Auuuuuugh, see. Just looking around my house and trying to figure our which district manufactures what drives me bonkers. PLASTICS WHERE?!?
I like the idea of a lot of it happening in 8 since you mention it because otherwise why a whole district for just textiles? And it'd make sense for 6 to do a lot of heavy industry, since similar skillsets and requirements. So, things like working with other metals, general casting (so pipes and stuff, steel I-beams, etc). Consumer electronics I'd guess 3, maybe the lightbulbs and such too?
Yes, these divisions make sense to me. I think the best we can do is assign based on where the raw materials are and the similarity of the skill sets required to do the manufacturing.
I vaguely postulate that the current makeup of places like Detroit--large Arabic-speaking and black populations--tends to continue, hence the Arabic-derived names for Rokia and her family and some other 6s. (randomly, social climbers like Rokia's aunt Magda find those names "quaint" and "provincial" and so their kid is named Jack. Which secretly to uncle Salif and Rokia's grandma is short for Diakaridia, don't ask me why I know this I just do)
This makes a lot of sense to me? Also, I would think that the more urban districts have more variety in their gene pools because they started from more diversity (so it might be easier to have the seam/merchant divide without having to replicate that kind of divide in 3/6/8)?
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Date: 2015-02-26 01:50 pm (UTC)Auuuuuugh, see. Just looking around my house and trying to figure our which district manufactures what drives me bonkers. PLASTICS WHERE?!?
I like the idea of a lot of it happening in 8 since you mention it because otherwise why a whole district for just textiles? And it'd make sense for 6 to do a lot of heavy industry, since similar skillsets and requirements. So, things like working with other metals, general casting (so pipes and stuff, steel I-beams, etc). Consumer electronics I'd guess 3, maybe the lightbulbs and such too?
Yes, these divisions make sense to me. I think the best we can do is assign based on where the raw materials are and the similarity of the skill sets required to do the manufacturing.
I vaguely postulate that the current makeup of places like Detroit--large Arabic-speaking and black populations--tends to continue, hence the Arabic-derived names for Rokia and her family and some other 6s. (randomly, social climbers like Rokia's aunt Magda find those names "quaint" and "provincial" and so their kid is named Jack. Which secretly to uncle Salif and Rokia's grandma is short for Diakaridia, don't ask me why I know this I just do)
This makes a lot of sense to me? Also, I would think that the more urban districts have more variety in their gene pools because they started from more diversity (so it might be easier to have the seam/merchant divide without having to replicate that kind of divide in 3/6/8)?