https://theocoulson.com/elyrion-annals/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=High_Steelforge 2026-08-25T00:55:39Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.40.1 https://theocoulson.com/elyrion-annals/index.php?title=High_Steelforge&diff=552&oldid=prev 2026-01-08T16:16:08Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:16, 8 January 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l38">Line 38:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 38:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The city&#039;s large-scale structures are all radially symmetric around the Spire. Power generating stations, major water purifiers, and other such utilities are regularly positioned, as are the larger pipes and cables which convey water, air, and electricity around the planet. However, this symmetry is not enforced and the level of non-major streets and buildings, so it is still all too easy to become lost, especially in the lower levels of the city where the sky is not visible.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The city&#039;s large-scale structures are all radially symmetric around the Spire. Power generating stations, major water purifiers, and other such utilities are regularly positioned, as are the larger pipes and cables which convey water, air, and electricity around the planet. However, this symmetry is not enforced and the level of non-major streets and buildings, so it is still all too easy to become lost, especially in the lower levels of the city where the sky is not visible.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Main article: [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Public </del>Transport of High Steelforge]]''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''Main article: [[Transport <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Infrastructure </ins>of High Steelforge]]''</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The economic lifeblood of the city is its maglev rail system and the Spire to which they lead. Passenger service is famous for operating to the second. The fastest passenger services operate at just over 1 kilometer per second, making extensive planetary journeys relatively fast. Though these services could in theory be beat by sub-orbital flight, supersonic travel through the atmosphere is tightly regulated to limit the impact of sonic booms. Local air taxis and other airborne vehicles are common, but heavy lift vehicles and long-range passenger transports are vanishingly rare, the former used only to move the bulkiest and most unwieldy of payloads, and the latter only serving the very rich and well-connected who can afford streamlined low-boom air and space craft. The standard gauge of rail is 2m, with railcars wider than 5m and taller than 10m prohibited due to the limitations of the tunnels through which the lines run for practically their entire extent. Cargo services are far less regimented than passenger, with the schedules for high-speed and regional freight being dynamically set by complex algorithms run by the rail control authority.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The economic lifeblood of the city is its maglev rail system and the Spire to which they lead. Passenger service is famous for operating to the second. The fastest passenger services operate at just over 1 kilometer per second, making extensive planetary journeys relatively fast. Though these services could in theory be beat by sub-orbital flight, supersonic travel through the atmosphere is tightly regulated to limit the impact of sonic booms. Local air taxis and other airborne vehicles are common, but heavy lift vehicles and long-range passenger transports are vanishingly rare, the former used only to move the bulkiest and most unwieldy of payloads, and the latter only serving the very rich and well-connected who can afford streamlined low-boom air and space craft. The standard gauge of rail is 2m, with railcars wider than 5m and taller than 10m prohibited due to the limitations of the tunnels through which the lines run for practically their entire extent. Cargo services are far less regimented than passenger, with the schedules for high-speed and regional freight being dynamically set by complex algorithms run by the rail control authority.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:14, 8 January 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l38">Line 38:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 38:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The city&#039;s large-scale structures are all radially symmetric around the Spire. Power generating stations, major water purifiers, and other such utilities are regularly positioned, as are the larger pipes and cables which convey water, air, and electricity around the planet. However, this symmetry is not enforced and the level of non-major streets and buildings, so it is still all too easy to become lost, especially in the lower levels of the city where the sky is not visible.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The city&#039;s large-scale structures are all radially symmetric around the Spire. Power generating stations, major water purifiers, and other such utilities are regularly positioned, as are the larger pipes and cables which convey water, air, and electricity around the planet. However, this symmetry is not enforced and the level of non-major streets and buildings, so it is still all too easy to become lost, especially in the lower levels of the city where the sky is not visible.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The economic lifeblood of the city is its maglev rail system and the Spire to which they lead. Passenger service is famous for operating to the second<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, with trains arriving at Radia stations every two hours</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Passenger </del>services operate at just over 1 kilometer per second, making extensive planetary journeys relatively fast. Though these services could in theory be beat by sub-orbital flight, supersonic travel through the atmosphere is tightly regulated to limit the impact of sonic booms. Local air taxis and other airborne vehicles are common, but heavy lift vehicles and long-range passenger transports are vanishingly rare, the former used only to move the bulkiest and most unwieldy of payloads, and the latter only serving the very rich and well-connected who can afford streamlined low-boom air and space craft. The standard gauge of rail is 2m, with railcars wider than 5m and taller than 10m prohibited due to the limitations of the tunnels through which the lines run for practically their entire extent. Cargo services are far less regimented than passenger, with the schedules for high-speed and regional freight being dynamically set by complex algorithms run by the rail control authority.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Main article: [[Public Transport of High Steelforge]]''</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The economic lifeblood of the city is its maglev rail system and the Spire to which they lead. Passenger service is famous for operating to the second. