Argus Eye
Argus Eye is the Kadiss-grid's home world: three hundred and eighty million people, almost all of them either broadcast staff, Kadiss-relay technicians, or on-camera correspondents.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | glitter |
| Anchor System | argus-eye |
| Controlling Faction | Argus |
| Fold Bleed | low |
| Habitat | urban, surface |
| Population | 380000000 |
| Role | anchor |
| Zone | Core |
Notes
Dangers: Quiet Patch: Argus Eye's signature move is the quiet Kadiss patch -- a software update that subtly changes what a citizen's grid sees. The patches are legal. The targets are not always warned, and the warning is itself a patch., The Tide: a sustained Argus broadcast cycle that can flip public sentiment in a single hive arcology over a standard week; the Tide is most often deployed during Ark arrivals, and the cadence is on a calendar the public never sees.
Hooks: An Ark-arrival livestream is being broadcast across Argus Eye and the on-camera interpreter has begun translating the Ark sleepers' old-Earth speech into a Day One sermon; Argus wants the stream killed, the Ark's owners want it kept on, and the party has been hired as the on-air delay., An Argus correspondent has begun asking questions about a Family estate that have made the Family uncomfortable; Argus wants her reassigned quietly, the Family wants her reassigned permanently, and the correspondent wants her story run on the next standard cycle., A Kadiss-relay maintenance crew has found a backdoor in an Argus Eye broadcast node that has been quietly mirroring a Hive arcology's local grid for six months; the backdoor is Numen-clean and the party has been hired to find out which Numen team installed it before the next Ark arrives.
Lore: Argus Eye is the Kadiss-grid's home world: three hundred and eighty million people, almost all of them either broadcast staff, Kadiss-relay technicians, or on-camera correspondents. Argus owns the grid, and the world reads as that ownership made civic: the Panopticon Quarter is a hive-arcology block whose every surface is a camera or a relay, and the public benches log who sits on them. The Eye, in orbit, is the station that coordinates the world's high-priority Kadiss relay traffic and synchronises updates with other Core systems; nobody outside Argus has been aboard in living memory, and the station's name is the planet's name for a reason. The Mirror Stage is the public face: an open broadcast complex where anyone can record for the grid for free, which makes it the only place in the Core where an unconnected voice can still be heard -- provided the editing is to Argus's taste. The world is where the panopticon is built, and where it is also quietly patched, and where the cadence of the quiet patches is the cadence of Core politics.
Notable: The Panopticon Quarter: Argus Eye's central hive-arcology block, every surface of which is a camera, a microphone, or a Kadiss relay; even the public benches log who sits on them and for how long., The Eye: an orbital broadcast station that coordinates Argus Eye's high-priority Kadiss relay traffic and synchronises updates with other Core systems; nobody outside Argus has been aboard in living memory., The Mirror Stage: a public studio complex where anyone can record a broadcast for the panopticon; the queue is three days long and the editing is automatic, which makes it the only place in the Core an unconnected voice can still be heard on the grid.