their mark says which). Empty decades are drawn short, at the break marks. EARTHLIGHT on the whole timeline →

What17 lines

RunningThe title names four things, never said aloud: the city, the light of a full Earth on the lunar night, the only light in Noor's room after 21:05, and her name. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT §1} edit
RunningNoor means light. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT §1} edit
On screen"Most cities grow around a river. This one grows around a window." {E2 00:24-00:28} edit
On screenHe letters EARTHLIGHT through a template: "Title block first." {E2 00:10-00:34} edit
On screenFourteen sheets: 1 SITE, 2 PAD + BERM, 3 PHASE 1 RESIDENTIAL MODULE, 4 GREENHOUSE, 5 BATTERY THROUGH ONE NIGHT, 6 PHASE 2 REACTOR, 7 THE TUNNELS. {E2 19:28} edit
On screen8 THE SCRUBBER, 9 THE SUIT, 10 FOOD SHELF LIFE, 11 LANDINGS 2019-2025, 12 THE TIMELINE IS EVERYTHING, 13 RADIATION, 14 TEA HOUSE. {E2 19:28} edit
On screenWhite ink on Prussian-blue paper, graphs on graph paper, every brutal note in orange paint marker. {E2 00:35-19:35} edit
On screenTitle block: EARTHLIGHT - A CITY FOR THE MOON - REV C - SHEET n OF 14 - DRN T.V. - CHK (empty) - APPR (empty). {E2 00:34} edit
On screenSheet 1 also reads PHASE 1 (BUILT) - POP. 13. {E2 00:34} edit
On screenThe city goes in the pit; the surface is temporary; every room gets one window facing Earth. {E2 01:38-01:50} edit
On screenEvery sheet goes up free the moment it is stamped: "Free. Build whatever you like with them." {E2 01:54-01:58} edit
On screenSheet 3: fourteen bunks, one window (the weakest point), design life two years, occupancy 14 adults. {E2 04:39-05:27} edit
On screenSheet 3's Note 9, END OF LIFE: strip shielding, salvage greenhouse, recall units, isolate power, vent last. {E2 05:00-05:27} edit
On screenSheet 12: phase one on the surface (two years at most), then the pit, then the tea house "for morale"; if phase two is late: space, then power, then food. {E2 05:28-06:07} edit
On screenSheet 14: a small tea house in the pit, a gate, a path, and one note: FOR NO REASON. {E2 12:33} edit
On screenOn about forty open-hardware repos; "people build from them". {E2 17:55} edit
RunningDrawn live, one sheet at a time, for six years as an art project; Rev A/B were the sheets Phase 1 was built from. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §1; §10} edit

On the Y axis3 lines

Runningabout Y+54 Teo starts drawing it live on longhand, every sheet free under an open licence. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §1} edit
Runningabout Y+55..56 Tranquility Homestead builds Phase 1 from Rev A/B, uncredited. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
On screenabout Y+60 Re-issued as Rev C, the full set, sheet 1 to 14, on Episode 2's night. {E2 00:19; 00:35} edit

By episode17 lines

Earthlight

On screen"Tonight, the whole set again, properly." {E2 00:19-00:35} edit
On screenEach sheet he stamps ISSUED wakes a robot outside Noor's window in the same frame: MOLE-1 at Sheet 2, DRAY at Sheet 4. {E2 03:31; 08:20} edit
On screenAll fourteen laid edge to edge: "So. The whole set. Edge to edge." "That's the honest version." {E2 19:28-19:35} edit
On screen"Phase one is where I went wrong. Nobody should ever have to live in phase one. Let's start it again." He stamps Sheet 3 VOID. {E2 19:45-19:58.72} edit
On screenAfter the VOID a new phase one is drawn: underground, three metres of regolith over everything, no windows, cameras. {E2 21:58-22:13} edit
On screenOn the call Sheet 3 is redrawn as Rev B, and Noor checks it. {E2 26:45-28:14} edit
On screenSheet 1's POP. 13 becomes 14. {E2 29:15-29:30} edit
On screenIn the chaos the fourteen sheets fly into a grid around Sheet 3 Rev B. {E2 29:46} edit
EggThe ghost of a rubbed-out one-window cabin stays on Sheet 1 all night. {E2 02:57.5; 29:15} edit

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not released yet

Egg~/Downloads/EARTHLIGHT_rev_c_full_set.pdf (online-only, 38.2 MB), an ordinary download. {E3 ~2:11-2:21; E3-EGG-02} edit
EggTwo leftover rows in Bea's credits sheet: Drawn ........ T.V. and Checked ........ N. {E3 17:09-17:38; 26:39; E3-EGG-26} edit
RunningBecause Rev C was issued on Episode 2's night, this file is one of three verified eggs that put Episode 3 after Episode 2. {E3-EGG-02; eggs sweep contradictions} edit
On screenRhyme: the title typed by hand with a mistake fixed (CONTEXT WINOW, then the D), as EARTHLIGHT was lettered through a template. {E3 0:10-0:35} edit

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