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LIBRARY

This a double carriage. On the bottom floor there is a corridor running along one side, with a door to enter the carriage itself in the middle of the corridor. Up the stairs on either end of the carriage, the space is open, relatively.

Downstairs appears similar to a public library. The walls are painted brightly and lined with shelves, most of which are empty. Labels indicate that fiction books should be stored here. The wall facing the door is alternating windows looking out into the Void, and posters that seem to be large, blown-up book covers for the more popular fiction books in the train.

Four tables with linked chairs are spaced throughout the car, each one painted one of the team colours, and beanbag chairs similar to those found in the Games carriage can also be seen scattered in a pile in one corner.

A little wooden train with shelves built into it winds its way through the tables, its shelves filled with all of the previously-purchased Merry Little Void Train literature and the first book of several of the encountered but unpurchased MLVT series, including several colouring books. There's room on its shelves for far more than it currently contains. Kheli the rabbit is painted leaning out of the engine window, waving.

Along the far wall to the right are two scanning machines, which can do the following: register new books - as a helpful tutorial on the screen will inform you; provide summaries of books if given a specific title; or check books out if presented with a valid ticket. Passengers can have up to eight books checked out at a time; if someone walks out of the carriage carrying a book not checked out by them, the ICP speakers in that carriage will beep obnoxiously for ten seconds.

Upstairs resembles an academic library. The wall next to the stairs is a similar bank of windows as downstairs, although lacking the colourful posters, instead dotted with landscape paintings of previously visited worlds and unknown worlds both. Rows of shelves divide the space into six smaller workspaces, each with a single-person desk with lamp and bookstand and another window above, bracketed by shelves on either side. The bookshelves muffle sound, creating semi-private spaces around each desk.

The shelves are empty, with labels on each shelf indicating that non-fiction books belong up here.

We will not OOCly be tracking books being checked in and out. If a book is not being returned, please reply to that book's comment to let people know that it isn't available.

Please comment below with any books your character is registering with the library computers, using the following form, to either the fiction or non-fiction top level and under the correct genre or subsection with the book's title as the subject header:

BOOK SEARCHES ~ FICTION ~ NON-FICTION
FICTION: Merry Little Voidtrain ~ Action/Adventure ~ Crime ~ War/Epic ~ Drama/Slice Of Life ~ Horror
NON-FICTION: Void ~ Historical/Travel ~ Educational ~ Entertainment ~ Arts/Sports ~ Philosophy/Religion ~ Health
OTHER: Recipes ~ Passenger Documents

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Donor: Webmind

Description: This is a basic history book and is a little dry but gives a basic overview of the formation of the Void Ministry.

~ It sprung from the first Void Treaty, which was the first formal agreement between the first six void-active systems to not interfere with each others worlds or hinder each others progress through the void.

~ As more worlds began gaining void-active status conflicts sprung up once more and it soon became obvious that a more formal organisation was needed to keep the peace.

~ Each of the first six systems had their own void travel organisations on their world and each designated a department to inter-world diplomacy. As worlds discovered the void and became able to travel within it representatives would travel there and bring them into the ever growing void network.

~ They also helped many worlds understand void travel better, helping them achieve void travel without the tragic trial and error that their own worlds had gone through. Allowing worlds to create robust, safe voidcraft and saving many lives.

~ It took a good few hundred years for them to become the interworld peace keeping force they are today.

~ Though they are mostly focused on diplomatic work they have been known to bring military might to solve problems.

~ When system #392 joined the network they were keen on having a more physical presence in the void, to protect people from void criminals as their own world had been plagued with them in the past. They built the Inspection arm of the void-minstry.

~ The ministry have been criticised in the past for how they treat worlds that do not wish to join the void-ministry controlled network but for the most part they now allow such worlds to travel the void without hindered unless they interfere in a void-ministry controlled world.

~ The organisation is now led by a council, consisting of two delegates from every void-active world. They have a void-hub headquarters in the void itself but for the most part people deal with the void ministry on their own worlds.

Library

The History of the Void Ministry