The Undercity (intrest check)

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In the year 2800 Earth is no longer one little Island, and humans no longer live on it alone. Now they are a great and vast Empire. Humanity stretches out to the Stars, and the Earth Conglomerate now stretches out into the stars and throughout the galaxy. They have encountered many races along the way, some have become allies, some have become partners, others have become slaves. Incorporated into the Conglomerate by trickery or force. The cities of Earth have grown until it covers the planet. Not great towers soar up miles into the sky, up in the heavens where the rich and affluent live, and in the is mddle city, the working class and the moderatly successful. The poor however, the outcasts, the downtrodden, the forgotten, they fall down past the bottom rung. From the Surface to a mile up. This dark and degenerate part of the city called Earth never sees the light of the sun, it has its own climate, its own weather system, and its own rules. For the billions who live here there is no law, or order, accept what they make for themselves, with the gang, the cartels, and the micro-states of the Undercity.

BLOCKS​

The under city is divided into Blocks approximately twenty miles by twenty miles by one mile square. Each Black is one of ten blocks in a Super Block. Block are subdivided into Sub-Blocks of about one miles square. Each Block is sometimes dominated by a particular racial group but most are a mixed up mess. Often one gang or group will dominate a block.

UNDERCITY POLICE​

Police in the Undercity are less like police, and more like soldiers. Regular officers live and work inside fortified police stations deigned to withstand full-scale assaults. When police officer deploy for operations or patrols they are fully armed and armored and have an Armored Personnel carrier for transport and protection, and sometimes an overhead police gunship. Although they re encouraged to arrest they are authorized to shoot to ill and often due to the fact that only the more powerful cartels and militias would dare to shoot back under most circumstances. Although hey are not as well armed as the military. They are almost.

GANGS, CARTELS, AND MICROSTATES​

In the Undercity the law and order of the upper levels does not penetrate. The only law is what the people who live don there make for themselves. For the most part the gangs and the cartels make the rules. Often one or more gangs or cartels will claim a block, Running a racket and doing what the please accept when the heavily armed and armored Undercity Police patrols come through. Sometimes the gangs and Cartels are powerful enough to run entire block like small countries, running, administering, and employing everyone in the block. Effectively owning it. This is most often true if the gang or cartel is a part of an interstellar crime organization. Often times these criminals are fighting with each other for one thing or another.
The gangs are diverse. Coming from every possible background. Many gangs will fracture along these lines, with some only being open to aliens, or humans, or Buddhist or Havrasi, or homosexual or straight beings, or female supremacists or male supremacist. The gangs divide along very possible line of separation and countless numbers of them are constantly waging turf wars across the blocks, with only the strongest ones being able to control a whole block as their turf.
The cartels are generally better organized and funded than the gangs and will often hire the gangs as extra muscle. Unlike the gangs who ideology is as various as their numbers the cartels are usually in it only for profit, and use the Undercity and the blocks they control as basses of operation for smuggling, drug training, human trafficking, and other illegal activities.
As anyone not within direct line of sight of a Police Station in the Undercity is usually at the mercy of criminals, and even then they might be if the station has reached an accommodation with the local cartel or gangs. As ot even the police can always be counted on. Some of the Undercity's citizens have banded together for protection and developed small citiy states that are more or less bubbles of law and order. These very in size form a sub block, to sometimes several blocks and are usually controlled by a loose form of civil government and policed and protected by militia who more or less keep the gangs and cartels out.

SKETSIN DISTRICT
One of the largest of the many city states that cover the Undercity. It consists of nine directly underneath the skylines market district, and inside it’s boundaries is one of the few Undercity civilian landing fields on Earth. These blocks are where a huge concentration of poor or disfranchised Sketsin immigrants to Earth live. Many of these Sketsins were terrorists, rebels, former military, or political activists forced to flee their home after the Earth Conglomerate's conquest. It has a robust governmental structure as a result, and a very skilled and battle hardened militia who are not above using tactics that even many of the Undercity criminals would think were extreme, and few will dare challenge the Sketsin militia directly. On top of that they are very well armed. This district is one of the few places in the Undercity that can be considered safe as a result of strict rule enforcement by the militia. Going so far as even setting up their own customs inspections and checkpoints for people going in and out. The population is primarily human and Sketsin. They are allied with the Holdstead Republic and Evil Sun.

HOLDSTEAD REPUBLIC
The Holdstead Republic received its name from the Holdstead building at its center. The building was once the Capitol of Earth but has since been built on top of. This one hundred block micro state is easily the largest, and after to the Sketin block the safest. It was founded by a company of Undercity police who were cut off from their station during an attempt to force the Evil Sun’s out of one of their blocks. They rallied a few gangs and local militia around them in the Holdstead building and turned it into a fortress. That managed to weather the Evil Sun counter attack. Slowly people started to gather around the Holdstead building for protection. Slowly they started to expand and eventually they formed their own government and a military. Although multiple small gangs operate inside the Republic, none of the larger gangs or cartels have a foothold. This is mostly Because the Holdstead government has agreed to stop expanding if they stay out of its’ territory. Holdstead has a mixed population of all races and is the only micro-state to have n actual military, an army only, instead of just a militia. Holdstead is allied with The Sketsin District and the Evil Sun.

