The Mirror Quarter
The Mirror Quarter is Argus Eye's broadcast and entertainment district: fourteen million residents, almost all of them on- camera correspondents, producers, actors, or studio crew.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | glitter |
| Anchor System | argus-eye |
| Controlling Faction | Argus |
| Fold Bleed | low |
| Population | 14000000 |
| Role | satellite |
| Zone | Core |
Notes
Dangers: The Quiet Cut: a Mirror Quarter editing technique that drops a recorded statement out of a broadcast without leaving a gap; the technique is legal and the targets do not always know they have been cut, and the cadence of the cut is the cadence of the quiet patch., Tier-of-stage: anyone who performs in the Mirror Quarter at a higher Kadiss tier than their off-stage tier is required to disclose the difference on air; most do not, and most of those who do not are not caught on the first cycle.
Hooks: A Mirror Quarter broadcast team has been quietly staging Ark-arrival 'first contact' pieces for the panopticon, three weeks ahead of any actual ark arrival; Argus would like the practice stopped and the team would like the practice to win them a journalism prize., A Kith actor on a Mirror Quarter set has begun refusing Kadiss-tier boosts that would let her perform under a younger face; the production company has hired the party to negotiate, and the actor would like her refusal broadcast on the next standard cycle., A Day One correspondent has begun broadcasting from a Mirror Quarter studio under a Numen-issued anonymity shell; Argus wants the shell stripped and Numen would prefer Argus not try, and the correspondent would prefer to finish her piece.
Lore: The Mirror Quarter is Argus Eye's broadcast and entertainment district: fourteen million residents, almost all of them on- camera correspondents, producers, actors, or studio crew. The Quarter is where Argus's panopticon gets its face: every Ironball broadcast, every Ark-arrival livestream, every Family statement to the grid. The Mirror Stage is the public complex where any citizen can record 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, which is rarely the same taste twice. The Long Halls are the vetting corridors, where correspondents are tier-adjusted and quietly monitored between takes; the floor plan of the Halls is not on any public record, which is itself the kind of record Argus likes to keep. The Quiet Cafe downstairs is the seam: a Kadiss-silenced coffee house where correspondents from rival Houses meet on the understanding that nothing said there is on the record, and where the cadence of the quiet patch is discussed at a table nobody can record. The Quarter's product is the Core's mood; the mood is what the Nine argue about, and the argument is what Argus sells.
Notable: The Mirror Stage: the Mirror Quarter's public broadcast complex where anyone can record for the panopticon for free; the queue is three days long and the editing is automatic, which is the only place in the Core an unconnected voice can still be heard on the grid., The Long Halls: the studio corridors where on-camera correspondents are vetted, tier-adjusted, and quietly monitored between takes; the Halls' floor plan is not on any public record., The Quiet Cafe: a Kadiss-silenced coffee house in the Quarter's basement where correspondents from rival Houses meet on the understanding that nothing said there is on the record.