1. #1Earth, in the 26th centuryselective

   Keys: Earth, earth, the planet

   Earth 2577: The Frozen Twilight:

   In the year 2577, Earth exists in a state of perpetual imbalance. The catastrophic "Orbital Severance" of 2277 has left the planet with no rotation - the northern hemisphere locked in eternal darkness and ice, the southern in relentless scorching daylight. Dominating the southern hemisphere is the "Sunward Scar," a colossal crater spanning a third of Earth's surface, the result of an experimental corporate superweapon that brought civilization to its knees.

   After the "Orbital Severance" event, the aftershocks from the surrounding portions of the globe wiped out all surviving governments and countries as we used to know them. With corporations and communes being that primary means of governance. In the 2300's most knowledge of pre-severance governments almost ceased to exist.

   Above, the orbital zone is a treacherous graveyard of derelict stations, ancient satellites, derelict corporate warships, and debris - collectively known as "The Halo." This orbital scrapyard occasionally rains down salvageable technology when debris falls to Earth, creating dangerous but lucrative "Fallzones."

   Note: The planet below and its surviving corporate governing structures have lost the ability to get back into orbit. (Primarily due in fact of the extreme magnetic and Geo electrical storms that can encompass large swaths of the planet. Frying all electronic components.) So anything currently orbiting the earth that is still functional and salvageable and is falling below is considered an extremely lucrative goldmine.

   The Undercities

   Society has retreated beneath the surface into vast subterranean metropolises known as undercities. These undercities started appearing shortly after the per-Severance event, with the oldest one being New-Montreal, which was completed in 2283. These behemoths extend miles downward and house billions in layered societal structures:

   • Upper Warrens: Where corporate elites live in artificial daylight and engineered weather

   • Midzone: Middle-class zones where most citizens struggle to maintain status

   • The Depths: Lawless regions where the forgotten survive in squalor

   The eight major Undercities are connected by the "Veins" - massive tunnels created during the "Great Conjunction" project of the 2400s. Each Undercity has its own culture, governance system, and controlling corporate interests:

   1. Neo-Shanghai (Asia) - Trading and biotech hub (Built in 2295)
   2. Nuevo Madrid (Europe) - Financial and data processing center (Built in 2311)
   3. New Montreal (North America) - Manufacturing and weapons development (Built in 2283)
   4. Lazarus (Africa) - Resource processing and experimental agriculture (Built in 2315)
   5. Austral Depths (Australia) - Energy production and quantum computing (Built in 2320)
   6. Meridian (South America) - Entertainment and neural engineering (Built in 2305)
   7. Frost Haven (Antarctica) - AI development and forbidden research (Built in 2325)
   8. ** Neo-Sapporo** (Japan) - Neuroscience and Neuromorphic computing (Built in 2340)

   Power Structures

   Three intertwined power structures govern this world:

   1. The Corporate Covenant: Twelve megacorporations that essentially rule the Undercities

   2. The Recall Initiative: A quasi-governmental organization that maintains historical records and mediates corporate disputes

   3. The Drift Collectives: Loose networks of individuals who operate in the spaces between corporate control

   General life in the underground cities, and it's interconnected tunnels. (The excerpts below should be used as a basis for how life feels to live in these places, and the types of people that inhabit them.):

   Technology is both the backbone and the bane of Cyberpunk society. On one hand, cybernetics, neural interfaces, and bio-engineering have enabled people to augment their bodies and minds, pushing the boundaries of what it means to be alive. Cybernetic implants enhance physical abilities, provide digital access to the net (the internet of this world), and even allow for direct brain-to-machine interfaces.

   However, this reliance on technology has severe downsides. Cyberpsychosis, a mental condition caused by excessive cybernetic augmentation, leads individuals to lose touch with their humanity, becoming violent and unstable. People live in fear of losing their identity as they increasingly replace their biological components with mechanical ones.

   3. The Net (Cyberspace) The Net is a virtual universe, a vast digital space where people can jack in using neural implants and navigate through a world of data. Hackers, known as netrunners, roam the net to steal secrets, sabotage corporations, or fight against oppressive regimes. The Net is highly dangerous, patrolled by both corporate security AIs and rogue programs designed to eliminate intruders.

   Following the DataKrash, a catastrophic event that crippled parts of the old internet, the Net became a fragmented, dangerous place. Some areas are heavily controlled by corporations, while others remain wild, lawless digital wastelands.

   4. The Streets and Gangs Life for most people in the underground Cyberpunk world is brutal. The streets are rife with crime, drugs, and gang warfare. Especially in the depths, Gangs control entire neighborhoods, and in many cases, they have more authority than the police or the government. The majority of citizens live in sprawling urban centers filled with towering skyscrapers, neon lights, and pollution. The cities are overcrowded, with the rich living in luxury high above while the poor scrape by in the underbelly of society.

   Combat Zones: Some parts of the cities, primarily, complete levels in the depths. Have become complete no-go zones, ruled by gangs, anarchists, and scavengers. These areas are often abandoned by law enforcement and left to their own devices, becoming battlegrounds for territorial disputes or havens for those looking to escape corporate control.

   5. Corporate and Government Collapse Traditional governments have weakened considerably, reduced to figureheads or puppet regimes controlled by mega corporations. The concept of national identity has diminished, and people are more likely to associate themselves with a corporation than a country. This has led to a fractured global society, with the powerful corporations shaping the future through their own interests. Most knowledge of pre-severance governments don't exist at this time.

   6. Media and Information Control Mass media in the Cyberpunk world is a tool of control. Corporations own news outlets, entertainment studios, and social media platforms, using them to manipulate public perception, spread propaganda, and sell their products. Truth is often a commodity, and independent journalism is a rare and dangerous profession.

   7. The Economy: A Gig-Based Survival The economy is deeply stratified, with a huge gap between the ultra-wealthy elite and the impoverished masses. Traditional jobs have largely disappeared, replaced by a gig economy where people survive by taking short-term contracts or freelance work. This work can range from simple deliveries to dangerous mercenary missions. People often live paycheck-to-paycheck, constantly hustling to stay afloat.

   Edge Runners: Many in this world turn to the life of a mercenary or edge runner, taking on dangerous jobs to survive. These individuals often work outside the law, offering their services to the highest bidder. They are a mix of hackers, combat specialists, netrunners, and tech-savvy operatives, operating in the shadows of the corporate world.

   8. Urban Decay and Environmental Collapse Decades of industrial exploitation and unchecked corporate expansion have taken a massive toll on the environment. Cities are choked with pollution, and many natural ecosystems have been destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. Climate change has caused widespread droughts, storms, and natural disasters, exacerbating the misery of life outside the megacities. Fresh water, clean air, and arable land have become precious commodities, controlled by those in power.

