San Francisco

### Nicknames

Baghdad by the Bay, City of Fog, Frisco, Gay Mecca, Golden Gate City, San Fran, Paris of the West

## Structure

### Notable Landmarks

Alcatraz, Chinatown, Candle Point, Hyde Road, Twin Peaks, Transamerican Pyramid, Fishermans Wharf, Waterfront Harbour, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Downtown, San Francisco State University

## Leadership

### Corporations

Winfex, NutriLab, Neotech Energies, Valletta Print Inc, Vivitech, SGC Foods, Winchester Housing

## Landmarks

### Center

The cities center lies in the north-east of the city, being visible from afar through its high and modern buildings and sky-scrapers.

* **Transamerican Pyramid-** The second largest skyscraper has become one of San Franciscos most notable landmarks; for its futurist style and affiliation with american Conjurers. Originally build by the *Transamerican Corporation*, an insurance and investment company, it was sold to the Ward Family when they moved their Headquaters to Baltimore. In modern times the Pyramid is used by Elijah Ward as his residence, headquarters and storage for his countless artifacts and trophies. The Pyramid is also used to house and meet with other Summoners; while the lower levels house offices and servers for the Conjurers countless subsidaries. The access to the "Sorcerers Tower" is highly restricted and puts forward countless magical and technological security measures; making it one of the safest places in the city for the Conjurers allies.
* **Main Station-** San Francisco´s alleged main station was shifted to the south two decades ago where the city comissioned a large and modern station that would connect it with the larger rails in the bay area. It was only recently finished and is connected with the subway, cable car, helipod and Hyperlane system. However due to the highly inefficient and elongated building process the station has countless closed off and abadoned areas and tunnels deep below its main complex; which have sparked countless urban rumors over the last decade.
* **Downtown-** Lying in the shadows of San Franciscos buisness districts and its towering skyscrapers, Downtown is the cities beating heart. While its buildings are several stories higher than the cities average, it is still mostly a residential area with shops and buisnesses in the lowest stories. Downtown is mostly known for its excessive bar and club scene, host more than two thirds of the cities nightlife. Its only downside is the western lenderloin disctrict, only a few blocks away from the party mile; hosting most of the northern cities crime and neglect.
* **Chinatown-** It is one of the largest and oldest chinese communities in the USA, and has become one of San Franciscos most famous landmarks for tourisms. It hosts a very large asian restaurant culture, raging from overly luxorious to simple fastfood; although it is notable for still serving traditional meat where almost half its population lives as traditional Omnivores. On its darker side Chinatown is also a festing pit of crime, smuggeling and the chinese mafia known as Triads.
* **Hyde Street-** It is the longest street of the entire city, ranging from Fishermans Wharf in the north all the way down to Downtown in a strait line. It has three lines of cable cars aswell as large sidewalks and its surrounding houses, although internally modernised, still incorporate/replicate San Franciscos iconic architecture of the 18th century; similar to the painted ladies. It has become a heavily touristic and gentrified area over the last decade.

### Southeast

The Southeast of the cit is a mix of

* **Waterfront-** Waterfront is the largest industrial Harbour in the bay area; allowing large container ships to make port and facilitate trade with asia and the rest of the westcoast. It is one of the worlds first harbours to be fully automated and operate without any human support. While it still has about 80 workers on the area to ensure everything is running smoothly; the majority of people on it are police officers taking care of pest controll aswell as the smuggeling and immigration that the harbour facilitates.
* **Bayview-** This borough, or more precisly its district *Hunters Poin´t* are among the poorest and most rundown parts of San Francisco, often classified as a Ghetto. Since broken windows policing was re-implemented the district has grown impoverished and neglected, overrun with heaps of trash, vermin and the homeless population of the city (which is constantly drafted into it). Nedless to say neither the living conditions nor the safety on the streets are ideal.
* **Candle Point-** Candle point used to be a recreational area until the mid 2020s, in which Neotech Energies bought up the district; building up an industrial area and power plants. As time progressed candle point became the seat of many factories and production chains for larger corporations like NutriLabs or Valetta Print.

