The Hall of Edicts
The Hall of Edicts is the Confederation's government district on Trellis Vast: ninety-two million residents, almost all of them clerks, aides, recording-staff, and the families who have lived inside the Hall's perimeter for three generations.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | neo-hive |
| Anchor System | trellis-vast |
| Controlling Faction | Confederation of Worlds |
| Fold Bleed | low |
| Population | 92000000 |
| Role | satellite |
| Zone | Core |
Notes
Dangers: The Quiet Redaction: a long-standing Hall of Edicts habit of quietly rewriting the public record of a vote in the standard week after the vote is held; the redactors are not always Family plants., Kadiss Tier-of-office: clerks in the Hall are issued a transient Kadiss tier that lifts as they enter and falls as they leave; an old clerk can no longer tell which thoughts in the corridor are theirs.
Hooks: A Hall of Edicts committee aide has been quietly shredding the original drafts of a Helix export-ban vote and substituting ones with friendlier language; the party has been hired by a Confederation idealist to find the shredder before the next session., A Legion liaison office in the Hall is running a quiet recruiting drive among the Atrium's lower-tier clerks; the clerks want to know if Anvil includes a doctrine against redaction, and the liaison is not sure how to answer., An Ark-arrival press pool has set up in the Atrium's public gallery and an Ark sleeper's interpreter has begun a slow Day One sermon in the middle of the formal welcome; Argus wants the cut preserved, the Confederation wants it suppressed, and the interpreter wants to finish.
Lore: The Hall of Edicts is the Confederation's government district on Trellis Vast: ninety-two million residents, almost all of them clerks, aides, recording-staff, and the families who have lived inside the Hall's perimeter for three generations. The Hall is where the captured Confederation does its work: drafting resolutions that the Families will rewrite on the way to the floor, voting on bills that the Houses have already settled in private, and signing treaties whose enforcement depends on whichever Legion commander is currently posted to the garrison next door. The Atrium of Signatures is the public chamber, a hundred thousand seats, recorded by Argus, half-empty on a good day. The Petitions Floor is where any connected citizen can lodge a formal petition; the queue is nine weeks long and the rejection rate is forty per cent. The Quiet Steps down to the Cog Arches are the seam: a side staircase where Kadiss coverage thins out and Confederation clerks go to make private calls that are not always on the record. Day One chapels use the steps on rest days.
Notable: The Atrium of Signatures: the Confederation's deliberative chamber, open to the public and recorded in full by Argus; the chamber is a hundred thousand seats and almost always half-empty., The Petitions Floor: a public gallery where any connected citizen can lodge a formal petition; the queue is nine weeks long and the rejection rate is forty per cent., The Quiet Steps: a side staircase down from the Atrium into the Cog Arches where Kadiss coverage thins out and Confederation clerks go to make private calls.