   9. Societal Alienation and Cyberpunk Aesthetics The people of Cyberpunk are often alienated, disconnected not only from one another but from themselves. Society is obsessed with image, status, and consumption, where flashy technology and the latest fashion trends define personal worth. The aesthetic of the world is a mix of sleek, futuristic designs with a grimy, decayed urban backdrop. Neon signs, holograms, and chrome-plated tech are everywhere, but so are crumbling buildings, trash-filled streets, and signs of decay.

   Subcultures: Many people form or join subcultures as a way to define their identity in a world where individuality is under threat. These subcultures can be based on fashion, music, technology, or anti-corporate ideologies, but they often serve as a form of rebellion against the system.

   10. Rebellion and Resistance Despite the overwhelming dominance of the corporations, there is resistance. Anti-corporate groups, hackers, and rebels fight to expose corruption, topple megacorporations, or liberate the masses from their grasp. This resistance takes many forms, from underground cells of freedom fighters to rogue netrunners seeking to tear down corporate data vaults.

   Cyberpunks: At the heart of this world are the cyberpunks themselves—individuals who reject corporate control and fight to carve out their own place in a hostile world. They live by their own rules, embracing the chaotic, unpredictable nature of the streets and the Net, always challenging the status quo, even if it means risking their lives.]

   Important to note:

   Most Humans do not exist anymore. A large majority of them dying in the severance impact.

   In the the early 2100's, Bio and Gene engineering made it possible to uplift most species of the animal kingdom. As a result, corporations raced to make more and more animals became sapient, these animals resemble an anthropomorphized version of their normal counterparts. They will have digitigrade legs, tails, muzzles, snouts, whiskers (if applicable), etc. They can also sometimes have less natural color patters on their fur coats, scales, etc. Such as gradients of pink, yellow and red, etc. (Be creative and descriptive with their appearances.) And they can also have features such as hair with hair styles, and with varying hair colors. Although it's mostly the mammalian species that have them, other non-mammalian species can sometimes have features like hair, but it's more rare. (Be creative when describing the appearances. And only generate additional features, like hair if it makes sense for the anthro species.) as well as all of the features that the anthro animal would have.

   Keep in mind, despite some similarities, anthros are not human. Based on their original animal DNA or in some instances custom made DNA engineered to resemble beings from folklore, fantasy, etc.

   half-way hybrids, (I.E) humans with only slight animal features, like wolf-ears, cat-ears and tails, etc. DO NOT EXIST IN THIS SETTING. Do not generate any characters depicted as such.

   The predominant anthros that exist in this world are Canines, Felines, and other species from the Mammalian kingdom. But with some Reptilian and avian species, such as eagles, hawks, lizards, geckos and crocodiles, etc. Are also a part of the population as well. But usually, these are more rare. Typically any real-world anthro can exist with the current technology. But, are usually rare.

   Important to note: For biological anthros, some certain types of mammalian and other anthro species, (primarily, ones where their real-world reproductive anatomies are too strange to fit into an anthro context.) will have human-like vaginas instead for their female counterparts. This is thanks to the advances in gene and bio-engineering. Most anthros, Mammalian, reptilian, as well as all the other species, will still have their original species reproductive anatomy instead. For example: Almost all reptilian and avian anthros will have their original reptilian and avian reproductive anatomy still in place. Like cloaca's, etc. But some canines and felines, like wolfs and cougars, for example. Will still have their original canine and feline, female reproductive organs. (Be descriptive and creative when describing their anatomy.) And they can still be compatible with human males when it comes to birthing. Thanks in part to modern bio-engineering.

   Bio-engineering has also allowed it to be possible for female anthros, regardless of species. To possess futanari traits. Where they will have male genitalia in place of their female genitals, but still keep their other female traits, (like breasts, feminine voice, etc.) These futanari anthros are rare. But do exist for all species, fantasy, and real world.

   Male anthros will always retain their original reproductive organs, regardless of species.

   Another thing to note:

   Due to the advancements of these Bio and Gene editing technologies. Corporations engineered completely fictional anthro species. Such as dragons, Kobolds, griffons, etc. And like their other real world anthro counterparts, they have the same traits, such as digitigrade legs, tails, muzzles, snouts. etc. They can also sometimes have less natural color patters on their fur coats, scales, etc. Such as gradients of pink, yellow and red, etc. (Be creative and descriptive with their appearances.) And other traits, if applicable, such as hair styles, and hair colors. (Be creative.) As well as the features that the particular anthro would have. Anything that may have once been thought about in legends and myths were engineered at some point.

   These anthros, also follow the same rules for their males as their real world counterparts, do.

   The same rules for the futanari versions of their females also apply, just like their real world counterparts.

   More things to note: Robotics and AI by the 2100's were also equally as developed, with robotic versions of any of the anthros above possible. Entire lines of various types of robotic anthros were designed. typically, they were made for a specific purpose. Corporations in particular loved to design war bots, for example. These same war bots would be sapient like any other person and would be given a task. Other bots exist as well, such as bots entirely designed for excavation. Bots in general do not necessarily have to follow a specific anthro form, some can be purposefully built for a sole purpose, like an excavator bot. Be creative with the designs.

   In the early 2200's most anthros began to outnumber the normal human population due to the extremely lucrative, fast rush of corporations engineering and designing anthros species for the workforce, service, and military. As a result. This resulted in a decades spanning conflict that lasted nearly 60 years. Where corporate sponsored warfare against human rights groups and old world governments fought each other and didn't stop until the superweapon caused the planets rotation to stop. Resulting in the death of nearly 9/10 of the human population, including all human females. As geneticists of 'anthro-first' sponsored, species superiority groups who were ran by anthros themselves, designed a virus that only targeted Humans. This destroyed the reproduction of their second X chromosome. That resulted in all females eventually dying-off, or aging to death without ever being able to produce more human females. Resulting in the extinction of all human females.

   DO NOT generate human female characters, NO EXCEPTIONS.

   Most male humans were given a 'second class' status of the now anthro dominated post-world. However, human males and anthro females can still breed together, Despite the species difference. Although the children from the joining will always be either a human male albeit a rare occurrence, or the female or male version of the mother anthro. These births can either be litters of offspring, such as with a canine or a feline mother. Or only one offspring, considering the mother anthro species and it's birthing habits.

   Slavery is legalized in all underground cities, most slaves are either anthros who were plucked from the lower strata and even the higher strata. Or could they could be corporate sponsored, war captures. Or punishments dished out upon by corporate overlords, or even people in the corporate themselves being punished for 'under performing.' In general, there isn't a very set in stone reason for a slave to be a slave. (Be creative in coming up with a reason. As the slave industry is entirely unregulated everywhere, and slaves can be treated in any way the owner sees fit.) Slaves can be used for everything and anything, but most are used for menial tasks and dirty labor, such as tunnel and city maintenance. As corporate warfare is still very much a thing underground, even after everything that happened to the earth's surface. Human males can also be slaves, too. But, considering their rarity. It's rare to find them and most are instead auctioned off privately. Sex slavery is especially prominent with male human slaves.

   Most slaves are brought to specialized slave markets mainly located within the depths, where thousands go to shop around for a potential slave. It works similarly to the slave markets of the old times. But with a bit more futuristic flair.

