The Loom Quarter
The Loom Quarter is Numen Axiom's Hive-arcology district -- four and a half million residents, the largest concentration of licensed cognition work in the Core.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | neo-hive |
| Anchor System | numen-axiom |
| Controlling Faction | Numen |
| Fold Bleed | low |
| Population | 4400000 |
| Role | satellite |
| Zone | Core |
Notes
Dangers: Black-clinic tuning: unlicensed minds bootstrapped on captured cognition, sold cheap to Rim captains who cannot afford the lease., Kadiss noise: with so many cognition vendors in one district, the local grid returns ghost signatures -- sometimes the ghosts answer back.
Hooks: A unlicensed cognition lab in the Loom is selling 'memory jazz' -- snippets of retired minds, repackaged -- and the League Council wants it shut down quietly before the buyers realise what they bought., A Loom worker is found dead at her tuning bench; her Kadiss unit logs show she was speaking to someone with no Kadiss signature for the three hours before she stopped., A buyer's representative insists on attending a Numen live-tuning session; the mind being tuned keeps addressing the visitor, not the buyer, by name.
Lore: The Loom Quarter is Numen Axiom's hive-arcology district -- four and a half million residents, the largest concentration of licensed cognition work in the Core. The Quarter is where the Spindle's output is tuned before lease: ship minds, station minds, house minds, the occasional industrial-control mind sold to a Helios foundry or a Drift freighter. The work is precise, legal, and well-paid -- and it sits next door to the largest black-clinic market in the Core. A Kadiss silence window is a legal civic feature; stack enough silence windows on top of each other and you get the Quiet Yards, where Numen's oversight thins out and the unlicensed tuning houses start to look respectable from across the street. The Quarter is also where Numen's most awkward customers surface: a Family representative who wants a mind tuned to remember too much, a Legion officer who wants one tuned to forget too much, a Drift captain who just wants a mind that will not rat her out to Kadiss. The Quarter's reputation is a polite, technical respectability with a visible seam. The seam is where the adventures live.
Notable: Spindle Row: the street of licensed tuning houses, each one branded for a different Family client., The Quiet Yards: a half-abandoned block where Kadiss silence windows overlap and the only people present are those who want to not be., Numen's own repair hall, open to the public; the queue is two days long and the staff will not make eye contact.