mucked: (☂ cages and poles)
Peggy Carter ([personal profile] mucked) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet 2018-05-03 08:32 pm (UTC)

Panopticon.

[ a click of her fingers while she tries the conjure up the best way to explain it. now it's her turn not to judge; not only has peggy been in the fleet long enough to understand how such differences in vocabulary come to pass, she's also more often than not been on the questioning side of this exchange. so many people know things that have yet to be invented in her decade. ]

Pan means all. And opticon has to do with -- being seen. Observation. Shove them together and you get a word describing an infrastructure where all its inhabitants can be watched from most, if not all, angles.

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