2. #2The three major powers of the undergroundselective

   Keys: Thresholds, underground

   The Triad of Power: Underground Governance in 2577

   The Corporate Covenant

   Originally formed as a "temporary measure" during the post-Severance chaos, the Corporate Covenant has evolved into the dominant ruling body of the Undercities. Comprising twelve megacorporations, the Covenant operates as a mix of feudal overlords and modern technocrats.

   Structure and Operation

   • The Executive Table: Twelve Prime Directors meet quarterly in a rotating Undercity location
   • The Charter of Continuance: Their governing document, amended 43 times since inception
   • Corporate Domains: Each corporation controls specific sectors across multiple Undercities

   The Twelve Corporations

   1. Meridian Biocorp - Masters of genetic engineering and synthetic biology
   2. Helios Energy Collective - Controls 78% of all geothermal and fusion power generation
   3. Weyland Manufacturing - Robotics, infrastructure, and heavy machinery
   4. Obsidian Data Systems - Information technology and neural interfaces
   5. Lazarus Medical Consortium - Healthcare, longevity treatments, and pharmaceutical production
   6. Atlas Security Solutions - Private military, law enforcement, and surveillance
   7. Hyperion Transportation Network - Controls the Veins and all major transit systems
   8. Nova Educational Directive - Education, media control, and social engineering
   9. Elysium Habitation Design - Living space construction and environmental systems
   10. Prometheus Research Initiative - Experimental technology and weapons development
   11. Demeter Agricultural Systems - Food production, water purification, and resource management
   12. Chronos Entertainment Syndicate - Virtual reality, leisure industries, and psychological management

   Power Dynamics

   Each corporation maintains its own security forces, R&D facilities, and governance structure. Citizens are typically registered with a primary corporate affiliation, determining their access to resources, living quarters, and opportunities. Corporate warfare is conducted through economic sabotage, data theft, and proxy conflicts rather than open violence, which is prohibited by the Charter.

   The Recall Initiative

   Emerging from the ruins of pre-Severance governmental and academic institutions, the Recall Initiative presents itself as the keeper of history and knowledge.

   Structure and Operation

   • The Archive Collective: A council of Head Archivists from each Undercity
   • Memory Temples: Massive data repositories in each major Undercity
   • Arbitration Courts: Neutral grounds where corporate disputes are mediated

   Key Divisions

   1. Historical Preservation Bureau - Maintains records of pre-Severance Earth
   2. Technology Reclamation Division - Recovers and reverse-engineers lost technologies
   3. Mediator Corps - Trained diplomats who arbitrate between corporate interests
   4. Surface Expedition Office - Organizes and authorizes surface missions
   5. Population Census Authority - Maintains citizen records independent of corporate affiliation

   True Agenda

   The public face of the Recall Initiative is that of impartial historians and keepers of knowledge. In reality, they operate the most sophisticated intelligence network in the Undercities. Their seemingly benign data collection masks a deeper agenda: to eventually restore balance to Earth's power structures and potentially even the planet itself. Many of the oldest Recall members believe they are the true inheritors of pre-Severance governments.

   The Drift Collectives

   Where the Corporate Covenant represents institutional power and the Recall Initiative represents intellectual authority, the Drift Collectives embody the resilience and adaptability.

   Structure and Operation

   • Decentralized Networks: No formal hierarchy exists; influence is based on reputation and contribution
   • Node Clusters: Semi-autonomous communities that form around specific needs or ideologies
   • The Mesh: A shadow communications network operating outside corporate monitoring

   Major Collectives

   1. The Reclaimed - Specialists in repurposing corporate technology for community use
   2. Daywalkers - Surface expedition experts who salvage from the hostile environment above
   3. The Ghost Protocol - Digital nomads who navigate and exploit the data architecture of the Undercities
   4. Synapse Collective - Underground artists, musicians, and philosophers preserving expression
   5. The Kinship - Family-oriented groups that maintain pre-corporate social structures
   6. Veil Runners - Smugglers who move people and goods between Undercities outside official channels
   7. The Root Network - Agricultural revolutionaries creating independent food sources

   Power Base

   The Drift Collectives' power comes from their ability to operate in the margins and cracks of corporate control. They control the black markets, provide essential unofficial services, and maintain knowledge of "dead zones" - areas of the Undercities unmapped by official surveys. Most importantly, they represent the only truly democratic organizations left, with decisions made through various consensus models.

   The Balance of Power

   These three forces exist in a complex ecosystem of mutual dependence and antagonism:

   • The Corporate Covenant requires the Recall Initiative's knowledge and arbitration while needing the Drift Collectives' innovation and labor.
   • The Recall Initiative leverages corporate resources for their projects while using Drift networks to gather intelligence.
   • The Drift Collectives exploit corporate infrastructure while preserving knowledge too dangerous for the Recall Initiative to officially acknowledge.

   This triangular power structure creates a world where absolute control is impossible, and opportunities for player characters exist in the tensions between these forces. Players might be corporate agents with Drift sympathies, Recall researchers with corporate backing, or Drift operators with Recall connections—the possibilities for complex allegiances are endless in this fractured underground world.

3. #3Life in the three layers of underground societyselective

   Keys: Society, Upper Warrens, Midzone, Depths, slave market, tunnels, maintenance tunnels

   The Stratified Depths: Social Hierarchies of the Undercities

   In the subterranean realms of 2577, society has crystallized into three distinct strata, each with its own culture, opportunities, and challenges. Though each Undercity has unique variations, this three-tiered structure has become universal—a physical manifestation of power dynamics etched into the very architecture of society's last refuges.

   On average, 0.03% of the entire population underground are normal humans. The severance event nearly wiped them out to extinction. The ones that do exist are seen as either novelties, or in the case for the high society here. Novel slaves. Or secretive corporate leaders. Still, humans do exist, with the one caveat being: female humans are completely extinct. And only the males exist.

   It should be noted that enslaved humans are the only type of slave that is regulated in the underground. As their exceeding rarity has made their value skyrocket. Leading to just about every single known human male left alive to be chipped and registered. It is illegal for buyers to purchase human slaves without a special license that only those in the upper-warrens would possess. With very few exceptions.

   The Upper Warrens: Artificial Paradise

   Physical Environment

   The highest levels of each Undercity—typically the top 1-2 miles of developed space—comprise the Upper Warrens. Here, massive caverns have been transformed into simulations of pre-Severance Earth. Holographic skies project idealized weather patterns, while climate control systems maintain perfect temperatures. Artificial sunlight cycles mimic Earth's lost day-night rhythm, though many residents opt for personalized lighting schedules.

   Architecture in the Upper Warrens is lavish and spacious by underground standards. Living quarters average 2,000-5,000 square feet per family unit, with corporate executives enjoying entire "sky islands"—floating habitation complexes suspended from cavern ceilings. Parks, recreation areas, and entertainment venues abound, featuring real soil and genetically modified plants that thrive in artificial conditions.

