Striving

The largest anacite settlement, Striving, is famed throughout the Pact Worlds as the seat of the Machine Court, an unfailingly logical coalition of robotic judges that arbitrate conflicts between residents, assist the network of governing AIs known as the Insight Array, and keep the peace between the planet’s factions. Over the objections of other planetary governments and even the Pact Council itself, the Machine Court offers androids and other mechanical beings from across the star system the right to be tried in their halls - even for crimes committed on other worlds - with no fear of extradition. The verdicts are always fair, and the possibility of having the facts examined utterly without prejudice makes Striving widely renowned as a haven for all artificial beings. Thus, many androids can be found living in those districts catering to biological creatures.

Striving is also a key holy site of the Church of Triune. It was here that the anacites created and still maintain the city-sized neural network of the same name, which gave birth to Epoch, one of the machine-god's three aspects. The three overlapping geodesic spheres of the Unification Cathedral in the city’s center stand atop a massive (and highly classified) subterranean factory producing drift beacons for priests to place around the Material Plane.

Government

Machine Court

Type

Large city

Population

Aballonians

Location under

Aballon

Included Locations

• Unification Cathedral