Infrastructure domains¶

Each domain represents a combination of physical assets, digital systems, outsourced services, and human processes.

Energy supply¶

Includes:

• Power generation (including the experimental “Geomantic Resonator” in the University)

• Substations and switching nodes

• Distribution networks (both above and below ground)

• Smart meters and household connections

Building types: power_source (generating stations, one per district; the cascade root for all energy-dependent failures)

Energy underpins almost every other domain.

Water and sanitation¶

Includes:

• Water treatment (the famous Ankh-Morpork Water Company)

• Pumping stations

• Distribution networks

• Wastewater handling and processing

Building types: water_source (communal pumps and pumping stations: critical for low-wealth districts; failure here cascades to brewery, healthcare, and fire service)

Public tolerance for water disruption is extremely low.

Communications¶

Includes:

• Semaphore relays and clacks towers

• The new “Talking Drums” mobile network

• Emergency communications

• Coordination systems used by public services

Building types: clacks_tower (relay nodes, the backbone); communications_office (Grand Trunk Company, Talking Drums HQ, coordinate the network); media (Ankh-Morpork Times shapes narrative and acts as a detection mechanism); hackerspace (Scarlet Semaphore does informal resilience and vulnerability research)

Loss of communication amplifies every other incident.

Transport and movement¶

Includes:

• Bridges (including the unreliable Brass Bridge)

• Traffic control (watchmen on point duty, experimental automated gates)

• Public transport coordination (horse-drawn omnibuses, canal barges)

• Logistics routes to the docks and the Sto Plains

Building types: transport (bridges and major chokepoints: structural degradation hides; closure is immediate and isolating)

Transport failures have visible, immediate impact on daily life and business.

Public services¶

Includes:

• Lady Sybil Free Hospital and other care facilities

• City Watch and emergency services

• Fire posts and emergency pump stations

• Municipal administration (the Patrician’s Palace)

• Enforcement and safety services (the Guilds, the Watch)

Building types: healthcare (hospitals: catastrophic sensitivity; failure is instantaneous trust collapse); security (Watch posts and Dept. of Silent Stability: very high sensitivity; absence enables cascading criminal interference); fire_service (fire posts: invisible failure until a fire; without them, workshop fires become district fires)

Failures here are politically sensitive and hard to recover from reputationally.

Commercial and industrial sites¶

Includes:

• Food production and storage (the slaughterhouse district, the cheese caves)

• Markets and retail (the Shambles, the Saturday Market)

• Brewing and distribution

• Finance and payments (the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork, the Guild of Merchants)

• Workshops and small manufacturers

• IT and data contractors

Building types: food_supply (markets and warehouses: just-in-time; shortages visible fast); brewery (single point of failure for the city’s beer supply; cultural and social cascade); workshop (artisan production: individually minor, collectively the industrial backbone; industrial fire risk); tech_business (Golem Trust, Purple Lantern: invisible until compromised; vendor monoculture risk)

Disruption here translates quickly into economic and political pressure.

Residential areas¶

Includes:

• Homes and tenements

• Apartment buildings (especially in the more respectable parts of the city)

• Small businesses operating out of dwellings

• Local utility connections

Building types: slum_dwelling (Shades, Cockbill Street: extreme sensitivity; no margin for error); middle_class_housing (Isle of Gods, Small Gods residences: high sensitivity; vocal and politically connected); civic_amenity (museums, theatres: low crisis priority but high cultural significance)

Residential impact is where abstract failures become personal.