Starr Building

Many of the Dozerfleet founder's classes were held in this building. Its first floor hallway near its parking lot has side corridor leading to the theater building. That general area in Starr has been utilized many times in Dozerfleet history. In Ciem, Starr was remade as the "Scarr Building" at Viron University in Viron, Indiana, a Classic Gerosha stand-in for the University of Southern Indiana. The first floor hallway near the theater entrance corridor was where Candi first met Denny Levens, as the hall and corridor were re-created inside The Sims 2. Candi later escapes when she discovers that Dirbine police in the breakroom are in cohorts with the Hebbleskin Gang.

A study room in that main Starr first floor hallway is also where Aaron Stefflin and Monica Shelly are ambushed by Chris Kennal and Kyle Tugrass. However, shortly after they exit and get inside Chris' SUV, they're on a narrow drive across from the library. Angelica did her best to use camera tricks and night lighting to obscure this visual continuity issue. In the novel, Chris is able to drive the speed limit and arrive by a different means to Lot 47 than by mere teleportation, which is what the jump cuts in the miniseries indicate happens for the SUV to get from Starr to the hill slope drive up to Lot 47 so quickly.

Chapter 9 of Ciem also takes place in a third floor classroom here. Candi's sociology class is an almost exact replica of Sociology 121's classroom in the spring of 2007 at Ferris. Real-life classmate Darla was remade as "Dhalia Lorrice" inside The Sims 2. In that class in real life, the Dozerfleet founder got to play with the class a copy of Bertell Ollman's Marxist indoctrination game Class Struggle. He discovered that the game's central premise could be subverted simply by getting certain corporations with common interests to co-hedge assets in order to rescue each other if risks got too high. The teacher shut down the hedging operation, as the game's central premise doesn't allow for altruism.

Further viewing

 * Starr Building on Google Maps