OLYMPUS
|
OLYMPUS
Olympus is a man made
floating city somewhere between the Azores and Canary
Islands. An arcology city, it rises to an astonishing
2,626 feet. Built before the war, Olympus is the most
technologically advanced city in the world. Other cities
use it as a model for there own rebuilding, although when
it was first costructed it was looked upon with
disproval.
Built to be the perfect city,
Olympus is completely cybernetically controlled. The
arcolgies are designed to minimize shadows in winter and
optical fibers bring natural sunlight inside. Olympus
would seem a true utopia, but terrorism and political
conflict are always lying in wait in the shadows as the
rest of the world clambers greedily for its piece of the
Olympus dream. The biggest political debate in Olympus is
the ethnic rights differences between humans and
bio-riods.
|
 |
 |
GAIA
Olympus is
controlled by a super computer called Gaia. Designed to
monitor and maintain the living environment of Olympus,
Gaia controls electricity, transportation, water,
communications, politics and all other essentials that
keep the city running trouble free. The computer itself
is incredibly large and complex, it was feared that
someday the knowledge to repair it might be lost so it
was designed to make self repairs and generally only non
humans (clones and bio-riods) are allowed within the
vicinity of Gaia. Gaia itself is the most technologically
advanced machine in the most technologically advanced
city in the world and is a major target for terrorism and
sabotage. Gaia's other main duty is to impartially
legislate between humans and bio-riods. And only the
Director can has the authority to intervene with Gaia. A
group of seven bio-riods known as the "The
Council" who are programmed and tested for morallity
and intelligence act as Gaia's CPU. Because of this,
attempting to tamper with or otherwise illegally effect
Gaia in any way is considered treason. The Gaia building
is the single most heavily secured in the city.
|
THE
CITIZENS OF OLYMPUS
Olympus is huge
and home to a very large population. Eighty percent of
the population of Olympus are clones and bio-riods.
Bio-roids were created by the pacifist leaders who built
Olympus. Bio-riods are clones with genetic material from
multiple mother sources , called hybrids. They go through
special processing, including personality and emotional
responses conditioned by training, education, and the
child rearing environment. They can be considered the
most compact , complex, and sophisticated robots
imaginable and for all other aspects are
indistinguishable from humans. Clones and bio-riods are
equal citizens under Olympus law and for the most part
are treated impartially, although some factions of the
human and Bio-riod population call out discrimination and
embark on acts of ethnic terrorism. Clones and bio-riods
both require periodic longevity treatments, (a recharging
of their biological systems) with out which they become
anemic, lethargic and eventually die. With money any true
human can have a clone made. The majority of humans in
Olympus are scouted the counsel and brought in by agents
of the Council and Aegis. Under the New Original Species
Act true humans are not eligible for life extension. |
 |
PLACES
TO GO IN OLYMPUS
Coffee House Onimal
Hitomi's
coffee house and former home. Actually this is more of a bar than
a coffee house and Hitomi uses the top floor as a dormitory for
new citizens until they are established in the city.
Akechi Motors
The place to go if
your looking to buy or repair a landmate or vehicle. Akechi
motors specializes in the sale and of Police and civilian
landmates they also have a well equiped garage and an unblemished
record for making repairs to whatever is brought before them.
Although this is only one of such places in the city, I list this
one because it employs everyone's favorite motor-head Yoshi, who
will be more than happy to repair whatever you have and may
provide a discount if the machine is to his liking and you let
him play with it after its fixed.
Giai Building
This rather large
building houses the super computer that runs all of Olympus. As
stated earlier, this structure has the tightest security in
Olympus.
E-SWAT Headquarters
This massive
police structure is home to E-SWAT. It houses all aspects of
E-SWAT operations, including a huge training area.
THE WORLD OF APPLESEED | APPLESEED
TIMELINE
| THE CITY OF OLYMPUS | E-SWAT | CHARACTERS
OF APPLESEED
CYBORGS CLONES AND BIO-RIODS | TERMINOLOGY
OF APPLESEED | MASAMUNE SHIROW
TECH