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The fastest passenger </ins>services operate at just over 1 kilometer per second, making extensive planetary journeys relatively fast. Though these services could in theory be beat by sub-orbital flight, supersonic travel through the atmosphere is tightly regulated to limit the impact of sonic booms. Local air taxis and other airborne vehicles are common, but heavy lift vehicles and long-range passenger transports are vanishingly rare, the former used only to move the bulkiest and most unwieldy of payloads, and the latter only serving the very rich and well-connected who can afford streamlined low-boom air and space craft. The standard gauge of rail is 2m, with railcars wider than 5m and taller than 10m prohibited due to the limitations of the tunnels through which the lines run for practically their entire extent. Cargo services are far less regimented than passenger, with the schedules for high-speed and regional freight being dynamically set by complex algorithms run by the rail control authority.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Spire is one of the great engineering marvels of the galaxy. It is a circular tower, 5.7 kilometers in diameter, which extends from the planet&#039;s surface to its moon in geostationary orbit, spanning a length of 20,800 kilometers. It contains 1020 square tunnels of 160 meters to a side through which bundles of up to 400 standard shipping containers are propelled at 416m/s, with average trip times of about 14 hours. On average, 61 billion kilograms pass through the Spire every second. The use of [[Pseudo-Gravity Generator|pseudo-gravity]] allows passenger trains to run at full speed along the exterior of the Spire; this allows journeys between surface and Grayport of just under 7 hours. The view from such trains is extraordinary, although several carriages on each trip keep their windows opaque to avert the nausea that results from the difference between the orientation of the outside and the direction of apparent gravity within the car. The area extending tens of kilometers in every direction from the planetside base of the spire is given over to the freight yards which process the vast throughput. This yard also doubles as the primary operating yard for high-speed passenger services. At the edge of the yard is Grand Central Station, a vast passenger concourse where every planetary Radia service terminates and from which trains continue either around the planet or up the Spire.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Spire is one of the great engineering marvels of the galaxy. It is a circular tower, 5.7 kilometers in diameter, which extends from the planet&#039;s surface to its moon in geostationary orbit, spanning a length of 20,800 kilometers. It contains 1020 square tunnels of 160 meters to a side through which bundles of up to 400 standard shipping containers are propelled at 416m/s, with average trip times of about 14 hours. On average, 61 billion kilograms pass through the Spire every second. The use of [[Pseudo-Gravity Generator|pseudo-gravity]] allows passenger trains to run at full speed along the exterior of the Spire; this allows journeys between surface and Grayport of just under 7 hours. The view from such trains is extraordinary, although several carriages on each trip keep their windows opaque to avert the nausea that results from the difference between the orientation of the outside and the direction of apparent gravity within the car. The area extending tens of kilometers in every direction from the planetside base of the spire is given over to the freight yards which process the vast throughput. This yard also doubles as the primary operating yard for high-speed passenger services. At the edge of the yard is Grand Central Station, a vast passenger concourse where every planetary Radia service terminates and from which trains continue either around the planet or up the Spire.</div></td></tr> </table>

Seeker of Dragons https://theocoulson.com/elyrion-annals/index.php?title=High_Steelforge&diff=482&oldid=prev 2025-10-29T03:55:04Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:55, 28 October 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of the many vast arcologies scattered across colonized space, none approach the all-encompassing scale of High Steelforge, a city which <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">covers </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">full </del>hemisphere <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of its planet </del>in a dense urban construct in many places more than a kilometer deep. It is by far the most populous settlement in Elyrion, and its economic and political influence are felt throughout the Nova Compact and beyond. From space, the planet's populated hemisphere has the appearance of a colossal spiral of glass, steel and concrete. The center of the city is a space elevator, one of the few known to be in existence, connecting the planet to its amenably positioned moon, now known as the Grayport, which was largely hollowed out and converted into a vast spaceport by the [[United Congressional Systems|UCS]] engineers who built the city.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Of the many vast arcologies scattered across colonized space, none approach the all-encompassing scale of High Steelforge, a city which <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has subsumed its planet, covering </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fuil </ins>hemisphere in a dense urban construct <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that is </ins>in many places more than a kilometer deep. It is by far the most populous settlement in Elyrion, and its economic and political influence are felt throughout the Nova Compact and beyond. From space, the planet's populated hemisphere has the appearance of a colossal spiral of glass, steel and concrete. The center of the city is a space elevator, one of the few known to be in existence, connecting the planet to its amenably positioned moon, now known as the Grayport, which was largely hollowed out and converted into a vast spaceport by the [[United Congressional Systems|UCS]] engineers who built the city.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Key Metrics ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Key Metrics ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Seeker of Dragons https://theocoulson.com/elyrion-annals/index.php?title=High_Steelforge&diff=173&oldid=prev 2021-12-30T01:07:41Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:07, 29 December 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l13">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Government and Major Institutions ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Government and Major Institutions ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>High Steelforge is governed by the [[High Steelforge Federal Authority]], a technocratic republic. All government officials, both appointed and elected, must be graduates of the Civics Academy, a selective and prestigious <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">graduate </del>institute offering a five-year course of study. Though frequently derided as undemocratic, the Authority maintains (with some credibility) that this intensive selection process is essential to maintaining a city whose very existence is dependent on the long-term management of complex infrastructure. While highly selective and often inflexible, the Federal Authority has had notable success in maintaining the planet's habitability despite its vast population and industry, as well as maintaining the firm grip of the law on almost all areas and levels of the city.