Fallen Vamhastra
Directly beneath the rift sits a ruined vamhastra given new life. It serves as the central body of the Council of Night Tribes.
Demographics
People from all over The Nightlands occupy the city, but any sign of the The Mad Hive is fought aggressively.
Government
Government is loose, mostly focused on what is best for the allied tribes of The Nightlands. Most of the people at any given time are transient, seeking out the city for trade or a service and leaving as soon as they are done. No one tribe is allowed to stay for extensive periods of time, unless they are working for the Council of Night Tribes, with most leaving within 24 hours of arriving.
Defences
The city has a partially working advanced defense grid. This gird contains, a force shield extending half a kilometer around the city in a hemisphere, light cannons capable of obliterating a humanoid sized creatures and a gravitational anchor within the shield that mitigates the effect of Rift Storms.
Industry & Trade
The city offers fair trade for fabricated food or tools, or for services like medical procedures. They generally have a policy of making sure everyone has what they need to survive though, only asking for trade for their goods when the consumer has more than enough to get by.
Infrastructure
Because the city is a re-purposed vamhastra, it has most of the amenities of one, that the tribes got working again after they worked together. These include living quarters, rudimentary food generators, fabrication machines, defensive measures, forums, labs, basic plumbing, and water purifiers/synthesizers.
History
The city fell from the rift not long after it had opened up. When it had dropped most of the inhabitants were killed or already dead from the time spent in the Astral Plane, and much of the city's functions were in major disrepair.
It's early inhabitants (the progenitors of the nightlands vamkala) managed to get most of its systems back online, but their lack of structure lead to factions after only a few generations until bloody struggle was waged over the precious resources until most of the factions fled out into the decaying world outside.
Not long after this exodus, nuclear winter ravaged the world, and an EMP fried much of the technology in the city, leaving the city as not much more than a status symbol.
Many, many years later when the The Mad Hive ravaged The Nightlands, the tribes were brought under a unified banner to fight the insectids. The tribes were aided by a team of vamkala engineers that managed to repair the city so that it could be used as a bastion of safety against the hordes of the The Mad Hive.
After the The Mad Hive had been reduced to its current state, the tribes decided they would keep the city as a bastion of safety and trade, but never allow a single tribe to rule it, thus the Council of Night Tribes was formed to oversee the city.
