The Boneyard
The Boneyard is a reclamation district dedicated to recycling data-dense and glitched objects into free memory, making it a very important location for a city that produces such a great deal of new products, only to discard them as the winds of fashion change. Among Users, this region is of most interest to historians and archivists, since there's always an overwhelming backlog of old and often functional things to dig through. Because of its ugliness, most Users spurn the location, making an ideal place for outcasts and criminals to congregate. The location is not without danger, however, as Glitch infests the junkyards and Debuggers work to contain any large outbreaks.
The Crucible
Sitting at the northern edge of the district is a large data scrubbing device known as the Crucible. It is an ancient artifact made to delete junk data, minting Coin and free memory from it. The enormous device is said to be able to delete and reformat anything put into it, including Administrators, though that extreme has yet to be tested. Currently the Blue Bloods control it and the Process who man the reclamation device. Currently unknown to them, some of these Process have developed a religion around it.
District Trait: You may make a Desperate Find or Restore function roll during downtime or flashbacks to acquire nearly any kind of gear. 1-3: You are infected with a Glitch while rummaging. 4/5: The item you find is infected. 6: The item is normal and just needs some touch-ups. In either case of infection, start a Danger Clock with 4 ticks representing the Glitch's activation.
Faction Presence:
- Argon Entertainment (T4): Their war games occasionally spread to the Boneyard, using the copious junk as interesting obstacles. They typically play up the unwilling ReCyclers as a heel gang for their disinterest in playing by the rules.
- Debuggers (T3): Here, most of their efforts are to containing and recycling the Glitch-contaminated junk of the Boneyard. The amount of effort they put into it means that they largely tolerate the rogue Process that make up much of the ReCyclers, at least until they cause greater trouble.
- Blue Bloods (T2): A coalition of an ancient order of Users who considered themselves nobility. They seek to regain prominence by obtaining a monopoly on free memory by controlling the Crucible.
- ReCyclers (T1): This cycle gang takes in numerous outcasts that have retreated or been exiled to the Boneyard and works to protect the denizens from oppression. Boneyard denizens generally support them and show up to cheer them on when Argon forces their games on them.
- Church of the Crucible (T0): A small cult of Process who have come to worship the endless cycle of creation and destruction in the form of the Crucible.
Demographics
Process make up 90% of the population in the Boneyard, mostly consisting of junkyard workers and Debugger staff. The prevalence of rogue Process has led some to speculate that the presence of Glitch predisposes aberrant behavior. Most Process in the sector are unusually gruff by design to subtly discourage Users from visiting.
Daemons are next at about 7-8%, often searching for useful artifacts and materials among the junkyards to trade, sometimes "neglecting" to mention the Glitch contained in the items. They are known for being tough survivors and may hire themselves out as mercenaries.
Users are especially rare in the Boneyard, many of whom are voluntarily exiled from the rest of Neon society. Most Boneyard Users (aside from Debuggers) have developed a sympathy for their fellow outcasts who generally have it worse than they do.
District Traits
Data Struture:
Stable (1 / 3) Chaotic
Monitoring:
Security (2 / 2) Freedom
Server Traffic:
Global (0 / 4) Local
Products:
Value (1 / 3) Volume
Scenes: Massive, crumbling vehicles. Daemons searching for valuable scrap. ReCycler patrols
Resources: Nearly anything, provided you can restore it.
Threats: Glitched items, Shades, overzealous Debuggers, troublesome Daemons.
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