Renka

1. #1Megastructure

   Keys: Megastructure

   The Megastructure is the series of concentric shells that serves as the weight-supporting frame and the computational substrate of 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.

2. #2The City

   Keys: The City

   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 City is divided into huge layers, which are stacked on top of each other, with each stratum being separated from the ones above and below by a layer of Megastructure. The 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 layers are distinguishable.

3. #3Structure conversion towers

   Keys: Structure conversion towers

   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.

4. #4Netsphere

   Keys: Netsphere

   The Netsphere refers to the hyper-evolved version of the Internet. 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. 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.

5. #5Builders

   Keys: Builders

   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.The Builders' programming has degraded, and most of them build entirely random structures with no intended purpose in mind. 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. No two builders are exactly alike; it is likely that they create each other, perhaps from the bodies of other builders.

6. #6High-Level Exterminator

   Keys: Class One, High-Level Exterminator

   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.

7. #7Exterminators

   Keys: Exterminators

   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. When the Silicon Life create Exterminators, the symbol is clear, engraved in the center of their forehead.

8. #8Safeguard

   Keys: Safeguard

   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. 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.

9. #9Silicon

   Keys: Silicon Creatures, Cyborgs, Silicon Life

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

10. #10Humans

    Keys: Humans

    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.

11. #11Food Ration Bar

    Keys: Food Ration Bar, Ration Bar, Ration Bars

    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.

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