The Shape of the City
Six Territories, fifteen hundred miles of coast, one city. Here's the ground you'll be working.
Two hundred million people live in NYTE City, stacked along fifteen hundred miles of coastline, and nearly all of them get up in the morning and go to work. That is the first thing worth understanding about the city: it functions.
Naming the city
Territory → Zone → District → Neighborhood
The old states still exist as Sectors, mostly legal fictions now, mostly ignored. The divisions that matter are smaller. The same spot might be the Metro Core Zone, the Manhattan District, or the neighborhood of Harlem, depending on how close in you're standing.
The six Territories
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North Quarter
Covers Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut
The thinnest the megacity gets: dense forest, industrial corridors that never filled in, and rough country where the surveillance grid runs out. The North Quarter rewards independence and punishes visibility, which is exactly why certain people, and certain corporations, prefer it.
Zones: Northern Pines · Iron Mountains · Riverlands · Connecticut Sector
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Central City
Covers New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Eastern Pennsylvania
The hub everything else orbits: the financial core, the media capital, and the most watched ground in the megalopolis. Every çredit, every TAG ping, every handshake is logged somewhere, because information is what Central City exports.
Zones: Metro Core · Capital Region · New Bostonia · Techtopia
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Daedalus Belt
Covers New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Eastern Virginia, the Philadelphia corridor
Military bases, freight lines, pharmaceutical research and a shoreline losing ground to the sea. The defense industry here didn't lobby the government; it replaced it, and the difference between a base and a corporate campus is mostly architectural.
Zones: Liberty Yards · Gateway · Neo Jersey · Garden State · Delmarva · Arcadia Bay · Tidewater
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Welterworth Commons
Covers Washington DC, Virginia, North Carolina
What's left of the federal government, the South's money, a research corridor the whole seaboard depends on, and the farms that feed it, all within a day's drive. Power takes more forms here than anywhere else. Washington DC still exists. It just doesn't run much anymore.
Zones: Capital Heights · Old Dominion · Blue Ridge Corridor · Research Triangle · Piedmont · Queen City
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Greenwall
Covers South Carolina
Named for a forest that's mostly gone. A coast that sells its history to tourists, an interior built on extraction, and a western edge where the Appalachians press in: old, disturbed, and not particularly interested in negotiating.
Zones: Lowcountry · Sandhills · The Upstate · Blue Ridge Refuge
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Southside Consortium
Covers Georgia, Alabama, Florida
A territory that sells an idea of itself. Resorts, parks, casinos and ports, a second economy under every one of them, and a peninsula that gets shorter every decade. The Consortium never treated the water as a reason to stop. It just prices it in.
Zones: Rocket City · Atlantix · Bonaventure · Gulf Coast · Southport · Wonderland · Space Coast · Suncoast City · Magic City
The city stopped needing walls the day it learned to watch.
Beyond NYTE City
NYTE City is not the country, only the loudest part of it.
Cascadia · Golden Gate · Southland · Maricopa · Neon Oasis · Concordia · Deep Water · Crescent City · Twin Cities · Portage · Motor City