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'''Baseline''' is a small southwestern data city<ref group="note">In "[[PALISADE 03: Today Is a Monday|Today Is a Monday]]" Austin describes Baseline first as a "little town" and then a "city".</ref> on [[Palisade (planet)|Palisade]] that was built by, and is under the control of, the [[Frontier Syndicate]]. Following a failed revolution by Baseline's residents, the Frontier Syndicate begins to build other cities in the Baseline model around the planet, named Baseline-A, Baseline-B, and so on. | '''Baseline''' is a small southwestern data city<ref group="note">In "[[PALISADE 03: Today Is a Monday|Today Is a Monday]]" Austin describes Baseline first as a "little town" and then a "city".</ref> on [[Palisade (planet)|Palisade]] that was built by, and is under the control of, the [[Frontier Syndicate]]. Following a failed revolution by Baseline's residents, the Frontier Syndicate begins to build other cities in the Baseline model around the planet, named Baseline-A, Baseline-B, and so on. | ||
All Baseline cities are ruled over by [[Resonance]] or, more accurately, they ''are'' Resonance. As Austin puts it, "The city is the [[Divine]]."<ref name="pal33">[[PALISADE 33: Seize the Chance Pt. 4]]</ref> | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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{{Quote|Baseline is a data town, sort of like the doom towns of atomic test sites, these like, incredibly clearly fake places, except people [...] “get to,” quote/unquote, live there for free, in exchange for being subject to an endless array of social, medical, and psychological experiments, none of which they get to be informed about. They sign away their right to be informed and to consent to individual tests in order to live here for free and have tests run on them.|author=Austin|source=[[PALISADE 03: Today Is a Monday]]}} | {{Quote|Baseline is a data town, sort of like the doom towns of atomic test sites, these like, incredibly clearly fake places, except people [...] “get to,” quote/unquote, live there for free, in exchange for being subject to an endless array of social, medical, and psychological experiments, none of which they get to be informed about. They sign away their right to be informed and to consent to individual tests in order to live here for free and have tests run on them.|author=Austin|source=[[PALISADE 03: Today Is a Monday]]}} | ||
[[Gucci Garantine]] orders the [[Blue Channel (party)|Blue Channel]] to go to Baseline for their next sortie after [[The Canvas of Dreams|the mission]] to capture a VIP named "[[The Usher of Truth|Gem]]". [[Devotion]] commands Cori to build a church to it in Baseline during the same sortie.<ref>[[PALISADE 12: Worth the Trouble Pt. 1]]</ref> Instead, the Blue Channel disobeys orders and goes to the [[Isle of the Broken Key]].<ref>[[PALISADE 14: Upon Our Grace Pt. 1]]</ref> | [[Gucci Garantine]] orders the [[Blue Channel (party)|Blue Channel]] to go to Baseline for their next sortie after [[The Canvas of Dreams|the mission]] to capture a VIP named "[[The Usher of Truth|Gem]]". [[Devotion]] commands Cori to build a church to it in Baseline during the same sortie.<ref name="pal12">[[PALISADE 12: Worth the Trouble Pt. 1]]</ref> Instead, the Blue Channel disobeys orders and goes to the [[Isle of the Broken Key]].<ref name="pal14">[[PALISADE 14: Upon Our Grace Pt. 1]]</ref> | ||
=== Failed Revolution & Subsequent Baselines === | === Failed Revolution & Subsequent Baselines === | ||
{{Spoiler header|section=section|spoiling=[[PALISADE 27: Resentment and Frustration Pt. 2]]|theme=pal}} | {{Spoiler header|section=section|spoiling=[[PALISADE 27: Resentment and Frustration Pt. 2]]|theme=pal}} | ||
Residents of Baseline attempt a revolution that badly fails.<ref name="PAL17">[[PALISADE 17: Upon Our Grace Pt. 4]]</ref> Many people are killed,<ref>[[PALISADE 21: In Their Fear Pt. 2]]</ref> including [[Ce Gull]] and [[Broadleaf]], and the Frontier Syndicate's plans for Baseline succeed: within weeks, new versions of Baseline are popping up all over the planet.<ref name="PAL17" /> | Residents of Baseline attempt a revolution that badly fails.<ref name="PAL17">[[PALISADE 17: Upon Our Grace Pt. 4]]</ref> Many people are killed,<ref name="pal21">[[PALISADE 21: In Their Fear Pt. 2]]</ref> including [[Ce Gull]] and [[Broadleaf]], and the Frontier Syndicate's plans for Baseline succeed: within weeks, new versions of Baseline are popping up all over the planet.<ref name="PAL17" /> | ||