B BLOCK
B Block is a single block that has no government but a loose alliance of the people in the block for defense against slaver and gangs. The block received its name because it is both Block 1B and the occupants of the block are mostly human of African descent. The block is most famous for the B Block incident. When a group of Grom living in the block kidnapped, raped, and killed, several Sketsin females. In retaliation the Sketsin Militia set up IED’s and landmines all across the block. The conflict escalated with gangs form the neighboring blocks being drawn in until Earth Conglomerate Marines had to be sent in to prevent a full on war in the Undercity. B Block is allied to Sorga’s Gang, who have villages above them.

BLOOD TITHE CARTEL
The Blood Tithe Cartel is one of the most hated groups in the Undercity. They deal strictly in the human trade and not just slaving either but organ farming and as a cover group for group or individuals with the money who wish to conduct illegal human experimentation. They control half of block which consist almost entirely of slave market, body shops, splicing parlors, brothels, and anything else degrading to intelligent beings.

EVIL SUN
Evil Sun is an interstellar Crime syndicate started in the Undercity of earth, it one of the largest and most powerful of such organizations in the galaxy with its fingers and toes in every kind of illegal operation. It’s members are marked with a Dark Red Sun tattoo on their shoulder. They are Allied with the Holdstead Republic and the Sketsin District.

MAKER SYNDICATE
The maker Syndicate is a group that runs virtually all smuggling of any kind going in and out of Earth. The operate illegal landing pads and unofficially most of the legal civilian landing pads in the Undercity. They also employ a private army of mercenaries to protect their interests and operations.

CALBA Tribe
Calba Tribe is Run by Mira Calba and are a self styled tribe of Amazon’s who control three blocks on the Northern Boarder of the Holdstead Republic. They are known to work as mercenaries and to raid parts of the Undercity outside their territory for male and female slaves and female new recruits. Although they do not think much of men they do think very highly of honorable and skilled warriors of any race or gender. They have an Understand with Holdstead Republic and do not raid it.

SORGA'S CLAN
Sorga’s Clan is a clan of Vollas run by the family Sorga. They live in villages about half a mile above ground level between buildings. They work as mercenary’s spies, bodyguards, assassins, and couriers for the people of the Undercity. They are known for their professionalism as they never disclose information on their clients (unless you pay very very very well and they like you) and they always deliver on their contracts.

SHARK FINS
The Shark Fins are a gang of spliced who all have distinctly animal traits. They are known to run gladiatorial tournaments where they pit spliced humans against vicious alien creatures. They are led by a hulking and vicious Spliced who resembles a humanoid great White Shark.

MAJOR RACES​

There are countess races living in the Undercity, but some are more prevalent than others.

SKETSINS
Sketsins are a race of aliens that look very much like humans, they have dark grey skin, yellow, green, or orange eyes and orange blond hair. Unlike humans they do not grow hair all over their bodies, only on their heads, armpits, and groin. They come from a rather hot world that supports an unusual number of volcanoes which makes them very resilient to heat. They are about as tall and as strong as human though. Despite the similarities Human/Sketsin hybrids are very rare. They have a very communal culture that has a deep respect of woman and maternity, though it does see the roles of households and child-rearing primarily the work of woman.

HUMANS
Regular old average humans, although they might suffer from some minor mutations or splicing it’s nothing so extreme that they need to be called a separate species.

GROM
Grom are very interesting because of the striking difference between the two sexes. The females look very much like human females accept for their grey green skin, and a line of bone ridges running across their nose. Often human find them very attractive. He males however are several inches taller than human males, large, stocky, extremely strong, and often have an excess body fat. The bones of this ace are extremely strong and dense and they are not considered a sharp as most race and they are hairless. In their society males are often and females are seen as little more than property. They worship Havras, the god of plunder.

VOLLAS
The population on Earth was started by a group of slaves brought to the planet and escaped into the Undercity. Volllas are very lithe and agile aliens. Coming form an Avian ancestry they have hollow bones which makes them more fragile but extremely quickly the small talons in their toes make them excellent climber allowing them to make the most of the decaying Undercity’s landscape. They are rather cunning and sharp-witted creatures and often are a part of one or more of the Undercity's illicit business operations. Unlike most races the Vollas are asexual and do onto have any gender. Although it takes two to reproduce they have no gender. For this reason, they do not have gender roles or conceptions of them unless adopted from another race.

SPLICED
So different now they are counted as their own species. The descendants of splicing junkies who genetics are so scrambled by the half hazard mix of human, alien, animal, and who knows what else DNA one or both parents had that is impossible to tell what they started out as.

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