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The four tiers of Deshret, from the slums under the surface down to the palaces at the bottom.
Suburba
Suburba is the top of the city, just under the surface airlocks. It is a crowded sprawl of workshops, farms, and tenement pods full of refugees, labourers, and outlaws. The Kolkhos runs the food vats here. The Cabiri run the chop-shops, and the Abkal tend the Cortex. The Ophirian League controls the trade bourses, and the Coterie runs the vice dens.
Most people call the Suburba floors by name rather than by number. Ophir (L-03) is the League's market floor. Lemnos (L-04) is Cabiri workshops and gantries. Eridu (L-05) is the tech floor, home to the Abkal's Cortex. Sybaris (L-06) is the Coterie's vice floor. The Dorters (L-07) is capsules and coffin blocks, and newcomers wake up there. Zarya (L-08) is the Kolkhos farm floor.
Delos
Delos is the commercial and industrial middle of the city, owned and run by the Six Guilds. Its corridors are lined with corporate towers, testing bays, and licensed trade halls. Guild security patrols every floor and answers only to guild leadership.
Arcadia
Arcadia is where the guild workers, the sixers, live. You need an active guild contract or a noble sponsor to live here. In return you get private security gates, steady power, and clean water.
Palatine
Palatine is the bottom of the city, also called the deeps. Air scrubbers and geothermal power keep it sealed off from the slums above. Here stand the palaces of the nine Great Houses of the Pagos, and the Cathedral of Sepulchre.
Read next: help deshret, help guilds, and help great houses.
For the Suburban factions, see help cabiri, help kolkhos, help ophirian league, help abkal, and help coterie.
On the Agora: https://agora.underspire.net/t/districts/58