<div align="center">(http://storage.koinup.com/081229x106698/106698-6.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Atrium of Vault 110 is the largest single room in the entire Vault.  Taller than any other, it serves as a central location and branches out to all other locations in the Vault.  The high, vaulted ceiling helps those who suffer occasional bouts of claustrophobia, and allows people to meet and casually talk.  Because of its importance to the vault, the Atrium often has two security officers on patrol at all times, day and night, to deter anyone from causing trouble.  The atrium is also watched over by the Overseer, whose office window looks down into the Atrium from the opposite side of the large banner.<br/><br/>Most of the time, the Atrium is rather empty, allowing people to travel to and from the various areas of the Vault with relative ease.  That is, if they happen to be citizens.  The two levels are open to civilians, but the stairs leading up to the walkways are often guarded to keep the denizens from ever walking above the ground floor.  The citizens rarely have need to come down to the ground level, and so often they can be seen standing over the lower denizens, with mothers warning their children not to let them get too close.  It was just another way that the vault had been made to reinforce the divide between the groups.<br/><br/>Connected to the Atrium on both levels are the store rooms and cafeterias, though both are much different.  The citizens enjoy properly prepared meals from the denizen cooks trusted around sharp objects, and their clothes and other necessities were prepared by denizens again trusted to the task.  They enjoy good, hot and hearty meals, while down in the lower mess, scraps from above and a cold gruel pass as what the denizens are allowed to eat.  They have to make do with what the citizens above throw away, and they have no choice.</span>