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>High Steelforge is governed by the [[High Steelforge Federal Authority]], a technocratic republic. All government officials, both appointed and elected, must be graduates of the Civics Academy, a selective and prestigious <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">secondary </ins>institute offering a five-year course of study. Though frequently derided as undemocratic, the Authority maintains (with some credibility) that this intensive selection process is essential to maintaining a city whose very existence is dependent on the long-term management of complex infrastructure. While highly selective and often inflexible, the Federal Authority has had notable success in maintaining the planet's habitability despite its vast population and industry, as well as maintaining the firm grip of the law on almost all areas and levels of the city.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Local administration </del>is divided into <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">districts</del>, which <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roughly </del>follow the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">city's </del>radial <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">organization</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Each district maintains </del>local transportation <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">networks, education</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and local </del>wastewater and exhaust-air handling. Each <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">district elects a </del>local <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Federal Council to oversee and manage its affairs, </del>and to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">represent its interests within </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Authority's labyrinthine bureaucracy</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Local </del>councils are <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also maintained </del>by the nine <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wards of each </del>district. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Neighborhoods often maintain citizen’s committees chosen </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their general population but with little official power. These </del>citizen’s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">committees are an important channel by which popular desires are conveyed to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Authority. In addition to districts </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">city proper, permanently inhabited areas </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Grayport </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other major installations throughout the system also have </del>local <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">council representation</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Offworld </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extrasolar colonies governed by </del>the Federal <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Authority typically have far less stringent requirements for participation in </del>government. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Service </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">offworld administrations is a popular path into politics for those without </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">means to attend the Civics Academy or study for the Service Exams</del>, and the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">politics </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these possessions is </del>typically <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">far more dynamic </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lively than those </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Steelforge itself</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Government on High Steelforge </ins>is divided into <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">levels</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from the planetary to the building, each of </ins>which <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is responsible for various functions. The High Steelforge Planetary Administration is responsible for electricity generation and long-range distribution, planetary internet, climate control, the Radia long-range maglev lines, the operation of the Spire, planetwide criminal enforcement, and the various areas of planet-wide regulation. Below the Planetary Administration are the Districts, whose borders </ins>follow the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">city’s </ins>radial <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">layout</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Districts are responsible for </ins>local transportation <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(including rail service and public roads)</ins>, wastewater and exhaust-air handling<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, crime prevention and enforcement programs, and courts and prisons</ins>. Each <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">District is composed of nine wards, whose governments are responsible for the enforcement of building codes, the maintenance of public infrastructure, emergency services dispatching, and </ins>local <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">utilities access (such as power substations </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the connection of buildings </ins>to the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">internet). </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Each level of planetary government is centered on an elected council of civil-service graduates, each of whom is is responsible for an area of government functions</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Below these </ins>councils are <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">agencies and bureaus staffed </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">appointed civil servants and civilians who carry out the day-to-day functionings of government. The number of councilors is dependant on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">level of government. The Planetary Administration Council has </ins>nine <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seats, most </ins>district <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">councils have three, and most ward councils have five</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elections are conducted digitally (either </ins>from citizen’s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">personal devices or at designated polling stations in various government facilities), and occur every seven years on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">during month five </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">standard year (the first day </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this month is recognized as Election Day </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is a </ins>local <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">holiday)</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Large buildings, neighborhoods and other developments such as industrial parks often appoint citizen’s committees of prominent locals who act as liasons between their localities </ins>and the Federal government. