Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20171007004446

Ah city life, the 'true' way to live within a proper and civilized society. Most people within the Empire at least live within or at least near the massive mega cities known as: Hives. This is due to their massive size, the amount of people stuffed into them, and how they are built in both layers and in a spire shape.

Cities, as stated before, are built in massive 'layers' with some directly overlapping with others with occasional light wells cut into the uttermost layers to provide light for some of the lowest sections. In this grand scheme street after street are stacked onto one another in a massive pyramid shape with massive 'holes' connecting all the layers to each other and in the center or within the walls of these 'holes' are the administrative sections of the city as well as trains, transportation networks, and basic walking paths.

The rule of thumb is: The higher you go up in the cities layers the better with the upper spires being filled with palaces, villas, and fine gardens and the middle and lower layers filled with tenement halls and the more 'massive' buildings like stadiums and arenas to entertain the masses. Generally in every ring streets serve duel purpose they are both for travel, but also make great market places with pretty every single street becoming virtually it's own market with shops, stalls, and small businesses within the tenement halls themselves.

The lowest levels are massive slums where the run off, garbage, and sentient waste of the city goes into the dark layers to, for the most part, never be seen again. Down here, if at all, the streets are light by sickly green lights and are dens of all sorts of dregs. The law enforcement rarely ventures into the under city unless necessary or looking for some slaves in a hurry.

Cities are for the most part thriving economic centers with the masses of the Empire's population living in a sense of order, prosperity, and security save those in the under city. The roads are always clean, crime is dealt with swiftly, and for the most part goods and food is cheap and entertainment is usually free. The work done in the cities themselves varies from district to district with most being technical or scribal in nature with some cities having industrial districts. For the brute labor needed to keep the city running slaves and artificials are used and at times criminals or impressed citizens.

The residents of the city are (generally) divided up into basic ethnic 'districts' to keep strife down and to keep some sense of community. Although most cities also have vast districts where anyone can live, but must conform to basic Imperial society. The people themselves are split into a few major groups:

- The Nobles of the city live in the uppermost spires and are the rich and wealthy of the city as well as making up it's ruling class. They live in opulent villas and palaces with hoards of slaves and gifts to keep them busy. They are also 'philanthropists' always giving to the poor and regular citizens normally looking for their vote or to stay the mod

- The Merchants/Overseers/Administrators are the upper middle class of a city who dominate it's economic life and tend to own a business of some sort or directly for the state bureaucracy. They tend to live in the lower spires near the rich.

- Citizens are the main body of the city's population living in the mast 'middle layers' and doing all sorts of jobs. They tend to live in decent sized apartments and maybe own a slave or two.

- Proles are the poor who live in the vast tenements and work directly for the state and it's glory. They tend to do more labor intensive work or the just plain boring work.

- Skids/Dregs are the criminals and the poor the state could care less about that live in the under cities and generally run their own affairs out of the peering eye of the state.

Overall Imperial cities are rather fine places to live with every citizen guaranteed a job and apartment by the state and if they wish they could find their own private work and housing. Food and goods prices are relatively cheap and all the hard work is done by the lowest classes who even then don't get the worse jobs in the Empire. Entertainment is pretty much free and festivals and holidays are common and the gifts the rich hand out even more common! 