The Temple and what is beneath it plays a crucial role in this story. But what do we really know about it?
At first I did imagine a lot bigger version of the local church around the corner. But some things did not add up when I thought about it.
There are 300 Vicars who have a lavish apartment in the Temple. With wife, children and a nanny that is living space for 1500 to 2000 people in the temple. Twice as many as live in the Vatican.
Those 300 Vicars have assistants and hold office in the Temple. Office space for 300 VIP’s and their staff, let us guess at 1500 desks, take up a lot of room.
The CoGA is run from the Temple. The departments equivalent to the IRS, FBI/CIA, Education, Health, Defense, etc have also offices in the Temple. That is another few thousand desks.
The barracks of the temple guards are in a later extension to the Temple. As are the Kitchens and some of the dungeons.
Some people here are more knowledgeable than I am in this regard, but my estimate is 5 shifts of 150 guards each. Perhaps double shifts when the Temple is open to the public, which makes it 6 or 7 shifts.
That makes it 3000 people living there plus at least double that amount working there.
I did mention the Vatican as a reference, but that is mostly a lot of separate buildings in a park. The Temple is a single building. I started thinking about this when I visited the complex of the Invalides in Paris. Another example of a building the right size could be the Pentagon in Arlington VA.
In OAR is a description of the Cathedral part of the temple, but no indication how huge the rest of the complex is. If it is as big as I think it is, there is room beneath it for a hidden complex as big as a small town.
Anybody else with any thoughts how to envision this complex?
