Windswept - the places

[wiseheart]

WINDSWEPT – THE CITIES
(The outline of a possible sci-fi universe)
by Soledad

Note: This is just a first, tentative set of places. The names will likely to be changed, more characters will be added gradually, and so on.


The Hives
The Furies of the southern continent have no cities per se. The independent clans live in a honeycomb of rocky caves in the desert that practically covers the entire land mass. The entirety of the cave-labyrinths is called The Hives. Since the Furies are excellent fliers, the entrances to the caves are situated high in the rock faces where most enemies are unable to reach them.

The Maze
The Maze is the underground dwelling place of the Burrowers. Again, these are an intricate network of deep caves and tunnels; each clan has its own maze.

As’Toroken
Formerly the chief city of the Earth-children, now a field of charred ruins. It was built before the great breakthrough in organic technology, so it could not regenerate on its own after the Conflict. Still, it has adapted to the natural surroundings well enough to shield the lifesigns of the planet-dwellers who hide under the ruins. The original architecture consisted of amorphous, semi-organic buildings and gothic-looking towers that imitated stalactites/stalagmites.

Terminus
Once the chief city and spaceport of the Technocrats, now the place where all involved human(oid) parties “organize” their technology from. The original architecture consisted of pyramidal habitats. It has the biggest planet-dwelling population of all, but it’s also the most dangerous place, due to the still functioning particle transporter station, through which the cyborgs can come down directly from Windswept-the-ship and abduct many of the inhabitants at once to serve as slaves aboard the ship.

Thule
Technocrat city on the planet’s similarly-named, terraformed moon. A closed society, governed by very strict rules. All individual needs are under-ordered to the common welfare. The only people with at least some freedom are the fighter pilots.

Semiramis
The dwelling of the Earth-children aboard the Leviathan. Not any particular place, just Leviathan-as-a-dwelling.