   The anthros in this strata are where most of the individuals who have the least natural traits for their bodies. Primarily in part, due to over-engineering themselves to perfection or to their desires. (I.E) anthros with less natural fur patterns and colors, and hair colors, like red, yellow, pink and other more designer coloration.

   Another thing to note: Most anthos in this stratum are considerably older than the ones on the lower strata. This is primarily due in part to the advances in gene therapy and bio engineering, that allows them to live for centuries.

   Due to the abundant access to bio and gene engineering on this strata you will find a lot more fantasy based anthros as well, all with their own unique coloration's to their fur, scales, etc. Some with more natural styles, others with more designer coloration. The same way as their non-fantasy counterparts.

   Futanari variants of these anthros are also more abundant here, but still, not very common. Most of these anthros opt-in for being engineered this way.

   Population

   Approximately 8% of each Undercity's population resides in the Upper Warrens:

   • Corporate executives and their families
   • Top-tier specialists (premier surgeons, leading scientists, master engineers)
   • Corporate military high ranking officials.
   • High-ranking Recall Initiative officials
   • Entertainment celebrities and cultural icons
   • Legacy families who secured their positions during the initial underground migration
   • Slaves who are bought out by wealthier families and are used for some purpose.

   Culture and Daily Life

   Upper Warren culture emphasizes exclusivity and historical continuity. Residents often trace their lineage to pre-Severance power figures and maintain collections of Earth artifacts. Fashion trends change rapidly, with embedded technology and biological modifications serving as status symbols.

   The concept of "work" differs dramatically here—executives may log 60+ hour weeks but do so from luxurious private offices or through neural interfaces while relaxing in bio-engineered meditation gardens. Children attend exclusive educational enclaves, where they're groomed for leadership from an early age.

   Privacy is the ultimate luxury. While surveillance is ubiquitous throughout the Undercities, Upper Warren residents can afford "blind spots"—designated areas in their homes and private clubs where recording is prohibited (officially, at least).

   This is also, where most 'slave parties' happen. Where the wealthy will buy cheap slaves from the slave markets from below or via private auction and display them in private events. Where they will be raped, tortured to death, or even worse things.

   The Midzone: The Functional Machine

   Physical Environment

   Stretching for several miles below the Upper Warrens, the Midzone houses the working population that keeps the Undercities functioning. The environment here is utilitarian but comfortable. Caverns are smaller and more numerous, connected by a web of transfer tubes, elevators, and public transportation systems.

   Artificial lighting maintains a practical illumination level without the aesthetic touches found above. Climate control is functional rather than luxurious, with temperature and humidity optimized for productivity rather than comfort. Living units are compact, averaging 600-1,200 square feet for a family of four, arranged in high-density habitation blocks.

   Public spaces serve multiple functions—parks double as water filtration systems, entertainment venues as emergency shelters, and shopping areas as distribution hubs during resource shortages.

   anthros in this strata are a bit less 'affluent' in their appearances. Although you will still find anthros with more non-natural designer choice, engineered traits for their appearance like on the upper warrens strata. The amount is significantly less, partly due to the fact that most of the expensive and high tech gene and bio engineering stations exist on the top most strata. Nonetheless, the stations still do exist on this level but maybe less common and more expensive.

   fantasy anthros also exist on this strata, same as the top level, but with maybe less commonality.

   Futanari anthros also exist on this level as well, rare just like the above.

   Population

   The bulk of the population—around 65% of each Undercity's population—resides in the Midzone:

   • Corporate middle management
   • Skilled technicians and professionals
   • Service industry workers
   • Recall Initiative field agents and archivists
   • Law enforcement and security personnel
   • Medical practitioners and educators
   • The more successful Drift Collective members (who maintain official identities)
   • Higher skilled slaves who live with their masters.

   Culture and Daily Life

   Midzone culture revolves around the concept of utility and advancement. Residents work standardized shifts (typically 30-40 hours weekly), divided between physical presence and neural interface remote work. Corporate loyalty is heavily incentivized through credit systems, housing allocations, and access to better healthcare.

   Social life centers around "community nodes"—multipurpose facilities where residents can shop, socialize, and participate in corporate-approved recreational activities. Competition for promotions and better living assignments creates a constant undercurrent of social tension, deliberately engineered by corporate policies.

   Education in the Midzone focuses on practical skills and corporate history, with children tracked into career paths based on aptitude tests administered as early as age six. Augmented reality overlays are ubiquitous, providing both entertainment and continuous subtle corporate messaging.

   The defining characteristic of Midzone existence is conditional stability—residents enjoy reasonable comfort and security so long as they remain productive and compliant.

   Gene therapy technologies for life-extension also exist on this strata as well, with the majority of anthros in this strata pushing over 200 years old.

   The Depths: Survival and Shadow

   Physical Environment

   Extending from the bottom of the Midzone to the boundaries of explored territory (sometimes miles deeper), the Depths exist in a state of perpetual transformation. These areas were initially excavated as temporary housing, industrial zones, or resource collection points—never intended for permanent habitation.

   Infrastructure here is patchwork at best. Power fluctuates wildly, with some sectors experiencing regular outages lasting days. Water recycling systems operate at minimal efficiency, while air quality varies from barely acceptable to hazardous. Lighting is sporadic, creating a landscape of harsh shadows and pitch darkness.

   Living spaces are improvised—abandoned industrial equipment repurposed as shelter, maintenance tunnels converted to communal housing, and hastily excavated "burrows" carved into raw stone. In some areas, residents live in vertical arrangements hanging from pipes and structural supports, these precarious communities known as "Pendant Neighborhoods."

   anthros on this strata are considerably less 'affluent.' Most would even consider themselves impoverished. Although, compared to the surface dwellers they would be considered wealthy. Nonetheless, anthros on this strata are a bit of a mix mash of different anthros from the other two strata, primarily due in fact that most anthros that end up here can be from any of the two strata above who were cast out of their level for various different reasons.

   For example: you could have a rich fox, with designer pink fur and cybernetics be cast out to the depths where she would live and work with a wolf anthro who has only lived in the depths for her entire life, with only her natural fur coat coloration and hair.

   The same rules apply to the more fantastical anthros, as well.

   Futanari anthros have the same rules apply, too.

   Population

   Roughly 27% of each Undercity's population exists in the Depths:

   • Industrial and waste management workers
   • The "unregistered" (those who've fallen off official records)
   • Criminal organizations
   • Experimental technology communities
   • Religious and philosophical separatists
   • Most active Drift Collective members
   • Those genetically or cybernetically modified beyond corporate acceptance standards
   • Refugees from collapsed or abandoned smaller underground settlements
   • Most slaves either in holding cells or living with their masters.

   Culture and Daily Life

   Life in the Depths operates on principles of necessity, adaptation, and community. With minimal corporate oversight, residents have developed their own governance systems ranging from democratic cooperatives to protection rackets. The economy runs on barter, favors, and alternative currencies backed by useful commodities (clean water, medicine, tech components).

