Canyon

Though hundreds of miles shorter than the Grand Canyon, Inisfree’s canyon still has the same dizzying heights.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Dimensions & Layout
  3. Special Features
  4. Location & Layout (Images Begin)
  5. Concepts
  6. 2023 Update:  2022 Scale-model in Minecraft
  7. Highway-bridge to CD3

 

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Introduction:

Canyons are concentrators of wind, water, and other elements; major energy meridians not unlike those of the body.  Sometimes carved over millions of years by the tiniest of streams, they become gorges, crevasses, and ravines.  The ones in Inisfree, however, took only weeks; the power of refined terraforming techniques.

 

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Dimensions & Layout:

Inisfree has two canyons, the 1st and foremost being several hundred feet across and spanning 4 miles, and the 2nd and smaller canyon being about half that width and length. The main canyon is .75 of a mile deep (from cliff-tops to water-surface), though its river is at ground level with the horizon plane of Inisfree (and is ~a few dozen feet deep, at its deepest). This is because it runs along one side of our city’s massive central mountain, cutting a narrow strip out of its slope within a mile of where its base would be if not for the adjacent desert plateaus.  The lesser canyon branches off from this main canyon, and has two sides of vastly different heights; the side touching the taller of our city’s desert plateaus is, like where the main canyon meets the slope of our central mountain, .75 of a mile tall, while the side of our lesser canyon facing the lower desert plateau here is half a mile tall.  The outermost end of this branch canyon reaches a point on the inside face of our city’s Perimeter Wall, while the endpoints of the larger canyon are the Disc Pond and Slant-top Spire.

 

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Special Features:

The Reaper Hike takes the many Inisfreean NWO-military recruits through areas like the clone of Corkscrew Canyon, in which they are forbidden to make contact with any of the sandy, wind-carved walls, lest they wish for swift and brutal punishment.

This terrain feature of Inisfree is home to the towering monolith trilobites; giant statues of these ancient descendants of the Space Whales, each one carved and colored to blend in beautifully with the surrounding canyon landscape.

Like the water table regulators, the specialized silos ‘neath this canyon regulate its sandfalls.

2023 October:  The standard invisible ‘smart’-forcefield Inisfree developed is now installed permanently over both these canyons, ensuring no rounds/shells fired from the NWO MIL TRNG Area accidentally come screeching down into either of these landforms.

2023 November:

  • Silos (water-table regulators in some of our underground near-surface devices/facilities) keep the water surface at the same level year-round in our canyon.
  • Since the water moves at ~4 MPH, from the fork, it takes ~20 minutes to float/raft to the Disc Pond,
    ~20 minutes to float/raft to the wall-end of the Side Canyon, and
    ~45 minutes to float/raft to the base of Slant-top.

 

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Location & Layout:

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Concepts:

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2023 Update:  2022 Scale-model in Minecraft

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Highway-bridge to CD3:

This is just conceptual; the actual GAH bridge is horizontal, not arched, etc..

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