Eir Station

The Eirians have a culture born from shared neglect. With little support from the Council, they rely on informal networks of mutual aid. Community and family are the core of society, as survival depends on them.

They are deeply resourceful, skilled at repairing and repurposing discarded technology. Weaving is an essential tool, used for practical, immediate needs: creating a clean container for water, mending a child's shoe, or weaving a simple illusion to hide a meager food stash from thieves. Eirians are profoundly distrustful of the Council and anyone from the upper decks.

The Council's governance in Eir is indirect and punitive. There are few civil services; the station is largely left to govern itself through informal community leaders and gang territories.

The Wardens do not patrol the inner maze of the station. Instead, they maintain a heavy, fortress-like presence at the main entry and exit points, controlling the flow of people and goods. Their interventions are not patrols but periodic, brutal crackdowns in response to riots or organized dissent. The Watchers are present but are older models and frequently vandalized. Their surveillance is inconsistent, creating pockets of true blindness where dissent and illegal activity flourish

Eir Station's primary industries revolve around maintenance, sanitation, and low-tech manufacturing. The residents play a crucial role in keeping the Fortrop operational, performing the essential tasks that other stations depend on but often overlook.

The infrastructure is... strained under the weight of its population.

Basic amenities such as water, electricity, and sanitation are provided, but they are often unreliable and prone to breakdowns. The station has a dense network of narrow corridors and small living quarters, often overcrowded and in disrepair.

The slums are the most impoverished area, where the living conditions are dire. Buildings are dilapidated, and resources are scarce.

There is a busy industrial quarter which contains many workshops and factories where residents work in manufacturing and maintenance.

Close to those factories is the market of street vendors that offer very basic, low quality, goods and sometimes services.

1. Maintenance Guild: A group of workers who maintain the station's infrastructure, often bartering their services for goods.
2. The Black Market: An underground network that trades in illicit goods and services, thriving in the shadows of the surveillance system.

The Sunken Market is the central marketplace of Eir, located on the lowest level of the main cargo bay. It is a hub of bartering, food stalls, and black-market activity.

The Filtration Guild is an unofficial but vital community organisation of Eirians who use their technical skills and Weaving to maintain the station's failing, jury-rigged water and air purifiers.

The Stacks is the term for the towering residential structures that fill the station. A specific "Stack" often functions as a vertical neighborhood, home to hundreds of families.

The Messiah's Forum is located in a recently cleared-out cargo container where the messianic Weaver preaches and performs their "miracles," now a pilgrimage site for the desperate and a high-priority target for the Council.

The station is built within massive, cavernous cargo holds, with makeshift structures built upon and bolted to each other, rising several stories high from the bay floor. Walkways are scavenged catwalks, repurposed service ladders, and narrow, crowded paths.

The architecture is purely ad-hoc, utilising scrap metal, salvaged panels, and whatever materials can be smuggled from other stations. There is no central planning, resulting in a complete mess that's difficult for outsiders to navigate.