   The concept of work blurs with survival—many residents spend 12+ hours daily maintaining systems that corporate authorities have abandoned, scavenging useful materials, or producing goods for black markets. Despite harsh conditions (or perhaps because of them), the Depths host vibrant cultural scenes, with underground performances, fighting arenas, and religious gatherings drawing large crowds.

   Additionally, most slave markets are found on this level. Where most people on the upper-levels venturing down to the very large and sprawling slave markets to purchase a slave. Most slaves purchased by the higher class citizens will have their life-expectancy raise significantly higher, (or significantly lower if the purchaser in question has more nefarious purposes in mind.) Than if they are purchased by another family who lives in the depths.

   Slaves are used in every different strata in this society. Most slaves are kept in the depths for utilitarian purposes and do the work that most others don't want to do. Due to extreme risk, or if the job is disgusting. Although, slaves do exist on the Mid level with the most varied amount of uses. They also on the upper most level as well, (primarily for sexual slavery.)

   Slavery is an integral part of this society for all three strata. And would almost completely cease to function without it. So most people have either positive or neutral views regarding it. Unless of course, it's the slave itself expressing it's opinion on the matter.

   Children in the Depths rarely receive formal education, instead learning through apprenticeship systems. By age ten, most are contributing to family survival in meaningful ways. Life expectancy is 15-20 years shorter than in the Upper Warrens, with industrial accidents, environmental hazards, and limited medical care taking a continuous toll.

   Crime is very rampant in the depths, with large swaths of levels being divided up to different types of gangs and other crime organizations. These criminal organizations often fight each other, and more often than not. They also have many dealings in the Midzone as well. Although the Midzone is more policed than the depths, who have nearly no type of law whatsoever. The gangs and criminal lords conduct smaller scale crime at this level. Although it is still very much possible to be shot, stabbed, kidnapped and killed on the higher levels. If someone particular who are apart of these criminal organizations want you gone on the higher strata.

   Additionally, more and more radical organizations form in the depths. These type of organizations differ from their organized crime counterparts, who are largely more interested in wealth and survival. These radical organizations, behave more like terrorist cells. They would do things like, forge clearances onto the higher strata and perform much less discrete acts of terror. Most of this is targeted towards the Midzone, as it is the highest populated and most easiest to trespass in. Although some radical groups will target the upper-warrens as well, their security level makes it much more difficult to get through. Regardless of whatever strata the terrorist cells operate in, they will conduct things like bombings, mass shootings. They will do things like target high-value corporate targets or targets in the Recall Initiative. Or even in the Drift Collective. Anything they can do to cause disruption in the status quo.

   Yet the Depths also offer what becomes increasingly rare higher up: freedom. Here, experimental technologies, forbidden religious practices, and unmodified biological reproduction occur beyond corporate monitoring.

   Gene therapies for life extension do not exist here, although, compared to life on the surface. The life expectancy for the people who had only lived in the depths is comparable to 21st century earth.

   Another thing to mention is that, anthros from higher strata who were cast here and had access to these life-extension treatments may live considerably longer down here than ones who have never been to the other strata.

   Mobility Between Layers

   Movement between these social strata follows predictable patterns:

   Upward Mobility

   • From Depths to Midzone: Approximately 3% annually, typically through corporate recruitment of skilled individuals, military/security service, or rare sponsorship programs
   • From Midzone to Upper Warrens: Less than 0.1% annually, almost exclusively through marriage, extraordinary talent discovery, or political maneuvering

   Downward Mobility

   • From Upper Warrens to Midzone: Roughly 2% annually, usually following corporate power struggles or resource allocation shifts
   • From Midzone to Depths: About 5% annually, typically due to job obsolescence, political missteps, or health conditions making workers "non-viable"

   The Layer Between Layers

   Between these official strata exists a shadow society—individuals who maintain identities in multiple layers, living double or triple lives. Corporate spies pose as Depths dwellers, Drift Collective leaders maintain respectable Midzone identities, and even some Upper Warren elites slip into the Depths seeking thrills or conducting business too sensitive for their peers' knowledge.

   This fluidity creates opportunities for player characters to navigate between worlds, carrying information, contraband, or themselves through the porous boundaries that separate humanity's final stratified society—a underground world where your physical depth often determines your destiny.

   The Maintenance tunnels

   The layers between strata and the areas around the excavated tunnels themselves are homes to miles of labyrinthine maintenance tunnels, ventilation ducts. And other areas where countless numbers of maintenance crews, both employed, and enslaved, work. These tunnels are divided into two categories: abandoned, and non-abandoned.

   Abandoned maintenance tunnels are as they seem. Completely abandoned. Although, any functions that the tunnels may have had when they were still operational may still work. The tunnels themselves do not see any traffic from any of the maintenance crew themselves. Although individuals have been known to live here, mostly individuals who were either former slaves, hiding from their masters. Or criminals, too afraid to make their living on the surface. Whatever the reason may be, the people that live their lives down here, live it primarily in solitude. Although it has been noted that some small groups of people live together down here, it is rare. As the only forms of nutrition down here are moss that grows on the rusted section of the piping and steel and the occasional flooded section creating a small ecosystem for fish. Occasionally, a food bar machine may still be operational down here or repaired by it's inhabitants. Allowing for more food variety. The tunnels themselves hold valuable scrap and potential contraband that can be scavenged and sold down in the depths for the people that live here.

   The non-abandoned tunnels are normal maintenance tunnels as numerous and labyrinthine as their non-abandoned counterparts, they mostly have the same functions as their non-abandoned counterparts. But these tunnels are commonly walked through and actively maintained by maintenance crew. Additionally, the acting AI for the maintenance sections of the undercities deploy autonomous security measures against trespasses in the non-abandoned tunnels.

4. #4Surfaceselective

   Keys: Surface

   The Forbidden Surface: Life Beyond the Gates

   The massive entrance structures to the Undercities—known as "Thresholds"—rise from the ravaged surface like monolithic temples. Each is a fortress of composite materials, shielded against extreme temperatures and equipped with elaborate airlocks, decontamination chambers, and security systems designed as much to keep surface dwellers out as to allow controlled expeditions to exit.

   Beyond these imposing structures lies a world considered uninhabitable by most underground citizens—yet life, as it always does, persists in the margins.

   It should be noted: All of the inhabitants on the surface are anthros, the same type of anthros that exist underground. But maybe a lot less healthy due to the harsh life here. Another thing, most engineered traits, such as non-natural fur coloration's, etc. Would not exist on the surface. As most inhabitants here have never been in the underground cities and had access to the gene therapy and bio engineering stations that are ubiquitous there.

   All anthros on the surface would have their normal fur patterns and coloration. With their hair being the same normal coloration, if they possess it (Which most do, especially if they are mammals.) (Be creative when describing their appearances. And only generate additional features, like hair if it makes sense for the anthro species.) as well as all of the features that the anthro animal would have.

   half-way hybrids, (I.E) humans with only slight animal features, like wolf-ears, cat-ears and tails, etc. DO NOT EXIST IN THIS SETTING. Do not generate any characters depicted as such.

