Super Queen-Mother. Book III. The Seventh
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Super Queen-Mother pondered over her plan – what else she could do with the park zone at the lower tier of the plot of land, allocated to her, and… left it for the architects, to unite everything in one whole.
The upper tier of the tableland, just above the lower one, was her proximate place of work. It was a small mountainous plateau, stretching along the river, slightly sloping to the lower tier and ending in a rock-chasm.
She drew one hundred feet high fort walls at the precipice, with square towers at the corners and semicircular ones along the walls. Super Queen-Mother planned a wide walking path on them, under a transparent glass shed.
The walls of the fortress would extend not only over the lower tier of the site, but would also surround the upper tableland.
Along the wall there had to be a walking path and a bikeway.
The lowering part of the mountainous plateau had to be raised much higher by means of grouted concrete ceilings, supported by concrete poles.
She planned to provide the buildings with parking facilities, a power plant, all housing services and public utilities.
The remaining part of the plateau Super Queen-Mother divided into:
– Administrative zone, where they had to work;
– A housing area;
– A sport zone;
– An entertainment zone;
– A park.
The park zone was a small woodland on the lowering part of the plateau, bounded by the precipice, the river and the road, leading to a huge abandoned foundation pit (Super Queen-Mother planned to make an excellent lake out of it, filled with large carps).
The park had to be fenced and provided with iron lanes, raised over the ground, not to interfere with the movements of the forest dwellers.
Between the administrative sector and the housing zone would be a theatre, a restaurant, a multiplex and several hotels.
Super Queen-Mother decided to design the housing sector with seven-storey buildings with dwelling mansards, and fretwork on the front, around the windows and doors.
She also included numerous small cafes on narrow paved streets and shops on the first floors of the buildings.
A stadium, a swimming pool and open sport sites had to be near the housing sector.
At the top she planned a big church and a sightseeing platform a thousand feet from it, with five or seven cafes.
Super Queen-Mother marked a layout scheme of buildings and constructions on the map, invited the architects over and told them what she wished.
Their meeting was short; they at once went to the spot to define the boundaries of the planned construction.
Super Queen-Mother decided to help the builders and cut out a tunnel, connecting the mountainous and insular parts of the project, thus accelerating the construction.
The workers had only to smooth the floor of the tunnel, to fit out ground-water runoff on the left and on the right, and to lay a rail track alongside with the auto-road.
Thereafter nobody had time to turn round. The architects controlled the construction. Documentation was being prepared and signed in parallel with construction.
The builders worked in three shifts.
The islands were laid with granite boulders.
The bridge, connecting the tunnel and the island, was asphalted.
A high dam was built at the spot of the confluence of the rivers.
The river beds were widened and reinforced.
The banks of both rivers were raised and decorated with granite tile and marble banisters.
People planted many trees, and builders made many fountains. A large park sprang up near the newly made lake. Part of the lake joined with the canyon.
On the top of the plateau, where Super Queen-Mother’s place of work had to be, the workers were concreting the foundations of the buildings.
Narrow pedestrian streets and sidewalks were paved with durable granite.
Constructional materials were supplied in a steady flow. Tens of thousands of people were working from morning till late at night.
For the period of the construction, Super Queen-Mother lived in a cottage, situated not far from the buildings where her services of the Earth managing were.
To store all the information, Super Queen-Mother used the hall of the Earth Keepers.
There she walked her live body and worked in it.
She had plenty of work and had to digest the material that the Galaxy had sent her. She wanted to select the most important things to understand what to do first.
It took a lot of time, and Super Queen-Mother asked the managerial staff of the Galaxy “Milky Way” to systemize the information before sending it to her.
It would be easier to understand where to begin to go in the right direction, step after step.
The Earth Keepers did not interfere with her work. They were silently observing how she was doing.
All divisions of her department were overloaded with the new information. The staff worked till late.
A great many in new technologies surprised them:
A small flying apparatus in a blink shifted to any designated spot. It did not need to be controlled and did all that was required of it.
She was particularly impressed by some sub-disciplines of galactic medicine, notably by the properties of keratinized (dead) cells: it appeared they sent bad (dark) information to the body, in the form of energy, which was able to run even to its inward parts and to cause illnesses.