Cloak Room

A room in the form is a large hall filled with an enormous amount of quantom storage. It is used to temporarely store items handed in by visitors to the archive. It can store any type of item as they are stored in dematerialized digital form.

Structure

This large hall is surrounded by massive walls and shields for security. The building itself is filled with large containers which each contain several thousand storage boxes. These containers are EM shielded.

The containers are only accessible via a network of maintenance tunnels. These tunnels are equipped with magnetic rails which the drones use to move quickly. Each container is connected via cables to the cold fusion reactors and the data transmitters.

The cold fusion reactors are located in each corner and the middle of each side. Plus one at the center of the entire hall. The data transmitters can be found interspersed with the containers regulary. There is about 1 data transmitter per 25 containers.

Storage Process

The process to store and retrieve items from the cloak room is very simple to use. It is backed by a highly advanced mechanism which can digitize any object for storage and then re-materialize them after the fact.

In order to store items they are placed into a storage receiver. This receiver first scans anything placed into it for security threats. After everything is cleared the items are scanned a second time to store their data. This is required to be able to replicate them exactly. Once the molecular structure of each item is stored they are de-materialized. Then this data is sent to a storage box. The receiver then prints out a ticket with a code which identifies the owner of the storage box content. This ticket is required to retrieve the deposited items.

A retrieval station can be used to retrieve the stored items. It replicates the items deposited via the stored data using energy from one of the cold fusion reactors. In order to initiate a retrieval a ticket has to be fed into the station. The ticket is then used to determine the storage box from which to retrieve the items. After replication they can be returned to the visitor.

Storage Boxes

Storage boxes are highly advanced containers which require a lot of energy to function. The storage boxes can be configured to store pretty much anything and are impossible to destroy. Everthing within a storage box is kept in digital form. While within the storage box no changes occur to the contents.

Loss of energy would be catastrophic as the digital form of the stored contents would be lost. Periodically the contents of the storage boxes are checked for their age and integrity. Each time this check is performed the contents are rewritten to ensure their integrity. The maximum age a storage box can store data without data loss is 63'115'201'023 seconds. Once this time elapses the storage box is purged as the integrity of the data can no longer be guaranteed. Visitors are informed that this will happen and are asked to retrieve their items before it does.

Maintenance Drones

The room is maintained by numerous synthetic, autonomous drones. These drones can clean up, make basic repairs on the storage boxes and other systems. These drones can float through a network of tunnels with magnetic rails within the room. Through this network they can reach every location within the sphere.

The drones themselves are built and maintained by the cloak room engineering team. For more advanced repairs or tasks a team member can take direct control of the drone and use their sensory output to make the necessary repairs.

Redundant Power Generation

In order to ensure that the cloak room remains powered at all times the energy is source from fifteen completely independed cold fusion reactors. No other system is powered by these reactors. Of the fifteen reactors only a single one is required to maintain the integrity of the stored data. However, a second reactor is required in order to materialize and dematerialize the contents of a storage box. At any given time ten of the reactors are active. Eight of which are used to materialize and dematerialze the contents. One is used to maintain the storage boxes and one is used to perform maintenace tasks on the system.

The other five reactors are in maintenace, repair or testing mode to ensure that they will not fail. The reactors are rotated on a regular basis.

Type

Room, Storage

Dimensions

6 x 6 x 0.5 km

Volume

18 km³

Capacity

4'291 YB

Access

None

Maintained By

Cloak Room Engineering Crew

Adjacent Rooms

Control Room
Entrance Hall

Systems

Shielded Systems
Magnetic Rail Maintenance Tunnel Network
D

Power Generation

17 Cold Fusion Reactors

Parent Location

Entrance Hall

Security Measures

The cloak room systems can only be accessed from the engineering room, which is directly attached to the sphere. Otherwise the system is entirely cut of from outside connections.
The walls of the room are an impenetrable construction which shields the room from any outside intrusions. The room has full EM shielding, teleportation blockers, anti-phasing layers, vibration dampeners and more. Within the sphere there is no air and the temperature is close to zero Kelvin making it very hard to survive within the sphere for organics.
The most regular threat to the data are intradimensional data worms. These synthetic-organic worms feed on data for nurishement. They can cross dimensional barries with the ability to appear anywhere and are attracted by large and dense collections of data. To combat the worms there are a number of honey pot storage boxes around the room. These spheres contain very dense data and store the code for a virus. This virus will kill any data wrom which its from the storage box.