Trellis Vast
Trellis Vast is the seat of the Confederation of Worlds and the largest single Hive-arcology in the Core: four billion one hundred million people living and dying under the same oxygen recycler.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic | neo-hive |
| Anchor System | trellis-vast |
| Controlling Faction | Confederation of Worlds |
| Fold Bleed | low |
| Habitat | urban, surface |
| Population | 4100000000 |
| Role | anchor |
| Zone | Core |
Notes
Dangers: Hive pressure: Trellis Vast's lower levels are over-oxygenated for productivity and under-ventilated for safety; a long enough shift in the deep arcologies ends in a place no one plans to be., Token authority: the Confederation's writ runs thin when a Family asks it to; the seams where the writ ends are where the parties tend to be standing.
Hooks: A Confederation clerk has been quietly rewriting the agenda for a session that will vote on a Helix gene-line export ban; the clerk is a Day One convert and the rewrite is a slow-motion piece of sabotage the party is hired to confirm before the vote., The Confederation's flagship Legion garrison on Trellis Vast has begun receiving Ark-arrival briefings without ever actually receiving an ark; someone inside the Legion command is running a quiet drill, and the rank-and-file want to know who signed off., A brood of unlicensed synthetics has taken shelter in the lower arcologies and begun negotiating for legal personhood through a Trellis Vast arbitration court; the Confederation is delighted, Asset Realisation is not, and the parties argue in front of a live Argus broadcast.
Lore: Trellis Vast is the seat of the Confederation of Worlds and the largest single hive-arcology in the Core: four billion one hundred million people living and dying under the same oxygen recycler. The Confederation is the verse's UN -- well-meaning, honourable, and hollowed out by the Families that own it; the world reads as that hollow made architectural. The Atrium of Signatures is the public face, a hundred thousand seats, recorded by Argus, half-empty on a good day. The Cog Arches, the original Confederation blocks, are the older face: converted now to indenture hostels, Day One chapels, and a low-grade grey market in tier-boosted Kadiss identities that Asset Realisation pretends not to notice. The Quiet Promenade is the seam between the two: a Kadiss-throttled public park where citizens are technically permitted to record, but where the recording is automatically blurred. Day One uses the park as a kind of neutral ground. The Legion keeps a garrison here as a visible reminder of who actually runs the chamber; the garrison's officers rotate out faster than any other Legion post in the Core, and not one of them has ever said why on the record.
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 Cog Arches: the older arcology blocks where the original Confederation bureaucracy was housed; now mostly converted to indenture hostels and Day One chapels., The Quiet Promenade: a Kadiss-throttled public park where citizens are technically permitted to record, but where the recording is automatically blurred by station law.