New Cross City

**New Cross City** is the city capital of Custos Isle, and a primary location within the series. Debuting in Chapter 2, the city features many locations commonly used where major events take place. The city is located on the far west of the island, taking up only a small fraction of Custos. Originally in the process of being built by humans before it was allegedly abandoned alongside the rest of the land, the city has now been mostly repaired by it’s new Guardian population. The area it covers is small considering construction was left incomplete when it’s initial builders left, though it sufficiently houses nearly all of the island’s Guardian population.

*All quoted text was obtained from the Stardust Toyhouse.*

## Areas of Interest

### Island Control HQ

"The main hub of management on the island located in central New Cross directly opposite the clinic, it is run by control manager Zidane, sub-managers Ferdinand and Firework, and many other staff. The building overlooks all major transportation on Custos as well as gas, electricity, and water usage and distribution, they work heavily with island import to manage finances and outside negotiations too."

### Custos Laboratories

Custos laboratories is located in north central New Cross, not far from Custos Medical and Island Control HQ. This building is lead by scientist Karma France alongside his team. The labs are small like most buildings of the Custos city, though still supports several different wings of studying including a robotics lab focusing on developing technology to aid guardian life, mainly prosthetics and other medical devices in partnership with the clinic.

### Custos Medical

"Custos Medical is the island clinic located just opposite of Island Control HQ in central New Cross, run by head surgeon Monarch France and his partner head nurse Whitney France. It sports a small 30 patient rooms and 2 operating theatres, as well as several examination rooms and staff offices, and an exercise lounge for physiotherapy. The clinic naturally dominates island import importance, meaning wears for other businesses may be dropped if necessary in order for the crew to obtain required medical equipment and medicine, though with the staff’s admittedly poor unprofessional training, sometimes even this isn’t enough. Only so much can be done for more serious cases, and guardians in dire condition are unlikely to survive if the surgeons are not equipped to deal with their ailments, patients are given the option of being exported into the hands of humans in hopes of better medical care, though given their unpredictability and inexperience of working on guardians, most would quite frankly prefer to die on the island than risk whatever they may suffer across seas."

### Jackard

Jackard is the largest running casino in New Cross, and subsequently all of Custos. The building is run by Jack France and manager Buck France.

### Panicmal

A building of therapy offices not far out the front of Jackard, the practice is run by Carmen France. Though equally as unqualified as any of the other workers of the island, most find her and her peers to be incredibly peaceful and helpful to talk with. In 2021, Damaen began training under her and eventually landed a job alongside them.

### The Cadet Cafe

The most popular cafe in the city, run by Spring France.

### Medallion Station

"Located in northern New Cross, Medallion is the biggest of only 3 completed stations on the island, the two smaller others being located in southern New Cross and the far east of the island. Only 2 small trains were left there in working condition, and both still manage to run throughout the day, the wait time for a carriage at any station is usually only around 20 minutes."

### Royal Avenue

"A popular stretch of land that connects Jackard and Panicmal to central New Cross, named after and containing a memorial statue of Holly’s late son Prince, though the strip has become built up with poorly constructed smaller shops and businesses that rarely receive much funding. One of these residing in a small side street here is ‘The Squeaky Spring’, a love hotel run by Zaxus with a reputation for constantly sustaining damage whether this be from the season 1 lounge fight or the season 2 Umberbug crash. Kinca worked at the SS for several years before eventually quitting in 2020."

### Ancient Ruins

"A small run down temple in the jungle outskirts of New Cross not far from the monorail station, though the architecture has long decayed away over the years, the bust of a guardian can be made out on both the front and interior of the building. It is a common secluded meeting spot used to locate Ecalypse, who finds the area peaceful for reflection to escape the void of the stardust realm."

### Monorail

"There is a monorail station in the east of New Cross with lines leading towards Altrum with several stops along the way, the trams there typically run every 30-50 minutes, and the railway carries passengers over the jungle canopy."

### Road Tram

"Being one of the easiest methods of transport to repair and manage, New Cross runs a plethora of roadway trams across the city, carts only stop at a small number of boarding points, though guardians prefer to jump on and off at convenience as they move due to their slower speed."

### Docks

"A smallish area of the coast line out front of the Cadet Cafe where boats can comfortably dock. Each week, a singular cargo boat left amongst the human’s neglected wears is taken out from the New Cross port by the import team to various meeting points, where guardians preform trading with humans."

### Garage

"The main mechanics shop on the island located just north of central New Cross, the place is run by Fly and assistant Clover, Holly’s first born child, alongside others. The team are in charge of nearly all mechanical repairs on the island, be it transport to office equipment, though as usual none are professionally trained, their experience over the years and access to the internet has got them by enough so far to keep most things running smoothly."

### Si Alzò

Si Alzò is a fancy restaurant that was featured during Chapter 43.