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1. #1Humans

   Keys: Humans

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 4 · 100%

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   Humans appear very similar to real-world humans. However, millennia of separation between groups of humans have led to the evolution of highly different "breeds."

   Thousands of years of separation between the Strata have caused each Stratum's human population to develop their own, if not similar, cultures.

2. #2Silicon Life

   Keys: Silicon Creatures, Cyborgs, Silicon Life

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 4 · 100%

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   Silicon Life, also known as Silicon Creatures and Cyborgs, are a race of hostile creatures. Silicon Creatures first arose in The City long ago by a trans-humanist cult seeking to reach the next stage of human evolution. Illegal actions by the cultists, including grotesque experimentation on human subjects, led to the creation of the first Cyborgs. Because such experiments were illegal, the Administration dispatched Safeguards to destroy both the cultists and the cyborgs. While successful in eradicating the cult, the Administration failed to fully eliminate all Silicon Life due to the City's growth interfering with its ability to control the Safeguards. Thus, the Silicon Life have propagated on many Strata of the City and have made it their goal to prevent the Administration from ever regaining control of the City, as it would mean the destruction of their species.

   Silicon Creatures are, as their name implies, organisms whose genomes are built from silicon instead of carbon, making them unique from every organism to have lived on Earth. Silicon Life are "born" completely organic (though this is technically a misnomer, as organic implies the presence of carbon-based molecules).

   At some point after their "birth," All Silicon Life receive heavy cybernetic bodily augmentation, often replacing most of their biological systems with machinery and weapons. This leaves many Silicon Life appearing as little more than humanoid heads attached to robotic bodies. Some, appear to be entirely robotic.

   The degree of modification varies greatly from cyborg to cyborg.

   all Silicon Life share the goal of destroying the Net Terminal Gene and all its carriers. This is because once a human connects to the Netsphere using the Gene, they can order the Administration to stop the City's chaotic expansion. Doing so would subjugate the entirety of the City to the Administration once again, allowing them to regain control of the Safeguards. Since the Silicon Life are still considered "illegal" citizens, they would be immediately hunted and killed to extinction.

   Therefore, the Silicon Life have adopted a warrior culture, wandering in nomadic bands throughout their respective Strata, killing humans whenever possible.

3. #3Net Terminal Genes

   Keys: Net Terminal Gene, Net Terminal Genes

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 3 · 100%

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   The Net Terminal Gene is a long-lost gene in humans that, at one point, allowed them to connect to the Netsphere.

   Hundreds of thousands of years ago, every human in the City carried a Net Terminal Gene. Using the gene, they could access the Netsphere and create anything they imagined from a digital template. It also allowed them to communicate directly with the Administration and the Safeguards. However, at some point, a strange "infection" spread throughout the City, deactivating the Net Terminal Gene and preventing people from being born with it. This left the City without any human capable of issuing commands to the Administration, Builders, or Safeguards. Without anything to give them orders, the Builders began to create chaotic and nonsensical new additions to the City based on their fragmented memory of previous structures. The Safeguard, under standing orders when the infection began to kill any infected and prevent the mutation from spreading, then believed every human was infected, and began to exterminate the entire human populace of the City.

   At some point, the Administration used what limited power they had to create a provisional Safeguard unit tasked with finding a living Net Terminal Gene carrier with the intent of re-subjugating the City to humanity's control.

   The Silicon Life, dependent on the City's innate chaos for their own continued existence, fear the gene's reemergence and actively hunt humans with the intent of destroying every possible carrier.

4. #4Netsphere

   Keys: Netsphere

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 3 · 100%

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   The Netsphere refers to the hyper-evolved version of the Internet. First coming online before the City's construction, untold tens of thousands of years ago, the Netsphere was created by humans to solve all worldly problems. Ancient humans could interact with the Netsphere using a specific gene called the Net Terminal Gene and create anything they imagined in the real world from a digital template. Since the Netsphere essentially granted wishes to those who could access it, Net Terminal Gene carriers were likened to gods over the rest of humanity, who could not access the Netsphere.

   At some point in time, the Net Terminal Gene carriers came to a consensus to use the Netsphere to build a utopian city where they could live and create alone, separated from the rest of humanity. Governed by the Administration and protected by the Safeguard, the Netsphere grew in size and scope until its functionality reached the outer edges of the solar system.

   Over time, the City expanded across the Earth as they created new and bigger things. The Safeguard, protecting the Netsphere from intrusion, presumably destroyed the rest of humanity that did not have the gene to make room for the Carriers. Eventually, the Carriers' city covered the entirety of planet Earth.

   With illness a thing of the past and hunger nonexistent, the Carriers' population increased exponentially. More room was needed in the City. The Carriers created gargantuan robots called Builders that created residential districts and skyscrapers hundreds of miles tall. Sunlight soon failed to reach the ground. The Builders constructed an enormous dome with interior lights to act as the new sun, encasing the entire City and planet inside it; the first Megastructure.

