CYBERTRON

A planet with billions of people and billions of years of history, Cybertron is a complex world. The vast majority of its people have vehicle forms allowing for a broad range of transportation, which means most settlements formed as sprawling interconnected knots of tangled roads and intersecting territory. The ability to naturally travel several hundred miles in a day means community expanding quite far from the very onset. On top of that, the unique geography means some cities are underground, some are flying, some are strung across enormous canyons.   Even for a species so long-lived, the sheer amount of time that this world has weathered means cities rise and fall and fade into legend. Tectonics shift and bury old hallowed grounds. Culture moves on and people forget who came before. What secrets are there, hidden in the layers of this living planet?
 

Polities

Under the current regime of the Stratocracy run by the Grand Architect, Cybertron is a united planet, with 19 city-states and 6 ordinance zones.   Hexima State in the north is the largest ordinance zone, made up of Iacon, Altihex, and Nova Cronum, with a good amount of shoreline on the Rust Sea. Stanix Province is the second largest, taking up the south with Kaon, Ultrix, and Kalis. The Darklands have a fair amount of territory across the equator, despite only consisting of Nyon and Tarn and most of the Mithric Sea, with claim to the Sea of Ages in the north as well. East of Nyon is the Torus Heights, an ordinance zone made up of the equatorial Tri-Peninsular Torus States Praxus, Protihex, and Uraya. West of Tarn is the Tagan Heights, with Vos, Tyrest, Helex, and Polyhex, as well as a large section of the Rust Sea. The smallest ordinance zone is Alyon Province, surrounded by the Rust Sea and three other zones, consisting of Tyger Pax, Hydrax, Crystal City, and Rodion.   The hierarchy of civil authority is first the Grand Architect and his High Council, then each ordinance zone, then each city-state within their zone, and then each city or town. A distinction is made between different city-states, either a Torus-City or an Emirate. Due to the fragmented geology of Cybertron, each major landmass is divided by the great chasms of the Sonic Canyons, the largest of which have filled in to become the three seas. A proper Torus-City is one that encompasses and owns its own landmass, while an Emirate is one that is considered to be squatting or encroaching upon a landmass not their own, and thus is slightly subservient to the Torus-City whose land they live upon. Kalis, Tyrest, and Helex are Emirates of Kaon, Rodion is an Emirate of Polyhex, and Tyger Pax is an Emirate of Nova Cronum. Over the course of Cybertronian history, borders and polities and authorities have changed and shifted, so the modern pecking order of city-states and landmasses has not always been true.