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The Two Streams Facility (a.k.a. Two Streams) was a kindness facility on Apalapucia designed to care for the Apalapucians who had contracted Chen-7, a plague that would ordinarily kill any two-hearted organism that contracted it in a day.
Structure and Functions
The Two Streams Facility was designed for two main goals: quarantine of the infected from the uninfected Apalapucians (to stem the spread of the plague); palliative care for those infected Apalapucians.
Two Streams achieved both of these goals using temporal technology; the infected were sent to live in separate, "compressed" time streams from the main one, all held in place with "Temporal Engines", (hence the name of the facility). The compressed time streams were all collectively known as "Red Waterfall" and the normal one was known as "Green Anchor", with matching emblems for each.
Whilst the separate time streams prevented infected Apalapucians spreading their disease to the rest of the population, they also served another function. Because Red Waterfall time was compressed, Green Anchor time would seem dilated to those in Red Waterfall. In turn, this meant that for any given period of absolute time that passed, Red Waterfall occupants would "experience" it for longer than Green Anchor occupants. Therefore, several seconds in Green Anchor could equate to a whole week from the point of view of the Red Waterfall occupants, and likewise a day in Green Anchor could potentially equate to a whole lifetime. Since Chen-7 kills in a day of absolute time, this curious effect of Red Waterfall's compressed nature hence gave Chen-7 infectees a chance to live their lives before their inevitable death. (DW: The Girl Who Waited)
Whilst patients were physically isolated from the uninfected, further temporal manipulation allowed visitation to occur; an object resembling an oversized magnifying glass (known as a Time Glass) synced up the parallel streams (Red Waterfall and Green Anchor) for visits. Patients were also kept entertained by the creation of entertainment zones throughout the Red Waterfall parts of the facility, accessed through an area known as "The Gate". (DW: The Girl Who Waited)
The Gate consisted of a console which controlled access to Two Streams' various zones such as the Cinema, Aquariam and Garden. Various alien artefacts were also scattered around the facility, possibly for the pleasure of the patients also. (DW: The Girl Who Waited)
Side Effects
Another strange effect of Red Waterfall's compressed time stream was that it eliminated the need for food. It did not, however, effect the progress of senescence (aging). (DW: The Girl Who Waited)