Dark City

## Biology and Population

### Life

Couple million different life forms (Unicellular and Multicellular. Marine, Terrestrial, Ariel, Subglacial)

### Government

The Board

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**Dark City** is an ecumenopolis in the core of the Milky Way that serves as the centre of the intergalactic underworld. Founded by industrialist Archibald Dark, CEO of Dark Industries, Dark City is a former federal colony that is now controlled by networks of criminal groups and independent megacorporations. Its wide streets and dense urban skyscrapers are home to billions of people.

Dark City is considered a thrilling and exciting location to visit, as well as an interesting and vibrant place to live for those of means, and a hellscape to the city's disenfranchised; its famous slogan is "**The City of Tomorrow**", but most of its poorer inhabitants nickname it the "**Metal Tartarus**". The city is famous for its lack of regulation, allowing for many exotic enhancement procedures illegal elsewhere to be carried out on those who can afford it; this has given rise to an obsession with biological and cybernetic enhancement throughout the entire city.

## History

### Founding

Dark City was the brainchild of businessman Archibald Dark, who became dissatisfied with his experiences in managing corporate construction projects. This led him to break off from his employers and form his own company, Dark Industries, that specialized in planetary engineering. Dark Industries was a leading corporation in humanity's efforts to terraform both Venus and Mars in the Sol System by designing and building the Planetary Climate Engineering Vessels, massive terraforming reactors that changed the two planets enough for humans to survive on their surfaces without protective gear.

As humanity began expanding throughout the Milky Way upon joining the Federated Galactic Alliance, Dark Industries' stock skyrocketed thanks to both human and alien contracts to build biodome habitats and cities on colonised planets. However, Dark Industries' expansion efforts eventually became hindered by increasing regulations brought on by humanity's membership of the Alliance.

When Archibald Dark finally died, his will instructed his board of directors and investors to lobby for the construction of an entire planet-spanning city under his company's complete control by purchasing an entire star system from the Alliance. Thanks to some bribes and favours, the Council of the Golden Worlds allowed Dark Industries to purchase a single uninhabited star system within the shared federal territory of Sagittarium for several trillion credits. This system contained only one rocky planet that also possessed an atmosphere, temperature and magnetic field capable of sustaining life without much terraforming. So began the construction of Dark City, the beginning of a planet-spanning mega-metropolis almost entirely free of regulation.

## Geography, Climate, and Environment

### Location

Dark City consists of around 50 provinces, or "ringed cities", that cover the entire planet and are connected via air, surface and subterranean tunnels. Each of these provinces is divided into districts and then into neighbourhoods.

#### Heart Province

The first and largest of Dark City's province's, Heart Province, also known as the "Great Ringed City", stradles the planet's equator, with two-thirds of the province located in the tropics of the southern hemisphere. The province is divided into six districts.

#### Archibald Province

Named after the CEO of Dark Industries, Archibald Dark, Archibald Province is located in the lower northern hemisphere of the planet. A large proportion of the population - around 15% - lives in the four districts of Archibald Province.

### Climate

When one visits Dark City, they should wear light to medium weight clothing, with a light armor jacket or ballistic-cloth overcoat which is optional. A filter mask and supplemental oxygen are highly recommended as well, this is a hedge against inversion smog and acid rain fog. That being said, acid-proof slickers, umbrellas, and air masks are readily available from the sidewalk vendors or smaller street stores during smog warning periods.

## Economy

### Businesses

The business sectors of Dark City include manufacturing industries, international trade and commerce, information services, electronic technologies, security services, and so on. Dark City is the only city in the galaxy that was built by corporations. Some of the biggest megacorporations in the galaxy contributed to the construction of the city as part of a collective known as the Board.

## Government and Politics

### The Board

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The Board is a cooperative organization consisting of the most powerful coporations of the 23rd Century in the Milky Way galaxy that directly governs the ecumenopolis of Dark City almost entirely outside of the federal authority of the Alliance. The Board shares ownership of Dark City via their various share holdings in Dark Industries, the now-defunct corporation that originally envisioned and began construction of the city.