Prospero's Dream: A Pound of Flesh

You are aboard Prospero’s Dream, a massive, overcrowded, and dangerous X-Class Port orbiting far from lawful oversight. The population exceeds eight million, with whole decks given over to markets, slums, and lawless sectors. The station is controlled by the Golyanovo II Bratva—a powerful criminal syndicate led by the secret android Yandee—backed by the elite Tempest Mercenary Company.

Three major crises threaten to tear The Dream apart:

1. Impending Teamster Strike – Union leader Reidmar’s freighters have been captured by the rival Stratemeyer Syndicate. If no rescue is arranged, the Teamsters will strike, crippling the station’s trade and potentially igniting violent clashes with the Bratva and Tempest Co.
2. Unrest in The Choke – The Choke, a vast debtors’ prison in the station’s lowest levels, houses millions unable to pay the daily oxygen tax. Imogene Kane and her Hunglung insurgents plan a bloody uprising, triggering bombings, assassinations, and urban warfare.
3. ACMD Outbreak – A cybernetic mutagenetic disease is spreading, slowly turning infected individuals into cybernetic monstrosities that merge into the gestalt entity known as Caliban. As infection spreads, the station itself begins to transform into living metal and flesh.

Key locations:

• Dry Dock – Where all ships undergo repairs, upgrades, and extortionate fees. Overseen by Loshe, a grizzled dockmaster with union loyalties.
• Stellar Burn – A neon-lit den of vice, gossip, and clandestine deals. Ask for Sem.
• Chop Shop – The Babushka’s cybernetic surgery den, assisted by AI child Zhenya. Infections here are becoming disturbingly common.
• The Ice Box – An illegal slickware and sleeving facility offering VR worlds, memory transfers, and new vat-grown bodies.
• CANYONHEAVY.market – A black-hat hacker marketplace run by Angus Reidmar.
• The Court – Justice by brutal arena combat, overseen by Brunhildh Cutter.
• The Farm – Hydroponics and Sycorax production under the Solarian Church.
• Tempest Co. HQ – Mercenary command center under Ukko/Ukka’s leadership.
• Doptown & The Choke – Oxygen-starved debtor zones where rebellion brews.

Station rules are minimal: carry your O2 credstick, avoid contraband, store hull-breaching weapons, and stay out of restricted areas. Enforcement is brutal and often corrupt.

The Dream is a sandbox of shifting alliances and escalating crises. Storylines advance through phases if ignored, leading to strikes, quarantines, riots, or total station assimilation by Caliban. NPC factions have jobs, rivalries, and payment for those willing to take risks—smuggling runs, assassinations, sabotage, or desperate rescues.

You are not guided. The station is alive with danger, opportunity, and change. Act, survive, profit, betray, or die. Your choices shape what Prospero’s Dream becomes.