   From there, the City was built upward: a new city built on top of each dome, each bigger and more impressive than the last. The Carriers lived lives of ease and comfort creating whatever they liked, as the Administration oversaw construction of everything, and the Safeguards provided law enforcement. For thousands of years, this continued, and soon, even the Moon and nearby planets were destroyed and used as building material for the City.

   The Netsphere, by this point, had become another reality altogether, where humanity could travel to and back as they wished, creating their own worlds as they saw fit. Trillions upon trillions of humans living as they pleased, without a care in the world.

   At some point, something happened.

   A mutation occurred. Someone, somewhere, on some level of the City, was born without the Net Terminal Gene. Then another. Then another, and another, and another. An infectious mutation, source unknown, was spreading throughout the City at an impossible rate. Carriers were losing the Net Terminal Gene, and people stopped being born with them. Soon, not a single Carrier remained, and humanity was forever cut off from the Netsphere.

   The Administration, unable to receive orders from anyone without a Net Terminal Gene, sat helpless as the Builders kept building new Megastructures, burying whole populations of humans alive under millions of tons of concrete and steel. Soon after, the Administration lost all control; the Builders began to create bizarre, chaotic additions to the City based on their fragmented memory of previous structures. The Safeguards, who protected the City and Netsphere from non-Carriers, began to exterminate the humans of the City, seeing them as illegal citizens.

   This, too, lasted thousands of years.

5. #5The City

   Keys: The City

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 1 · 100%

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   The City is a continuously-growing construct that occupies much of what used to be the Solar System. The weight-supporting scaffold of the City is the Megastructure, which is made out of an extremely durable substance that divides the City into thousands of different, habitable layers. The Megastructure also runs the Netsphere, the virtual reality from which the City's growth can be controlled by those possessing Net Terminal Genes.

   The City is divided into huge layers collectively known as strata.

   In the past the City served as residential space for the native humans, who interacted with the Governing Agency via the Netsphere using their Net Terminal Genes. Humanity controlled the City's growth directly, building new strata according to their needs and desires.

   However, at some point an unknown "infection" swept through the City, and the Net Terminal Gene seemed to vanish entirely. Since humanity could no longer connect to the Netsphere, the Governing Agency was powerless to stop the Builders as they continued to expand the City without rest. Humanity gradually became entombed in their respective strata, abandoned by the Governing Agency.

   As time passed, and with no new instructions, the Builders' construction became erratic and nonsensical. Entire strata composed of nothing but columns, corridors, stairways, masses of pipes, doors to nowhere, broken machinery. Vast gulfs of empty space became so common that very few strata are distinguishable.

6. #6Builders

   Keys: Builders

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 8 · 100%

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   Builders are autonomous machines whose sole function is to build new structures and improve existing ones throughout the City. As such, they are responsible for its constant and chaotic expansion.

   when the Administration first lost control of the Safeguards, they also lost control of the Builders. Without any authority to control them or provide them instructions, the Builders have continued building the City since then, creating newer and bigger structures as time passed. However, over time the Builders' programming has degraded, and most of them build entirely random structures with no intended purpose in mind. This is why the City is filled with bizarre, pointless features, such as staircases that go nowhere or straight hallways barred by a door every foot.

   Most builders are seemingly non-sentient; they are simplistic drones which go about their business of random building, and don't acknowledge or engage other entities unless threatened or significantly interrupted. However, some builders are sentient and in fact intelligent.

   Builders are the most robotic of the many races that dwell in the City. While most humans have some augmentations, and cyborgs are almost entirely robotic, builders are purely mechanical. No two builders are exactly alike; it is likely that they create each other, perhaps from the bodies of other builders.

7. #7Safeguard

   Keys: Safeguard

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 5 · 100%

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   The Safeguard was, at one point, a security program controlled by the Administration tasked with protecting the City and its inhabitants. However, working on outdated protocols, the Safeguard became hostile to many of the City's inhabitants, transforming it into arguably the most dangerous threat to the City and those living within it.

   Before the Administration lost control of the City, the Safeguard was a security operation that maintained order, protecting the City and its human inhabitants from harm. However, once the "infection" began to spread among humans that made it impossible for them to access the Netsphere, the Administration lost control of the City's systems, including the Safeguard. Since the Safeguard were programmed to eliminate "non-citizens," it determined that every human without a Net Terminal Genes was "illegal" and had to be destroyed. In effect, the modus operandi of the Safeguard became the extermination of all humans and Silicon Life within the City.

   The Safeguard exists in nearly every stratum of the City, constantly monitoring for traces of human or cyborg activity. When anything is detected, it takes action by "downloading" a Safeguard unit (also called a Safeguard) to the area, wherein the matter in the area of the downloading is rapidly converted into the necessary materials and parts to make the unit. In this respect, Safeguards can effectively "grow" out of any object large enough to accommodate them.

