The Forsaken District

An unofficial district in the Wei Sector.
There's one Wei district that doesn't appear in the Sector's official records, and isn't acknowledged by Wei authorities. For all intents and purposes, the Forsaken District is not part of Wei, although it orbits among its gyro-zhans, unnoticed and out of reach.
It has no name or designation, and most Wei residents don't even know it exists. In fact, the locals have all but lost contact with the rest of Tiantang. They call it Forsaken, for they know the Corvosphere has all-but abandoned them.
Forsaken is a ramshackle grey gyro-zhan, thought lost centuries ago when a quantum reactions blew its core reactor into space. Rescue attempts failed, and soon the corps decided that salvaging the whole district was not cost-effective. So they gave up on the blown gyro-zhan and left its people for dead. Decades gave way to centuries, administrations changed, and everyone forgot the District had ever existed. It became Forsaken.
It's still there, however. There were a few survivors, but they were enough to cling to life, they retreated to cargo holds and dark corners, as isolated from each other as they were from the rest of Tiantang, and rebuilt as precarious civilisation that survived on scavenged supplies and basic, stubborn, Corvo ingenuity.
They became wandering scavengers, then scattered hunter-gathered, then small tribes. The devastated gyro-zhan was their whole world. Now and then it happened that one group of survivors found another: sometimes they fought for territory and resources, sometimes they banded together for mutual survival.
Now, nearly 400 years later, the descendants of the first survivors are a space tribe, clinging to the dead husk of the Forsaken gyro-zhan like successful bacteria.
The Great Explosion that destroyed their district has become myth; the Great Space Ring from where their ancestors came from is but a remote heaven they know only from half-forgotten memories. They are space survivalists: a post-apocalyptic society in a zero-G wasteland.
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