The Towering City

## General Info

### Habitability

Medium (the area of land is difficult to inhabit but the primary city makes it a bit better)

## Geological Info

### Weather

It is raining most of the year with periods of usually a few hours between storms.

### Altitude

753m above sea level.

The Towering City is where most of season one takes place in. Its name comes from the view seen inside and out of the city. The majority of buildings tower into the sky with narrow gaps in between. These gaps between each building are the roads and alleyways between them. Electrical cables travel between the buildings overhead anyone who walks the streets and alleys. The buildings themselves look like walls on either side going up quite far into the sky in most parts of the city. The weather tends to be very cloudy with the sun rarely poking through the clouds, the light still makes it through to the ground but due to the height of the buildings, it is still dark and covered in shadow in the bottom most layers of the city. This leaves most of the lighting to be very yellow and orange due to the neon signs and digital screens in many places all over. The city center is a larger, more open area with natural light actually able to make the area lit up in the day, a stark difference from most of the city. This city center is mostly a market, with some shop buildings scattered around. Most of the market shops look more like stands with most of them being mobile. This is the main place for commerce in the city and is a very popular spot due to its relative beauty compared to the surroundings. The towering buildings don’t reach into this area leaving it much more open than other places. This is also why the sunlight gets through more here.

As you travel outwards towards the edge of the city, the buildings tend to get less towering. On the very edge of what is considered part of the inhabited city most buildings are only one story high. Most being homes or storage areas. Most of the infrastructure of the city rarely makes it out to the edge, leaving the citizens here to struggle much more than inner city citizens. However, as you head inwards to the center of the city we will see a structure in the center that is towering over everything else. It is the center of the city's governing force, the Imperium. They use this structure as a housing facility, prison, barracks, hanger bay, and even control center. The general shape of this building is that the main structure is rounded with the top being flat with several antennas on the top. Above this structure is a larger and more powerful version of the craft that destroyed Mica and Elias’s home. It looms ominously over the central structure, as if always on standby. The Imperium has many patrols all over the city, especially in more populated areas. This is because of the tyrannical rule and grasp that this government has on the people of this world. This city is one of many on this planet, all controlled similarly to this one. What sets this city apart from the others is its geography and weather. The weather consists of frequent rain storms and lightning storms. All the buildings of the city have large and effective lightning rods on their roofs to protect against power outages from lightning strikes. This is not as effective in the outer sections of the city as that same infrastructure is nearly nonexistent. The surrounding geography and inner geography of the city is mostly flat, made up of the concrete that is the roads and alleyways. In many areas the concrete is not well kept, with most roads having cracks and potholes that contain the small plants that grow inside the city.

It is hard for life in general, not just for the people but also for animals and plants. Most if any vegetation is going to be small shrubs at best and dying blades of grass at worst. These plants are not abundant because of all the concrete. They can only grow in the cracks and crevices. Animals are rarely seen outside of the city. Most, if any animals seen inside the city will be small scavengers that dig through garbage and root around in abandoned areas. Most people don’t try to have plants or keep pets as making ends meet in such a place is difficult. The military/ police presence all over the city does not help as it is very easy to get in trouble due to the strict laws and corrupt individuals in power. The central control building in the center of the city has many patrolling aircraft around it and it sends more of those craft out into the city to patrol as well. Crime is high in the towering city as people try to make ends meet. but, people do also tend to be arrested for things that wouldn’t be considered a crime under other governments. Things such as speaking out against the government or the sale of items and materials that are banned by the Imperium that are not inherently harmful or bad. The government of the towering city is a branch of the larger world government. This government tries very hard to stop uprisings and any organized protest or group. Because of this, the government barely supports its citizens with the infrastructure they own. This causes many streets to be flooded or overflowing with trash due to the lack of people working to actually take away the trash and put it in landfills in the outskirts of the city. Even with this, there are so many people and so much trash that the landfills still have been mostly filled. Overall these conditions have caused many areas of the city’s lower levels to be unhealthy and unsafe to be in.