After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World

The entrance to the government complex, as mentioned, would be abutting the massive rotunda at the end of the Southwest Avenue extension.

It would be covered by a Level 3 Wall, possibly with sentries. It was customizable so Althea changed it in a way that it didn’t look so massive and imposing, and they also added a lot of crawling vines to soften the look.

They also made sure that there was a nice easement between the walls and the buildings, allowing for a lot of trees (some of which were colorful), so that the enormous complex (and the relatively tall group of buildings) wouldn’t appearance too massive and intimidating. Rather, it would visually fit well with the rest of the town.

Overall, the frontage of the lot would only take a portion of the rotunda, so more properties could abut it. The lots around the rotunda were prime real estate, after all, so it shouldn’t be entirely occupied by a single complex. They just adjusted and increased its depth to create a large, comfortable, complex with a lot of open spaces.

There would be a few connecting roads that radiated to and from the rotunda, as well, one of which was the Administrative Road, because most of the government buildings faced this area.

The entrance would also be set along this Administration Road, giving ample space and drop-off areas so it wouldn’t interfere with what would be a very high-traffic road.

The Rotunda was designed to have a continuous run of traffic, and the pedestrians would be taking an underground pathwalk, which also had its own little park (with skylight) as well as some small commercial establishments.

At a distance from the buildings (about a hundred meters away), there would be an internal road that originated from the rotunda, traversing all the buildings, and connecting to the side road.

No broat cars would be allowed here, only bikes at most, if not on foot. There were also large parking spaces for bikes.

However, the internal road was still wide enough so that if people started to have privately-owned cars, they could adjust it accordingly. There were even large tracks of parks and open spaces within the complex’s fences for ambiance, but some areas were convertible to bigger parking lots in the future.

Some commercial areas would also be built for the employees, as well as the visitors of that area. Like how it was in Terran though, the store types would be pre-approved, so there weren’t unnecessary or duplicate-use establishments inside.

They would probably also be concessionaires rather than normal renters.

This meant that whoever rented the commercial stores would also be employees. This was a benefit to them as well as a convenience move. They’d know who they would be dealing with, and it would be easier to control what was being sold.

It would even have a small clinic. The estimated population in the complex alone was large. Combining the overall officers, staff, and guests, it would be in the thousands. Some basic facilities were necessary.

The complex would be designed to be self-sustaining in a way. After all, it would be a very dense working center, and there’d be a lot of people there during work hours. It was also a waste of lunch break to have to leave the large complex just to get a few snacks or get a breather.

Across the future government complex—placed at the opposite side of the rotunda—would be where they’d place the Guilds.

Although the designs were in the schematic and planning phase, they had to allocate a large empty lot for them.

It would take a while to even finalize the design, let alone actually build it, though.

This was because Guilds were a completely new thing, and the architects had no reference at all on what should be in their floor plans, the space requirements, the dimensions, and so on.

The process of building, maintaining, and running a guild was still up for study. It was something Lady Althea herself pushed for though, so everyone knew it’d come to fruition in some shape or form.

Some people might underestimate the work that had to be done by architects, and it was in cases like these—the creation of entirely new building types—that their expertise would shine best.

There was much more to buildings than just smacking rooms together and making them pretty. They had to make the rooms and spaces usable and functional, and they worked well together with the other rooms.

They had to determine what kind of rooms would be placed, how big a room needed to be, what dimensions it would take, what kind of conditions it should have, what rooms should be next to it, and so on.

To design a building with no prior historical records, they had to start from scratch. They had to study what a guild would essentially be, what kind of people would be there, what they’d be doing there, the tasks they had to finish, what their habits would be, and so on.

Not to mention, the concept of a ’profession guild’ itself was an entirely new thing, even to the locals, so even the standards and its future scope of work were still a work-in-progress.

Many Alterrans were familiar with the term ’guild’, though the definition could really vary, and the new Xenoan version would certainly have many nuances.

Many of the older generation would probably think of it as the guild, as mentioned in history books, as an official association of people practicing the same craft or trade.

For the younger ones, their understanding of the term ’guild’ would likely be how it was used in popular culture or even in their games.

In their case, it was more like an organization or faction with a specific role in that fantasy society. For example, like the adventurer’s guilds that give out missions in games. To others, it could be a player-created group that functioned as a team or clan in the game world.

For Alterra’s purpose, it was naturally the first one, but there were many key differences. For that, one had to understand what the medieval guilds existed for and what they did, how long they lasted, and how they became obsolete in the first place.