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While lacking power in federal affairs, these committees are often very influential </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lives of residents via local ordinances</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are an important conduit through which popular opinion is transmitted to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Authority’s labyrinthine bureaucracy. The local committees </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">residential areas are </ins>typically <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elected by residents, while commercial </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">industrial areas often appoint representatives </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the major business interests and trade groups</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>High Steelforge also plays host to a large number of other important institutions which are highly active in local affairs.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>High Steelforge also plays host to a large number of other important institutions which are highly active in local affairs.</div></td></tr> </table>

Seeker of Dragons https://theocoulson.com/elyrion-annals/index.php?title=High_Steelforge&diff=172&oldid=prev 2021-12-29T17:27:18Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:27, 29 December 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l13">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Government and Major Institutions ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Government and Major Institutions ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>High Steelforge is governed by the [[High Steelforge Federal Authority]], a technocratic republic. All government officials, both appointed and elected, must be graduates of the Civics Academy, a selective and prestigious graduate institute offering a five-year course of study<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, or have passed the Federal Service Examination, a grueling test of one's knowledge of history, public policy, and the details of High Steelforge's government, economy, and infrastructure</del>. Though frequently derided as undemocratic, the Authority maintains (with some credibility) that this intensive selection process is essential to maintaining a city whose very existence is dependent on the long-term management of complex infrastructure. While highly selective and often inflexible, the Federal Authority has had notable success in maintaining the planet's habitability despite its vast population and industry, as well as maintaining the firm grip of the law on almost all areas and levels of the city.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>High Steelforge is governed by the [[High Steelforge Federal Authority]], a technocratic republic. All government officials, both appointed and elected, must be graduates of the Civics Academy, a selective and prestigious graduate institute offering a five-year course of study. Though frequently derided as undemocratic, the Authority maintains (with some credibility) that this intensive selection process is essential to maintaining a city whose very existence is dependent on the long-term management of complex infrastructure. While highly selective and often inflexible, the Federal Authority has had notable success in maintaining the planet's habitability despite its vast population and industry, as well as maintaining the firm grip of the law on almost all areas and levels of the city.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Local administration is divided into districts, which roughly follow the city's radial organization. Each district maintains local transportation networks, education, and local wastewater and exhaust-air handling. Each district elects a local Federal Council to oversee and manage its affairs, and to represent its interests within the Authority's labyrinthine bureaucracy. In addition to districts of the city proper, permanently inhabited areas of the Grayport and other major installations throughout the system also have local council representation. Offworld and extrasolar colonies governed by the Federal Authority typically have far less stringent requirements for participation in government. Service in offworld administrations is a popular path into politics for those without the means to attend the Civics Academy or study for the Service Exams, and the politics of these possessions is typically far more dynamic and lively than those of Steelforge itself.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Local administration is divided into districts, which roughly follow the city's radial organization. Each district maintains local transportation networks, education, and local wastewater and exhaust-air handling. Each district elects a local Federal Council to oversee and manage its affairs, and to represent its interests within the Authority's labyrinthine bureaucracy<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Local councils are also maintained by the nine wards of each district. Neighborhoods often maintain citizen’s committees chosen from their general population but with little official power. These citizen’s committees are an important channel by which popular desires are conveyed to the Authority</ins>. In addition to districts of the city proper, permanently inhabited areas of the Grayport and other major installations throughout the system also have local council representation. Offworld and extrasolar colonies governed by the Federal Authority typically have far less stringent requirements for participation in government. Service in offworld administrations is a popular path into politics for those without the means to attend the Civics Academy or study for the Service Exams, and the politics of these possessions is typically far more dynamic and lively than those of Steelforge itself.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>High Steelforge also plays host to a large number of other important institutions which are highly active in local affairs.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>High Steelforge also plays host to a large number of other important institutions which are highly active in local affairs.</div></td></tr> </table>

Seeker of Dragons https://theocoulson.com/elyrion-annals/index.php?title=High_Steelforge&diff=171&oldid=prev 2021-12-29T17:21:31Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:21, 29 December 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l39">Line 39:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 39:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The small moon of Grayport at which the Spire terminated was largely hollowed out by the ancient engineers who built the urban arcology below. It is currently used as a vast spaceport. Large internal volumes are dedicated to cargo processing; while bulk freighters berth at the moons Lagrange points, the container modules which they load and offload are processed within Grayport, with outbound modules assembled from the bundles sent up from the surface, and inbound ones broken down for shipment to the stores and factories of the city. This processing happens fairly deep within Grayport, with cargo modules launched from the by railguns through tunnels from the processing areas to the surface. Ship construction and maintenance, often significantly eased by the low gravity of the moon, happens near the surface, where the berths and hangars at which smaller vessels such as passenger liners, couriers, and other private ships dock. An area near the outer pole of the moon is reserved for military use by the Federal Authority fleet and the Nova Compact&#039;s Star Fleet. However, little use has been found for large areas of the moon&#039;s internal volume besides the storage of mothballed vessels, which are often either cannibalized for parts or purchased at discount rates by crews eager to get into the business of running an independent ship.