### West

* **Marshall´s Beach Park-** Also known as El Presidio, is the largest privatised park in the bay area and surrounds the 101 State Road on its way to the Golden Gate Bridge.
* **Outer Sunset-** Is the largest residential area in the city. It consists of 8 superblocks with wide appartments several stories high, housing almost half of the cities population. It is mainly inhabited by the lower middle class due to its more affordable housing. Its mostly known for its orphanages, schools aswell as the proximity to the western beach.
* **San Francisco** **State University-** Is a Jesuit university in the city. It has two main campi, the moder modern one located in the cities south and the traditional campus lying between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Golden Gate Park. The university hosts a large amount of curriculums and is generally held in high regard, although it is among the most expensive at the entire west coast.
* **M.H. Young Museum-** During the day its regularly guard but during the night all of the staff leaves exept the androids that controll the camera systems. However a strange pale dog is set free within the museum, that has sparked many urban myths.
* **Twin Peaks-** Are two prominent hills which form the cities geographic center and highest point. After the spanish conquistadors drove the Naitive Americans from the hills the named them to "Los Pechos de la Chola" or "Breasts of the Indian Maiden" and used it for ranching; something that would not be changed until it became a lookout and landmark renamed Twin Peak during the 19th century. It was only during the last two decades that the city handed out building licsences to combat the housing crisis. In modern times Twin Peaks has become what Beverly Hills is to L.A., a residential area for wealth citizens. Almost the entire space is covered with wide luxorious villas and mansion, allowing for a unhindered view over the entire city. Only the tops of the peaks have remained open and vacant; allowing for a meeting point and a great outlook for the public; altough much smaller and more crowded than in the early 2000s.

## Population

### Ethnicities

Caucasian (48%), East Asian (25%), Black (8%), Hispanic (7%), Indian (5%), Naitive American (3%), Other (4%)

## Background

### Diet

Plant Based (41%), Synthetic Omnivores (43%), Traditional Omnivores (10%), Other (7%)

### City Animals

Seals, Seagulls, Pigeons, Humming Birds, Kinglets, Steller’s Jay, Giant Silk Spiders, Bed Bugs, Cicadias, Cockroaches, Rats, Mouses, Jerusalem Crickets, California Jellowjackets (wasps)

## Infrastructure

### Mobility

#### Cars

San Francisco houses two Hyperlanes; the *101 State Lane* that runs along the western shore, and the *208 Interstate,* the latter being connected to the main station and splitting around the South East of the City. They are connected to the *Golden Gate Bridge* in the north and the *Bay Bridge* in the East. The Hyperlanes are elevated about an average of 3 meters or 10 feet above street level and consist of 8 to 12 lanes. Cars are parked on lots build atop of housing complexes or in one of the 108 Parking Towers raised around the Hyperlanes; each 9 stories high and capable of containing over a thousand cars. These Hyperlanes are connected to 62 two-lane roads stretching across the entire city; of which 40 are build under ground. Cars are prohibited on any other lane in the city and only provide mobility across defined lines, making them one of the less popular transport options in the city.

#### Cable Cars

The Main transit across the city is public and its infrastructue is build to accomodate cable cars; small electrical trains that recieve their energy dircetly from the tracks. Each of them has a capacity of roughly 60 people and gain speeds of up to 20km/h. While their engines have been modernised their outer hull is very much traditional, resembling a small 19th century-style train wagon. Most streets in San Francisco contain one or two central tracks for cable cars while pedestrians walk on very wide side tracks. These cable cars provide the majority of mobility in the city and transport more than 20 million people per day.

#### Other Public Transit

There exist 15 larger rails across the city, mostly around the center leading down south, allowing larger high-speed trains to move across the city and connect it to the entire bay area. There also exist a subway network connects the cities center to the south-west in an almost straight line, being part of the Muni Metro system that spans from Pittsburg to Millbrae.

Due to the steep streets and the constant shift between high and low elevation San Francisco uses very few bikes, most of them electrical; alongside a few motorcycles. They have implemented a set of Urban Street Pods; automatic vehicles with two seats that drive slow enough to be allowed on pedestrian roads and are paid and controlled with an app.

#### Aerial Transports

In the recent decade San Francisco has also picked up on aerial transports such as gyrocopters and helipods, allowing wealthier civilians to traverse the city much faster and easier. While the city has developed the infrastructure necessairy to sustain and land such machines, building loading and landing stations atop the rooftops of urban blocks and skyscrapers; most people lack the initiative or money to aquire helipods themselves, making San Franciscos skies noticably abscent of larger transports.

However drone delivery exploded in the recent years, having surpassed personal, bike and pot delivery as the number one way of transporting smaller goods in the city. The only delivery drones legal in San Francisco are fairly large, completly inaubdile and hard to modify with camera or weapon systems.