Almost have this ‘write something later’ section sorted out. Huzzah! …Of course, I may need to move it up a few chapters. Boo!
The corps figured out early on that fewer people die when buildings in the Tomb Worlds all have the same floor plans and room locations. When you have to run somewhere now, you don’t want to waste time trying to remember where it is, right? So you make all the buildings identical, and people don’t have to worry about where they need to go while they’re fleeing for their lives. At least, that’s the theory. The reality is, individual companies have styles, specific governments and corporations have specialized needs, and there’s new practical experience coming out every year about which layouts are safer than others, and under what conditions.
I say all of this to explain why I led Adam to the sanitation room between the morgue and the animal lab. The newer medical center designs might feature dedicated sanitizers in every room, but One-Eighteen’s facilities were about forty years old. Since the planet didn’t have dangerous xenofauna, bio-mutagenic compounds, parasite technology, or ravening grues, I guess nobody thought that upgrading the site was a priority. That ‘nobody’ includes everybody working on this planet, so I’m in no position to point any fingers.