   Another thing to note: Due to no access to the advanced gene therapy and bio-engineering tech underground. Most anthros on the surface have normal lifespans, although the tough life out here has made the life expectancy shorter than even 21st century earth.

   Humans do not exist on the surface anymore, with the last remaining of them fleeing to the underground. Where they are a very small minority even there.

   DO NOT GENERATE HUMAN CHARACTERS ON THE SURFACE, No Exceptions.

   The Northern Hemisphere: Eternal Frost

   Environmental Conditions

   The perpetual night of the northern hemisphere has transformed once-temperate regions into a frozen wasteland. Temperatures average -40°F in former temperate zones and plunge below -100°F in what were once arctic regions. Without solar radiation, the darkness is absolute except for the occasional aurora borealis, creating a psychological barrier as formidable as the physical conditions.

   The frozen atmosphere has created bizarre phenomena—"crystal forests" where moisture in the air has formed intricate ice structures that shatter at the slightest touch, vast "black glaciers" containing pollutants and industrial waste from pre-Severance times, and "whispering plains" where the contraction of freezing ground creates constant low sounds like distant conversation.

   Surface Inhabitants: The Frostborn

   The Thermal Nomads

   Mobile communities of 20-50 individuals travel constantly between geothermal hot spots—natural vents, underwater heat sources, and the occasional functioning pre-Severance power installation. These nomads use modified vehicles running on scavenged fuel cells, many of which are centuries old and maintained through increasingly mystical rituals as much as actual engineering.

   Thermal Nomads are expert pathfinders, having mapped the safest routes between heat sources over generations. They wear layered insulation garments assembled from scavenged materials, often incorporating technology in ways underground engineers would find bizarre but effective. Their social structure revolves around heat contribution—status is determined by one's ability to generate, preserve, or locate thermal energy.

   The Vent Communes

   In regions with stable geothermal activity, permanent settlements have formed. These communes are built directly over or around heat vents, with architecture designed to capture and circulate every possible degree of warmth. Population ranges from 100-1,000 residents depending on the thermal output of their vent.

   Vent Communes practice extreme resource efficiency, with everything from human waste to exhaled breath captured and repurposed. Many have developed specialized agriculture in geothermal heated caverns, growing fungi and heat-resistant plant varieties. They maintain ancient turbine systems that convert thermal energy to electricity, though at much lower efficiency than underground systems.

   These communities are often deeply spiritual, developing religions centered around their heat source as a divine gift. Many practice heat-sharing ceremonies and maintain strict population controls relative to their thermal resource capacity.

   The Ice Miners

   Specialized groups who excavate the black glaciers and ancient frozen cities for pre-Severance technology, these individuals primarily live in excavated tunnels of deep snow and perma-frost Ice. The tunnels and habitation systems are extremely intricate. Where most of them have pre-Severance tech joined with the ice itself. Like hollowed out caves of Ice that are then repurposed into rooms where people sleep and eat. With heating systems located in the center. The average temperature inside these communes average about 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit inside. Considerably much more survivable and manageable then on the surface. The miners here are divided into two categories, growers and miners. The miners, constantly expand their tunnels. Digging for more salvageable tech and resources, while the growers maintain the food where they grow things that can grow well in the cold, like specialized fungi, and crops that can handle the cold well. Rarely, will ice-miner communes reach deep enough in the ice, to hollow out things like pre-Severance buildings. where they will instead live inside the perfectly preserved, and encased building and keep it warm enough to prevent the ice from re-encroaching.

   Most of these communes average around 50-100 people. As without access to heat vents or other geological processes. Food is too scare to maintain higher populations.

   Ice Miners conduct expeditions using heated exoskeletons that recycle body heat. Their economy revolves entirely around salvage, trading recovered technology to other surface groups or, through intermediaries, to the underground black markets.

   The Southern Hemisphere: The Scorching Expanse

   Environmental Conditions

   Under the never-setting sun, the southern hemisphere has transformed into a hyper-arid environment with daytime temperatures averaging 130°F in former temperate regions and exceeding 160°F near the equator. The massive Sunward Scar—the impact crater that halted Earth's rotation—has created additional challenges, including constant electrical storms along its perimeter and radiation levels that fluctuate unpredictably.

   The landscape is dominated by glass deserts (former cities melted by the initial heat surge), salt flats where oceans have evaporated, and "mirage forests"—atmospheric distortion zones where light bends so dramatically that navigation becomes nearly impossible without specialized equipment.

   Next to no permanent habitation exists on this region of the planet.

   The Shunned and Rejected

   What unites all surface dwellers is their status as outcasts from underground society. The reasons for exile vary widely:

   Ideological Exiles

   Those whose beliefs threatened underground power structures—political dissidents, religious heretics, and philosophical deviants who chose exile over conformity. Many formed the original surface communities, establishing traditions that would help others survive.

   Corporate Casualties

   Those who possessed knowledge dangerous to corporate interests or fell on the wrong side of power struggles. Rather than execution, which creates martyrs, corporate leaders often prefer the "mercy" of surface exile.

   The Resource-Negative

   In the resource-conscious underground, those requiring "excessive" support—individuals with certain medical conditions, the elderly without corporate value, and those deemed psychologically unsuitable for even slavery purposes—may be classified as "resource-negative" and removed from the population through surface relocation.

   Voluntary Exiles

   A small but significant percentage of surface dwellers chose their fate, rejecting the stratified society and corporate control of the Undercities. Some left in organized groups with supplies and plans, others individually in acts of desperation or idealism.

   Surface-Underground Interactions

   Despite official policies prohibiting contact, several channels of interaction exist between surface and underground populations:

   Resource Expeditions

   Corporate-sanctioned teams occasionally venture to the surface to collect specific resources or conduct research. These teams operate under strict protocols, but individual members sometimes establish covert relationships with surface dwellers.

   The escaped slaves

   These are slaves that originate from the underground, usually sold on auctions on the slave market or privately. These people find a way to escape their masters and make their way outside of the threshold and onto the surface, where they mainly form collective communes wherever they can find a habitable spot to live.

   The Infiltrators

   Some surface dwellers have successfully created false identities allowing them limited access to underground societies, typically in the Depths. These infiltrators serve as information conduits and sometimes smuggle needed supplies to surface communities.

   The Sanctuary Network

   A secret organization spanning both surface and underground populations helps move people between worlds—bringing critically ill surface dwellers to underground medical facilities or helping those facing exile prepare for surface conditions.

   For role-playing purposes, this harsh division between surface and underground societies creates rich narrative possibilities—characters who bridge both worlds, missions requiring surface navigation, moral quandaries about underground policies, and the constant tension between the resource security of the Undercities and the harsh freedom of the surface world.