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The small moon of Grayport at which the Spire terminated was largely hollowed out by the ancient engineers who built the urban arcology below. It is currently used as a vast spaceport. Large internal volumes are dedicated to cargo processing; while bulk freighters berth at the moons Lagrange points, the container modules which they load and offload are processed within Grayport, with outbound modules assembled from the bundles sent up from the surface, and inbound ones broken down for shipment to the stores and factories of the city. This processing happens fairly deep within Grayport, with cargo modules launched from the by railguns through tunnels from the processing areas to the surface. Ship construction and maintenance, often significantly eased by the low gravity of the moon, happens near the surface, where the berths and hangars at which smaller vessels such as passenger liners, couriers, and other private ships dock. An area near the outer pole of the moon is reserved for military use by the Federal Authority fleet and the Nova Compact&#039;s Star Fleet. However, little use has been found for large areas of the moon&#039;s internal volume besides the storage of mothballed vessels, which are often either cannibalized for parts or purchased at discount rates by crews eager to get into the business of running an independent ship.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Layout and Notable Districts ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">High Steelforge’s districts are based on the regular demarcations of its surface traced out by the Radia maglev lines. The planet is divided into rings of districts which sweep out fifteen degree arcs between the Spire and the edge of the urban hemisphere. There are 6 rings of districts. The inner 3 rings each contain eight districts, while the outer 3 contain 16. These districts are oriented along the cardinal directions (north, northwest, west, southwest, et cetera for the inner disricts, and north, north-northwest, northwest, west-northwest, et cetera for the outer districts). While many districts have names, they are all referred to by a standard designation system. This system lists the radial band in which the district resides and its position in the band, counting clockwise from the northernmost district. For example, the northernmost district on the 1st radial band is referred to as 1st radial 1. The westerly district on radial band 2 is 2nd radial 3. The western district of radial band 4 is 4th radial 5.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Each district is futher subdivided into 9 wards, arranged roughly in a 3x3 grid. They are referred to by counting clockwise from the outer counterclockwise-most ward, with the central ward counted last.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A list of notable wards and districts is as follows:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Omnimie Quarter]] (3rd radial 7)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** The Silent Ward (3rd radial 7 4th ward)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Economy ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Economy ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Seeker of Dragons https://theocoulson.com/elyrion-annals/index.php?title=High_Steelforge&diff=155&oldid=prev 2021-11-28T23:30:01Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:30, 28 November 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l36">Line 36:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 36:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The economic lifeblood of the city is its maglev rail system and the Spire to which they lead. Passenger service is famous for operating to the second, with trains arriving at Radia stations every two hours. Passenger services operate at just over 1 kilometer per second, making extensive planetary journeys relatively fast. Though these services could in theory be beat by sub-orbital flight, supersonic travel through the atmosphere is tightly regulated to limit the impact of sonic booms. Local air taxis and other airborne vehicles are common, but heavy lift vehicles and long-range passenger transports are vanishingly rare, the former used only to move the bulkiest and most unwieldy of payloads, and the latter only serving the very rich and well-connected who can afford streamlined low-boom air and space craft. The standard gauge of rail is 2m, with railcars wider than 5m and taller than 10m prohibited due to the limitations of the tunnels through which the lines run for practically their entire extent. Cargo services are far less regimented than passenger, with the schedules for high-speed and regional freight being dynamically set by complex algorithms run by the rail control authority.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The economic lifeblood of the city is its maglev rail system and the Spire to which they lead. Passenger service is famous for operating to the second, with trains arriving at Radia stations every two hours. Passenger services operate at just over 1 kilometer per second, making extensive planetary journeys relatively fast. Though these services could in theory be beat by sub-orbital flight, supersonic travel through the atmosphere is tightly regulated to limit the impact of sonic booms. Local air taxis and other airborne vehicles are common, but heavy lift vehicles and long-range passenger transports are vanishingly rare, the former used only to move the bulkiest and most unwieldy of payloads, and the latter only serving the very rich and well-connected who can afford streamlined low-boom air and space craft. The standard gauge of rail is 2m, with railcars wider than 5m and taller than 10m prohibited due to the limitations of the tunnels through which the lines run for practically their entire extent. Cargo services are far less regimented than passenger, with the schedules for high-speed and regional freight being dynamically set by complex algorithms run by the rail control authority.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Spire is one of the great engineering marvels of the galaxy. It is a circular tower, 5.7 kilometers in diameter, which extends from the planet's surface to its moon in geostationary orbit, spanning a length of 20,800 kilometers. It contains 1020 square tunnels of 160 meters to a side through which bundles of up to 400 standard shipping containers are propelled at 416m/s, with average trip times of about 14 hours. On average, 61 billion kilograms pass through the Spire every second. The use of [[pseudo-gravity]] allows passenger trains to run at full speed along the exterior of the Spire; this allows journeys between surface and Grayport of just under 7 hours. The view from such trains is extraordinary, although several carriages on each trip keep their windows opaque to avert the nausea that results from the difference between the orientation of the outside and the direction of apparent gravity within the car. The area extending tens of kilometers in every direction from the planetside base of the spire is given over to the freight yards which process the vast throughput. This yard also doubles as the primary operating yard for high-speed passenger services. At the edge of the yard is Grand Central Station, a vast passenger concourse where every planetary Radia service terminates and from which trains continue either around the planet or up the Spire.