Zhomad-Hur

Demographics

Reptilian abhumans known by humans as the Boiler People live belowdecks, where they tirelessly stoke peat into the engines so that they may keep themselves warm and provide suitable incubation conditions for their eggs. Their presence down there is tolerated because everyone knows what will happen if they don't receive food on a daily basis. The cultures of both races are alike in that they are both matriarchical, and humanity upon the decks of Zhomad-Hur is surprisingly most alike to that upon earth.

Government

This city-ship is perhaps the most politically powerful of them all, for it is prodigiously massive and the majority of its technologies remained intact, such as the bog-purifier and the secret arsenal of weapons locked deep beneath the confines of its hull. Zhomad-Hur is ruled by an Empress who is hellbent on salvaging and reverse-engineering technologies from the scrap fields rather than inventing them, thus technology on this ship is extremely anachronistic - and certain technologies she finds security in keeping them in the hands of her soldiers and officials and nobody else.
Her goals are expansionistic, and dreams of world domination, but first she must break the Rice Island Pact and make it true to its initials. Already the ship has made its transition to industrialism, with factories being constructed at precise locales so that the city-ship's centre of gravity stays where it should be, churning out vast amounts of products and demanding that evermore resource collections should be made.

Defences

The military of Zhomad-Hur is prodigious - there are thousands of sailors in their navy and almost a hundred smaller frigates flank the city-ship, which are armed with cannons. Zhomad-Hur is a monstrous conglomeration of cannons and assorted devices that can do many things, from firing freezing beams and a volley of grenades, or even sonic pulses which cause the muddy earth beneath enemy vessels to liquefy and swallow them whole.

Industry & Trade

The city-ship does not collect raw resources - instead it sends forth smaller ships to collect materials from nature or from their colonies, including the prized Rice Island. Many adventures have been had when resource-collecting has gone wrong, and hundreds of beasts have been slain and dismantled for their hide, bone and flesh.

Infrastructure

For the most part the infrastructure is very shit. The roads are nonsensical and heavily derelict, the sewers are prone to overflowing, and only a fifth of the population has access to the water provided by the purificators. There is also very little running water, most of it so filthy most people would rather drink fetid marsh water.

Architecture

Servants and officials live in an imposing complex of brutalist concrete architecture, whereas peons and common labourers live alongside social outcasts and slaves in a nauseating medieval sprawl where they are granted limited access to her technologies and thus cannot distinguish between human design and straight-out-sorcery, of which she has plenty.

Type

Metropolis

Population

830,000

Inhabitant Demonym

Zhomadite

Location under

Vramcharp

Included Locations

• Sixscore Sprawls
• Technofortress