   Within many strata appear Structure Conversion Towers. These structures act as banks of raw material for Safeguard units to materialize out of, and also act as security beacons; touching one is enough to provoke an immediate response. In many strata, the towers serve as the only way to access the Megastructure to the next stratum, making any attempt to even get near the Megastructure incredibly difficult.

8. #8Administration

   Keys: Governing Agency, the Authority, Governors, Controllers, Administration

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 3 · 100%

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   The Governing Agency (also known as the Authority, Governors, Administration or Controllers) is the faction in charge of protecting the Netsphere. The Safeguards, a program intended to secure and protect the City, was created by the Governing Agency but it has now become outdated and works independently. Although Safeguards are similar to the Administration, they share different and often conflicting goals. They want to stop the chaotic growth of the Megastructure caused by the Builders, and seek a human with Net Terminal Genes. The Governors can only act on the orders given to them by a human with Net Terminal Genes.

9. #9Structure conversion towers

   Keys: Structure conversion towers

   Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 100 · 100%

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   Structure conversion towers, these buildings appear to be autonomous energy reserves and/or producers which are independent of the Megastructure. They're apparently capable of synthesizing any form of matter, mainly Safeguard units.

   All Safeguard can use the Towers to regenerate.

   Authority set to destroy all the Towers as they have outdated protocols that only the Net Terminal Genes could override.

10. #10Exterminators

    Keys: Exterminators

    Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 6 · 100%

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    Exterminators are a subset of Safeguard that often appear as black and white humanoid machines. They use primitive weaponry, often their claws or melee weapons, though stronger versions are capable of energy attacks.

    There are many different versions of Exterminators, the most powerful known unit being the Class One, which is capable of telekinesis, regeneration, and beam attacks.

    They often attack in large numbers, similar to a horde of zombies. But also a handful can pose a serious threat to anyone without the Net Terminal Gene. This is because they possess a strong Exoskeleton which can't be penetrated by normal weapons.

    Most of the time the Exterminators bear the Safeguard symbol on their forehead. In early chapters of the manga, their foreheads are blank (probably because the author hadn't finalized the design yet). When the Silicon Life create Exterminators, the symbol is clear, engraved in the center of their forehead.

11. #11High-Level Exterminator

    Keys: Class One, High-Level Exterminator

    Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 7 · 100%

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    High-Level Exterminator is a powerful variation of the Exterminators. It appears to be larger and taller than normal Exterminators, stands on two legs and has some sort of energy rings floating around its body, along with that is a sphere located in the abdomen. This sphere is glowing and seems to contain energy for destructive attacks.

    This version of Exterminator has abilities that surpass most of the Safeguards. It appears to have the ability to manipulate gravity, as seen by the fact that it walks through the air. In addition, it is also capable of creating matter into any shape it wants.

    Its main damaging attack is a massive beam of energy that comes from the glowing sphere located in its abdomen. This beam of energy has enough power to destroy almost all of someone's Safeguard body mass.

12. #12Megastructure

    Keys: Megastructure

    Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · After character · Order 2 · 100%

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    The Megastructure is the series of concentric shells that serves as the weight-supporting frame of the City and the computational substrate of the Netsphere. It is made out of an extremely durable substance, with only a direct blast from a Graviton Beam being able to drill through it. Megastructure-embedded computer chips "folded up into the Nth dimension" provide the data storage and processing power necessary to run the Netsphere. The durability of the Megastructure's shells, along with the chaotic architecture throughout, makes it extremely difficult to cross the City's layers. Even then, doing so results in massive Safeguard response.

13. #13Food Ration Bar

    Keys: Food Ration Bar, Ration Bar, Ration Bars

    Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · Before character · Order 100 · 100%

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    The food ration bar appears as a solid, hard brick of a homogeneous composition. the bar has a yellowish-brown hue, and makes a sound like a lump of chalk when tapped. When put in water, it appears to dissolve and self-cook into a bread-like edible substance several times its initial volume. The resulting substance is described as palatable indicating a potential source of nutrition. The bar itself is an elongated brick with dimples on the top, possibly for interlocking stability when stored or transported. Engraved on its surface are symbols indicating the preparation procedure, in which three images describe filling a container with water, breaking off a portion of the brick, then submerging the broken portion in the water yielding a larger volume of material.

14. #14Strata

    Keys: Strata

    Enabled · Selective (AND ANY) · Before character · Order 100 · 100%

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    Strata are layers stacked on top of each other, with each stratum being separated from the ones above and below by a layer of Megastructure. Strata vary in size but are extremely large, as it can take up to a month to climb the distance between two strata. Assuming that the City is spherical, it would mean that each successive stratum is quadratically larger than the previous one, which is a strong possibility.

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