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Spire is one of the great engineering marvels of the galaxy. It is a circular tower, 5.7 kilometers in diameter, which extends from the planet's surface to its moon in geostationary orbit, spanning a length of 20,800 kilometers. It contains 1020 square tunnels of 160 meters to a side through which bundles of up to 400 standard shipping containers are propelled at 416m/s, with average trip times of about 14 hours. On average, 61 billion kilograms pass through the Spire every second. The use of [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pseudo-Gravity Generator|</ins>pseudo-gravity]] allows passenger trains to run at full speed along the exterior of the Spire; this allows journeys between surface and Grayport of just under 7 hours. The view from such trains is extraordinary, although several carriages on each trip keep their windows opaque to avert the nausea that results from the difference between the orientation of the outside and the direction of apparent gravity within the car. The area extending tens of kilometers in every direction from the planetside base of the spire is given over to the freight yards which process the vast throughput. This yard also doubles as the primary operating yard for high-speed passenger services. At the edge of the yard is Grand Central Station, a vast passenger concourse where every planetary Radia service terminates and from which trains continue either around the planet or up the Spire.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The small moon of Grayport at which the Spire terminated was largely hollowed out by the ancient engineers who built the urban arcology below. It is currently used as a vast spaceport. Large internal volumes are dedicated to cargo processing; while bulk freighters berth at the moons Lagrange points, the container modules which they load and offload are processed within Grayport, with outbound modules assembled from the bundles sent up from the surface, and inbound ones broken down for shipment to the stores and factories of the city. This processing happens fairly deep within Grayport, with cargo modules launched from the by railguns through tunnels from the processing areas to the surface. Ship construction and maintenance, often significantly eased by the low gravity of the moon, happens near the surface, where the berths and hangars at which smaller vessels such as passenger liners, couriers, and other private ships dock. An area near the outer pole of the moon is reserved for military use by the Federal Authority fleet and the Nova Compact&#039;s Star Fleet. However, little use has been found for large areas of the moon&#039;s internal volume besides the storage of mothballed vessels, which are often either cannibalized for parts or purchased at discount rates by crews eager to get into the business of running an independent ship.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The small moon of Grayport at which the Spire terminated was largely hollowed out by the ancient engineers who built the urban arcology below. It is currently used as a vast spaceport. Large internal volumes are dedicated to cargo processing; while bulk freighters berth at the moons Lagrange points, the container modules which they load and offload are processed within Grayport, with outbound modules assembled from the bundles sent up from the surface, and inbound ones broken down for shipment to the stores and factories of the city. This processing happens fairly deep within Grayport, with cargo modules launched from the by railguns through tunnels from the processing areas to the surface. Ship construction and maintenance, often significantly eased by the low gravity of the moon, happens near the surface, where the berths and hangars at which smaller vessels such as passenger liners, couriers, and other private ships dock. An area near the outer pole of the moon is reserved for military use by the Federal Authority fleet and the Nova Compact&#039;s Star Fleet. However, little use has been found for large areas of the moon&#039;s internal volume besides the storage of mothballed vessels, which are often either cannibalized for parts or purchased at discount rates by crews eager to get into the business of running an independent ship.</div></td></tr> </table>

Seeker of Dragons https://theocoulson.com/elyrion-annals/index.php?title=High_Steelforge&diff=150&oldid=prev 2021-11-27T20:23:31Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:23, 27 November 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l29">Line 29:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 29:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The urban structure varies in depth - outlying regions look very much like conventional cities, while near the Spire the urban structure extends several kilometers down, from the highly elevated streets down to the bedrock. Nearly every layer is inhabited; some of the taller skyscrapers boast over five hundred continuous stories between their spires high in the atmosphere and their bases deep beneath the surface. Given the vast network of streets, maintenance corridors, and forgotten tunnels that exist within the layered arcology of High Steelforge, it is impossible for law enforcement to effectively patrol all inhabited areas. The largely ungoverned areas away from main streets and operational facilities is known as the backstreets, and hosts an underworld of criminals, beggars, and social undesirables who eke out a living outside the city&#039;s formal economy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The urban structure varies in depth - outlying regions look very much like conventional cities, while near the Spire the urban structure extends several kilometers down, from the highly elevated streets down to the bedrock. Nearly every layer is inhabited; some of the taller skyscrapers boast over five hundred continuous stories between their spires high in the atmosphere and their bases deep beneath the surface. Given the vast network of streets, maintenance corridors, and forgotten tunnels that exist within the layered arcology of High Steelforge, it is impossible for law enforcement to effectively patrol all inhabited areas. The largely ungoverned areas away from main streets and operational facilities is known as the backstreets, and hosts an underworld of criminals, beggars, and social undesirables who eke out a living outside the city&#039;s formal economy.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In addition to the agricultural hemisphere, much of the food, clean water, and oxygen used by the city is produced by vast algae cultivation lakes below the city's surface.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The city&#039;s large-scale structures are all radially symmetric around the Spire. Power generating stations, major water purifiers, and other such utilities are regularly positioned, as are the larger pipes and cables which convey water, air, and electricity around the planet. However, this symmetry is not enforced and the level of non-major streets and buildings, so it is still all too easy to become lost, especially in the lower levels of the city where the sky is not visible.