Iron Spires

Defying Nature

The Iron Spires stand as a monument to hubris. Dubbed the sunscrapers in their heyday, they stretched all the way from the bedrock, up past the clouds. The sunscrapers would not have been possible without atmodomes. The cutting edge atmospheric and terraforming technology was integrated into the very walls of the towers. With it, housing could provide personalized biospheres tailored to each resident.   The sunscrapers were not just a symbol of prosperity, but of the united solar system. The technology was made as an interplanetary collaboration, the materials were imported, and the finest plants from all across the sol system decorated the botanical gardens and greenspaces of the sunscrapers.   With the atmodomes as symbols of human defiance, of life in inhospitable terrain, people clung to the belief that the sunscrapers were near invincible. Even after the fall of Hun Kal, the Triumvirate told refugees to seek shelter in the sunscrapers. As the atmodomes and sunscrapers fell, one after another, the Triumvirate were forced to face reality. By the time Hokusai was obliterated, a planet-wide evacuation was well underway.  

Nomads of Mercury

The abandoned buildings contain a plethora of valuable finds like technology, keepsakes, raw materials, and perhaps most useful, shelf-stable provisions. The younger scavengers have taken to the art of scrapping, specializing into several roles such as ensuring buildings are stable, safely removing rubble, and disassembling technology to get at the light and expensive crystals contained within.

Sunbleached Wastelands

Each Solar Pulse ravages the surface further with magnetic storms. As the storms sweep through the Iron Spires abberant electric charges power the long-dead cities. All lit up, they shine as ghost cities on the horizon.