Tiodruich
The world spans twenty-nine kilometres across a solid rock volume with no surface. Gravity pulls hardest near the lowest tunnels where heavy industry sits.
A circular aperture opens on the eastern face of the highest drifting peak. The rim measures fifteen metres wide to let a cargo ship pass through.
- Gate Sector
- 6Dimensional Station
- Time Flow
- 30 days here for one day at Nexus
The Gate
"There is no violence in the Dimensional Station. Violent offenders will be removed."
from Customs Manual for Vertical Ports, by Shetsoten, a gate official who scans arrivals
A drone stands inside the mouth to scan for weapons before any greeting begins. A line about trade follows, different every time.
- Tolls
- Access costs ten credits per person and a thousand credits for every hull entering the gate.
Places
"Salt pans are guarded by law in Dusha where industry works."
from The Humming Account Book, by Baren, a mine foreman who records shifts in Dusha
Dusha serves as the lowest tunnel hub where heavy industry works and salt pans are guarded by law. Gayo stands on a vertical cliff in the middle zone where people shape echoes inside hollows to carry orders.
- Rocho
- Rocho sits near the floating markets at the top where strangers drift through cracks without asking permission.
Danger
"Water sources turn poisonous without warning so every town has a taster and people drink only from sealed cisterns."
from Song of the Thin Seam, by Yaziba, a poet who watches cracks near Rocho
The world builds sound into stone so that walls hum when touched. Trade routes curve upward to reach ports that sit near the fabric's thin edge.
- Cracks
- A stranger drifts through a crack in the fabric without asking permission near Rocho.
Peoples
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01Gema
Broad shoulders and short limbs adapted for tunnel work -
02Chaban
Lean frames and long limbs built for climbing vertical cliffs -
03Nikurin
Compact builds and thick hides suited for heavy industry zones