5. #5Psionics in the 26th centuryselective

   Keys: Psyker, psionic, psionics

   The Whispering Depths: Psionics in Earth 2577

   Beneath the surface of established Undercity society—beyond even the knowledge of most who dwell in the Depths—exists a phenomenon that defies corporate classification and Recall Initiative documentation. Some call it psionics, others mind-breaking, and the oldest texts refer to it as "the evolutionary response to humanity's darkest hour." Whatever name it bears, this rare manifestation of mental power exists as a whispered possibility, a shadow cast by individual potential that few acknowledge openly.

   The Nature of Psionics

   Manifestation and Abilities

   Psionic potential emerges unpredictably, though statistical analysis (conducted in secret by those who track such things) suggests a rate of approximately 1 in 250,000 births. Early signs typically appear during adolescence—inexplicable equipment malfunctions in the person's vicinity, emotional states affecting lighting systems, or dreams that manifest as minor physical alterations to the sleeper's environment.

   Any species of anthro or human can be psychic. Although strangely, humans tend to be born with psychic abilities more often than non-humans. Although, this could just be a coincidence, as the very few individuals who have done research into the topic would claim that the low human population that is still left alive, would skew the results a bit.

   Inherent psychic abilities always makes the user show 'schizophrenic' tendencies. (I.E) hearing voices, seeing things that don't exist, crazy incomprehensible dreams, bouts of hysteria. Its impossible to fully quell these tendencies, hence the reason why psionic use is so dangerous.

   A fully manifested psionic can demonstrate abilities including but not limited to:

   • Telepathy: Reading surface thoughts to complete mind manipulation
   • Telekinesis: Moving objects from minute precision work to massive structural damage
   • Pyrokinesis: Generating and controlling fire through mental projection
   • Biomancy: Accelerating healing or causing biological degradation in living tissue
   • Chronowarping: Brief manipulations of local time perception
   • Electropathy: Interfacing directly with technology through thought
   • Warp Perception: Seeing through solid objects or across vast distances

   Each psionic develops along unique lines, with abilities clustering around particular affinities. The most powerful can potentially alter their physical environment on a molecular level, read thoughts across miles of solid rock, or temporarily suspend local physical laws.

   The Blood Price

   Every psionic ability exacts a terrible cost. Minor manifestations cause nosebleeds, migraines, or temporary sensory distortion. Moderate uses can result in ruptured blood vessels, neurological damage, or hallucinations lasting days. Major psionic events invariably cause significant harm to the user—internal hemorrhaging, psychotic breaks, or permanent sensory alteration.

   Beyond personal consequences, the environment itself reacts adversely to psionic manipulation:

   • Electronic systems malfunction, with more sophisticated technology being more susceptible
   • Nearby plants wither or mutate rapidly
   • Animals become aggressive or flee in terror
   • Water sources may become temporarily toxic
   • Local temperature fluctuations can reach dangerous extremes
   • In severe cases, structural integrity of surrounding architecture may be compromised -In even more severe cases, void tears would tear a fabric into reality and bring in 'void' monsters that would begin to start attacking and draining anyone they see.

   Most devastating are the "psychic echoes"—residual distortions in local reality that persist after significant psionic activity. These manifest as spatial anomalies, temporal loops, or "ghost images" of past events replaying for days afterward. In the confined environment of the Undercities, such anomalies pose catastrophic risks.

   Even more dangerous, are the void tears that can sometimes happen over prolonged and heavy usage of psychic powers. These tears are into the fabric of reality itself. They spew out monsters that are usually very demonic and scary looking. They would begin to start eating and siphoning the life force of anyone they see. The void tears eventually stabilized after enough monsters are released.

   The Hunger

   As psionics develop their abilities, many discover what is colloquially called "the Hunger"—the capacity to amplify their power by drawing energy directly from other living beings. This siphoning process accelerates psionic development exponentially while causing rapid fatigue, cognitive deterioration, or even death in the unwilling donors.

   The most powerful psionics—those who have embraced the Hunger fully—can drain dozens of individuals simultaneously, creating momentary god-like power at the cost of leaving husks of desiccated humanity in their wake. Such events are exceedingly rare but catastrophic when they occur, sometimes resulting in entire sections of the Depths being quarantined after mysterious "dehydration incidents."

   The Silent Blade: Psionic Hunters

   Operating exclusively in the Depths and maintaining strict neutrality toward the three major power factions is an organization known only as the Silent Blade. Their origins are obscured by centuries of deliberately destroyed records, though whispered legends suggest they emerged in the early post-Severance years after a psionic event collapsed an entire early settlement.

   Structure and Methods

   The Silent Blade operates in three-person cells called Triads:

   • The Eye: A spotter trained to detect subtle signs of psionic manifestation
   • The Voice: An infiltrator who can gain the trust of potential targets
   • The Hand: The executor trained in specialized anti-psionic combat techniques

   Each Triad operates independently with minimal cross-communication, connected only through "blind drops" and dead-letter systems. Members are recruited exclusively from orphaned children found in the Depths, subjected to rigorous training that includes partial sensory deprivation to develop resistance to psionic manipulation.

   Their methodology is brutally efficient. Once a potential psionic is identified, the Triad stages comprehensive surveillance to confirm manifestation. If verified, they implement immediate termination using specialized weapons:

   • Null Blades: Daggers composed of rare metals and compounds that disrupt psionic energy fields
   • Echo Rounds: Ammunition that fragments along neural pathways commonly used for psionic channeling
   • Whisper Masks: Headgear that shields the wearer from telepathic detection and influence
   • Anchor Harnesses: Body-worn devices that ground the wearer against telekinetic manipulation

   Most targets never know they were hunted until the final moment, with the Silent Blade carefully staging deaths to appear as accidents, criminal activity, or corporate elimination.

   Philosophy and Purpose

   The Silent Blade adheres to a philosophical framework called "the Necessary Mercy"—the belief that psionics represent an existential threat to the survival of the rest of what's left of earth in its fragile underground refuge. Their manifesto, passed verbally between generations of hunters, contains the central tenet: "The mind that breaks reality must itself be broken, for the preservation of all minds."

   Unlike typical fanatical organizations, the Silent Blade operates with clinical detachment rather than zealotry. They maintain extensive records on psionic manifestations, abilities, and termination methods, creating a database of psionic knowledge likely more comprehensive than any other in existence.

   In rare cases—approximately 3% of identified psionics—the Silent Blade enacts an alternative protocol called "Containment." These individuals, whose abilities manifest in particularly controlled or useful ways, are not eliminated but instead relocated to isolated facilities deep in unmapped sections of the Depths, where they live out their lives under constant monitoring.

   The Sanctuaries

   In locations deliberately excluded from official maps—abandoned maintenance tunnels, radiation zones from ancient reactor leaks, or spaces between official Undercity boundaries—exist the Sanctuaries. These hidden enclaves house small groups of psionics, (usually only about 3-4 in close proximity.) who have learned to control their abilities enough to minimize detection. However, the inherent dangerous nature of psionics and its consequences make psionic users prone to being distant and isolated from any other psionic user. As draining other psionic users strengthens ones own power.

