N 38.20 · S 37.20 · W 122.60 · E 121.60
Old California|New California
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New California on the letterhead · Danger City in every mouth|Old California · before the Collapse · the same ground, fifty years back
Danger City
Five zones · nineteen districts · the Bay Area, fifty years from now
Zone 01 · the Core
The lights came back first. They never left.
The high ground and the money. Clean, bright, watched, and beautiful, the address everyone in the Fringe is taught to want. The Core does not look dirty. That is the first thing it lies about.
Grid|Always on
Light|100
Halcyon|The Quad|Silica|The Exchange|The Lux|The Meridian|~The gated hills
The Core
89.9 · always on
01
Zone 02 · the Fringe
The Fringe got them last, and learned to live around the dark.
The working flats below the Core. The grid drops twice a week and people plan their lives around it. Dirtier, louder, crueler than the Core, and kinder too. This is where the Dolls work and where almost every story actually happens.
Grid|Drops twice a week
Light|58
The Bottoms|The Cisco|The Vale|The Dreadlands|Dusky Valley|The Underline
The Fringe
94.7 · the working flats
02
Zone 03 · the Edge
Where the city stops trying.
The waterline. It rings the city on every side. Past the last working streetlight the wiring stops, the pavement breaks, and the old world goes back to water and weeds. The city names the Edge on its maps so it knows where it ends.
Grid|Off the city grid
Light|6
Drydock|Lastlight|Cold Storage|Mirage Marina|Tideline|Pacifica|The Colony
The Edge
99.5 · the waterline
03
Zone 04 · the Wilds
No wall. No border post. One checkpoint.
North and south, the drowned, burned, overgrown country the Collapse left behind. Freeways under root and silt, neighborhoods you find by their street signs. People go out into it. They are not, as a rule, heard from again.
Grid|None
Light|0
The Checkpoint|~Never named inside
The Wilds
104.1 · past the edge
04
Zone 05 · the Valley
A hundred miles north. The city calls it a fairy tale.
Princeton, Colusa County, on the river. A few hundred people, two river turbines, and duck rice in flooded paddies. A settled pocket inside the northern Wilds that Danger City does not believe in and never visits.
Grid|Its own
Light|40
Princeton
The Valley
108.0 · the green season
05
The survey
Nineteen districts. One city.
The Core Halcyon · The Quad · Silica · The Exchange · The Lux · The Meridian
The Fringe The Bottoms · The Cisco · The Vale · The Dreadlands · Dusky Valley · The Underline
The Edge Drydock · Lastlight · Cold Storage · Mirage Marina · Tideline · Pacifica · The Colony
The Wilds north and south · no wall · one checkpoint · The Valley Princeton · a hundred miles north on the river
05Zones
19Districts
07On the ring
01Checkpoint
50Years out