Each of these new cities is built in a concentric circle around a massive central structure that is a sort of power station, similar in aesthetic to other Frontier Syndicate architecture: "showrooms with large windows and big steel curvature ... almost like luxury car headquarters." From each structure emerges an elongated egg-shaped and egg-coloured smokestack, except rather than emitting fumes, they somehow suck hard, low-poly, black clouds out of clear sky. Enabled by the Frontier Syndicate's harvesting of the final [[Fundament]] node, these refineries are siphoning [[Motion]] out of the [[Kalmeria Particle|Kalmeria]] in the air in a project meant to resurrect her.<ref>[[PALISADE 27: Resentment and Frustration Pt. 2]]</ref> | Each of these new cities is built in a concentric circle around a massive central structure that is a sort of power station, similar in aesthetic to other Frontier Syndicate architecture: "showrooms with large windows and big steel curvature ... almost like luxury car headquarters." From each structure emerges an elongated egg-shaped and egg-coloured smokestack, except rather than emitting fumes, they somehow suck hard, low-poly, black clouds out of clear sky. Enabled by the Frontier Syndicate's harvesting of the final [[Fundament]] node, these refineries are siphoning [[Motion]] out of the [[Kalmeria Particle|Kalmeria]] in the air in a project meant to resurrect her.<ref name="pal27>[[PALISADE 27: Resentment and Frustration Pt. 2]]</ref> | ||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
Latest revision as of 12:40, 27 July 2024
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Baseline is a model city. We all love City City, but we can’t all afford to be in City City. But everybody can afford to be in Baseline. That’s why it’s called Baseline. Baseline is an opportunity. Baseline is the future for the people who can’t quite reach the future, but want to be the future.”
Baseline is a small southwestern data city[note 1] on Palisade that was built by, and is under the control of, the Frontier Syndicate. Following a failed revolution by Baseline's residents, the Frontier Syndicate begins to build other cities in the Baseline model around the planet, named Baseline-A, Baseline-B, and so on.
All Baseline cities are ruled over by Resonance or, more accurately, they are Resonance. As Austin puts it, "The city is the Divine."[1]
History[edit | edit source]
Original Baseline[edit | edit source]
It was created as a model city by the Frontier Syndicate, which advertises it as a more affordable variation on City City.[2][note 2] Of course, the "affordability" comes with its own price:
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Baseline is a data town, sort of like the doom towns of atomic test sites, these like, incredibly clearly fake places, except people [...] “get to,” quote/unquote, live there for free, in exchange for being subject to an endless array of social, medical, and psychological experiments, none of which they get to be informed about. They sign away their right to be informed and to consent to individual tests in order to live here for free and have tests run on them.”
Gucci Garantine orders the Blue Channel to go to Baseline for their next sortie after the mission to capture a VIP named "Gem". Devotion commands Cori to build a church to it in Baseline during the same sortie.[3] Instead, the Blue Channel disobeys orders and goes to the Isle of the Broken Key.[4]
Failed Revolution & Subsequent Baselines[edit | edit source]
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Spoiler warning! This section contains major spoilers for PALISADE 27: Resentment and Frustration Pt. 2. Tread carefully! |
Residents of Baseline attempt a revolution that badly fails.[2] Many people are killed,[5] including Ce Gull and Broadleaf, and the Frontier Syndicate's plans for Baseline succeed: within weeks, new versions of Baseline are popping up all over the planet.[2]
Each of these new cities is built in a concentric circle around a massive central structure that is a sort of power station, similar in aesthetic to other Frontier Syndicate architecture: "showrooms with large windows and big steel curvature ... almost like luxury car headquarters." From each structure emerges an elongated egg-shaped and egg-coloured smokestack, except rather than emitting fumes, they somehow suck hard, low-poly, black clouds out of clear sky. Enabled by the Frontier Syndicate's harvesting of the final Fundament node, these refineries are siphoning Motion out of the Kalmeria in the air in a project meant to resurrect her.[6]
Footnotes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ In "Today Is a Monday" Austin describes Baseline first as a "little town" and then a "city".
- ↑ City City is, in fact, an output of experiments done in Baseline.