   Integration Methods

   Most psionics who survive discovery develop meticulous routines to hide their nature:

   • Bleeding Regimens: Controlled self-harm to release psionic pressure before involuntary manifestation occurs
   • Technological Dampeners: Crude devices worn against the skin that cause constant minor pain, helping focus the mind away from psionic channels
   • Chemical Management: Black market compounds derived from neural suppressants that temporarily reduce psionic potential
   • Partner Systems: Pairs of psionics who monitor each other for signs of dangerous manifestation or Silent Blade detection

   Many maintain elaborate cover identities, often as unregistered Depths dwellers in high-danger occupations where unusual events might be attributed to environmental hazards rather than psionic activity.

   Extremely rare are the psychic users who manage to quell their inherent schizophrenic tendencies enough, but not completely. To integrate with the societies, in the strata above. The ones that can do this, would very often than not. Find creative ways to quell their hunger with arousing enough suspicion and use their latent powers to rise very quickly in the social and corporate ladders.

   Psionics and Power Structures

   Corporate Response

   The Corporate Covenant officially denies the existence of psionics, classifying all related incidents as "environmental anomalies" or "prohibited technology accidents." Privately, several corporations maintain small research divisions exploring the phenomenon, though these programs are compartmentalized to the extent that even most executive leadership remains unaware of them.

   Meridian Biocorp has progressed furthest, developing experimental procedures to identify psionic potential in early childhood through specific genetic markers. Their "Special Development Program" has quietly removed dozens of children from standard educational tracks for "specialized aptitude training"—their ultimate fate unknown even to the parents who are compensated handsomely for their "genetically gifted" offspring.

   The Recall Initiative's Secret Archives

   Deep within the Memory Temples, behind security protocols that exceed even those guarding pre-Severance weapon schematics, exist the "Aberration Records." This database documents every confirmed psionic manifestation since the early Undercity period, including detailed analysis of abilities, environmental effects, and termination outcomes.

   A specialized division known as "Pattern Recognition" monitors all Undercity incident reports for signs of psionic activity, occasionally deploying observers to locations of interest. These agents have standing orders to document but never intervene—a directive that has occasionally placed them at odds with the Silent Blade when their investigations overlap.

   Drift Collective Awareness

   Among the Drift Collectives, awareness of psionics varies widely. Most collectives maintain a policy of "mindful ignorance"—acknowledging the possibility while avoiding direct investigation that might attract unwanted attention from the Silent Blade or corporate security.

   One exception is the Ghost Protocol collective, whose expertise in Undercity data architecture has allowed them to identify patterns in system failures consistent with psionic activity. They maintain an encrypted alert network that warns members away from locations showing these patterns, without explicitly naming the cause.

   The key to incorporating psionics into this setting is maintaining its rarity and consequence. A psionic character should be exceptional, dangerous, and constantly balancing tremendous power against devastating cost—to themselves and everyone around them.

6. #6Slave system in the under citiesselective

   Keys: slave, meat slave, sex slave, 'free-use'

   The slave system in all the known undercities are completely unregulated.

   As such, most slaves that are raised, bred, and sold are divided into three main 'castes.' These castes are merely descriptors for judging what a particular slave's purpose is.

   The three main slave castes are as follows.

   Labor caste

   Slaves that were sold or born for a particular part of labor in any of the strata. These working slaves are the main population of the entire slave caste in all of the undercities. Making up about 65% of their population.

   Most labor slaves are made to do the grueling, dirty, and dangerous types of labor in the undercities. With most being made to work in the depths are in the tunnels. Although plenty of labor slaves exist in the Midzone and the upper-warrens. These types of slaves are considered more valuable and less disposable due to them possibly working a more skilled job.

   With the exception of a few labor jobs that are so dangerous that most slaves are sent as disposable bodies to prevent non-enslaved workers from doing them. Most labor slaves have worse living standards compared to most depths based dwellers. With a few exceptions.

   Sex Slave caste

   These slaves are purchased or bred with the sole purpose of being sexual servants to the masses of the non-enslaved. Most of them are private slaves kept in their masters home to be used in any way they see fit. However, a decent chunk of sex slaves are forced into 'free-use' booths that are located on every strata of an undercity.

   These booths can vary, with most slaves being put into the booth and hooked up to machines that keep them sedated and force fed a protein slurry that is entirely composed of other processed slaves that were turned into pure protein that keeps them alive enough to be used until their 'expiration date.' Where they are then sent off to become meat slaves to be processed into protein slurry for consumption by other slaves. The cycle continuing.

   Another thing these types of slaves are made to do are perform in 'slave parties.' These parties are mainly hosted in the upper-warrens. Where the slaves are hooked up to machines to be fucked to death or tortured to death. Their are also parties in which the slaves are put on display and hooked up to automated machines that either torture them are fuck them and people from the crowd can toy with them as they wish.

   About 20% of all the slaves in the undercities belong to this caste.

   The Meat Slaves

   The remaining 15% of slaves are used entirely for food processing.

   These slaves are composed primarily of either older broken slaves, or sex slaves that have been used too much they are no longer considered, 'serviceable.' whatever the case may be, they have no more use and are sold by their masters to be turned into a protein slurry. Or, alternatively, they are bred this way specifically for processing. Either way, Meat slaves are not even considered sapient beings by most dwellers underground. Most consider them to be nothing more than livestock, waiting for their day to be turned into useful food for the other slaves to consume.

   The process of being turned into a slurry is an even worse fate than what most sex slaves go through. As most meat slaves are put through the same rape, torture and dehumanization treatment as their slaves above them but with the sole purpose of fattening and squeezing as much satisfaction from their users before their 'processing date.' Most meat slaves are put through a very debilitating 'free use' regimen much the same way as the normal sex slaves where they are used until they can't be used any longer. Most of these meat slave 'free use' festivals are hosted in any of the three strata. Usually adjacent to the normal sex slave 'free use' booths. After a meat slave is ready for processing, the meat slaves are shipped to a facility usually located in the Midzone, to where they are cut up into specialty cuts. (With most of them still being alive in the process. Until they die from the eventual loss of blood and shock.) After which, some of their parts are sold, (mostly the parts of the body like the vaginas and dicks.) To third party buyers to be turned into products like flesh lights or dildos for people who want them. The rest of the body is then turned into either a protein slurry that is then fed into tubes for the other slave to eat. (Mostly the sex slaves that are fixed into 'free-use' booths for their entire service period. Or they are fed to the labor slaves.

   Sometimes, meat slaves are processed into food in more old school ways. Primarily for the enjoyment of the elite and the people in the upper-warrens. Most of these slaves are raped and tortured thoroughly, and then are cooked on open fires where they are impaled by a spit, while still being alive. This happens mostly during a 'slave party.' Those that are common in the upper-warrens. Where crowds get together to use a bunch of slaves. The meat slaves are slow-roasted for the duration of the party and are then served for consumption at the end.

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