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The city&#039;s large-scale structures are all radially symmetric around the Spire. Power generating stations, major water purifiers, and other such utilities are regularly positioned, as are the larger pipes and cables which convey water, air, and electricity around the planet. However, this symmetry is not enforced and the level of non-major streets and buildings, so it is still all too easy to become lost, especially in the lower levels of the city where the sky is not visible.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l36">Line 36:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 38:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Spire is one of the great engineering marvels of the galaxy. It is a circular tower, 5.7 kilometers in diameter, which extends from the planet&#039;s surface to its moon in geostationary orbit, spanning a length of 20,800 kilometers. It contains 1020 square tunnels of 160 meters to a side through which bundles of up to 400 standard shipping containers are propelled at 416m/s, with average trip times of about 14 hours. On average, 61 billion kilograms pass through the Spire every second. The use of [[pseudo-gravity]] allows passenger trains to run at full speed along the exterior of the Spire; this allows journeys between surface and Grayport of just under 7 hours. The view from such trains is extraordinary, although several carriages on each trip keep their windows opaque to avert the nausea that results from the difference between the orientation of the outside and the direction of apparent gravity within the car. The area extending tens of kilometers in every direction from the planetside base of the spire is given over to the freight yards which process the vast throughput. This yard also doubles as the primary operating yard for high-speed passenger services. At the edge of the yard is Grand Central Station, a vast passenger concourse where every planetary Radia service terminates and from which trains continue either around the planet or up the Spire.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Spire is one of the great engineering marvels of the galaxy. It is a circular tower, 5.7 kilometers in diameter, which extends from the planet&#039;s surface to its moon in geostationary orbit, spanning a length of 20,800 kilometers. It contains 1020 square tunnels of 160 meters to a side through which bundles of up to 400 standard shipping containers are propelled at 416m/s, with average trip times of about 14 hours. On average, 61 billion kilograms pass through the Spire every second. The use of [[pseudo-gravity]] allows passenger trains to run at full speed along the exterior of the Spire; this allows journeys between surface and Grayport of just under 7 hours. The view from such trains is extraordinary, although several carriages on each trip keep their windows opaque to avert the nausea that results from the difference between the orientation of the outside and the direction of apparent gravity within the car. The area extending tens of kilometers in every direction from the planetside base of the spire is given over to the freight yards which process the vast throughput. This yard also doubles as the primary operating yard for high-speed passenger services. At the edge of the yard is Grand Central Station, a vast passenger concourse where every planetary Radia service terminates and from which trains continue either around the planet or up the Spire.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In addition </del>to the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">agricultural hemisphere</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">much </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">food</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">clean water</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">oxygen used by </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">city </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">produced </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vast algae cultivation lakes below </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">city</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">surface</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The small moon of Grayport at which the Spire terminated was largely hollowed out by the ancient engineers who built the urban arcology below. It is currently used as a vast spaceport. Large internal volumes are dedicated </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cargo processing; while bulk freighters berth at the moons Lagrange points, the container modules which they load and offload are processed within Grayport, with outbound modules assembled from the bundles sent up from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">surface</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and inbound ones broken down for shipment to the stores and factories </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">city. This processing happens fairly deep within Grayport</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with cargo modules launched from the by railguns through tunnels from the processing areas to the surface. Ship construction and maintenance, often significantly eased by the low gravity of the moon, happens near the surface, where the berths and hangars at which smaller vessels such as passenger liners, couriers</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other private ships dock. An area near the outer pole of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">moon </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reserved for military use </ins>by the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Federal Authority fleet and the Nova Compact's Star Fleet. However, little use has been found for large areas of the moon</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">internal volume besides the storage of mothballed vessels, which are often either cannibalized for parts or purchased at discount rates by crews eager to get into the business of running an independent ship</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Economy ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Economy ==</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:57, 27 November 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l26">Line 26:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 26:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Topography and Infrastructure ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Topography and Infrastructure ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The city of High Steelforge proper is built on a vast spiral radiating outwards from the base of the Grayport Spire, the space elevator connecting the world to its hollow moon. Radiating outwards in the eight cardinal directions (north, northwest, west, et cetera) are the Radia lines, maglev rail arteries which ferry passengers and goods to and from the Spire. At fifteen degree increments, a maglev line perpendicular to the Radia spurs intersects them, tracing out a circle centered on the Spire. Thus, the innermost perpendicular line traces out a circle 15 degrees from the Spire, the second at 30, the third at 45, and so on, with the larges circle circumnavigating the planet from pole to pole. Eight additional Radia spurs originate at the 45 degree mark, each new line exactly halfway between two of the lines originating at the center (thus going north-northwest, west-northwest, south-southwest, et cetera). These radiating maglev lines naturally trace out planetary regions, which serve as governing districts. Each district is centered on a Radia <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">station</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The city of High Steelforge proper is built on a vast spiral radiating outwards from the base of the Grayport Spire, the space elevator connecting the world to its hollow moon. Radiating outwards in the eight cardinal directions (north, northwest, west, et cetera) are the Radia lines, maglev rail arteries which ferry passengers and goods to and from the Spire. At fifteen degree increments, a maglev line perpendicular to the Radia spurs intersects them, tracing out a circle centered on the Spire. Thus, the innermost perpendicular line traces out a circle 15 degrees from the Spire, the second at 30, the third at 45, and so on, with the larges circle circumnavigating the planet from pole to pole. Eight additional Radia spurs originate at the 45 degree mark, each new line exactly halfway between two of the lines originating at the center (thus going north-northwest, west-northwest, south-southwest, et cetera). These radiating maglev lines naturally trace out planetary regions, which serve as governing districts. Each district is centered on a Radia <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">line's intersection with a circular line. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The urban structure varies in depth - outlying regions look very much like conventional cities, while near the Spire the urban structure extends several kilometers down, from the highly elevated streets down to the bedrock. Nearly every layer is inhabited; some of the taller skyscrapers boast over five hundred continuous stories between their spires high in the atmosphere and their bases deep beneath the surface. Given the vast network of streets, maintenance corridors, and forgotten tunnels that exist within the layered arcology of High Steelforge, it is impossible for law enforcement to effectively patrol all inhabited areas. The largely ungoverned areas away from main streets and operational facilities is known as the backstreets, and hosts an underworld of criminals, beggars, and social undesirables who eke out a living outside the city's formal economy.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The city's large-scale structures are all radially symmetric around the Spire. Power generating stations, major water purifiers, and other such utilities are regularly positioned, as are the larger pipes and cables which convey water, air, and electricity around the planet. However, this symmetry is not enforced and the level of non-major streets and buildings, so it is still all too easy to become lost, especially in the lower levels of the city where the sky is not visible.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The economic lifeblood of the city is its maglev rail system and the Spire to which they lead. Passenger service is famous for operating to the second, with trains arriving at Radia stations every two hours. Passenger services operate at just over 1 kilometer per second, making extensive planetary journeys relatively fast. Though these services could in theory be beat by sub-orbital flight, supersonic travel through the atmosphere is tightly regulated to limit the impact of sonic booms. Local air taxis and other airborne vehicles are common, but heavy lift vehicles and long-range passenger transports are vanishingly rare, the former used only to move the bulkiest and most unwieldy of payloads, and the latter only serving the very rich and well-connected who can afford streamlined low-boom air and space craft. The standard gauge of rail is 2m, with railcars wider than 5m and taller than 10m prohibited due to the limitations of the tunnels through which the lines run for practically their entire extent. Cargo services are far less regimented than passenger, with the schedules for high-speed and regional freight being dynamically set by complex algorithms run by the rail control authority.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Spire is one of the great engineering marvels of the galaxy. It is a circular tower, 5.7 kilometers in diameter, which extends from the planet's surface to its moon in geostationary orbit, spanning a length of 20,800 kilometers. It contains 1020 square tunnels of 160 meters to a side through which bundles of up to 400 standard shipping containers are propelled at 416m/s, with average trip times of about 14 hours. On average, 61 billion kilograms pass through the Spire every second. The use of [[pseudo-gravity]] allows passenger trains to run at full speed along the exterior of the Spire; this allows journeys between surface and Grayport of just under 7 hours. The view from such trains is extraordinary, although several carriages on each trip keep their windows opaque to avert the nausea that results from the difference between the orientation of the outside and the direction of apparent gravity within the car. The area extending tens of kilometers in every direction from the planetside base of the spire is given over to the freight yards which process the vast throughput. This yard also doubles as the primary operating yard for high-speed passenger services. At the edge of the yard is Grand Central Station, a vast passenger concourse where every planetary Radia service terminates and from which trains continue either around the planet or up the Spire.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In addition to the agricultural hemisphere, much of the food, clean water, and oxygen used by the city is produced by vast algae cultivation lakes below the city's surface</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Economy ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Economy ==</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:04, 26 November 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l26">Line 26:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 26:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Topography and Infrastructure ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Topography and Infrastructure ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The city of High Steelforge proper is built on a vast spiral radiating outwards from the base of the Grayport Spire, the space elevator connecting the world to its hollow moon. Radiating outwards in the eight cardinal directions (north, northwest, west, et cetera) are the Radia lines, maglev rail arteries which ferry passengers and goods to and from the Spire. At fifteen degree increments, a maglev line perpendicular to the Radia spurs intersects them, tracing out a circle centered on the Spire. Thus, the innermost perpendicular line traces out a circle 15 degrees from the Spire, the second at 30, the third at 45, and so on, with the larges circle circumnavigating the planet from pole to pole. Eight additional Radia spurs originate at the 45 degree mark, each new line exactly halfway between two of the lines originating at the center (thus going north-northwest, west-northwest, south-southwest, et cetera). These radiating maglev lines naturally trace out planetary regions, which serve as governing districts. Each district is centered on a Radia station.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Economy ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Economy ==</div></td></tr> </table>

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