OLYMPUS

Olympus

Olympus is a man made floating city somewhere between the Azores and Canary Islands. An arcology city, it rises to an astonishing 800 meters. Built before the war, Olympus is the most technologically advanced city in the world. Other cities use it as a model for there own rebuilding, although when it was first constructed it was looked upon with disproval.

Built to be the perfect city, Olympus is completely cybernetically controlled. The arcologies are designed to minimize shadows in winter and optical fibers bring natural sunlight inside. Olympus would seem a true utopia, but terrorism and political conflict are always lying in wait in the shadows as the rest of the world clambers greedily for its piece of the Olympus dream. The biggest political debate in Olympus is the ethnic rights differences between humans and bio-riods.

Gaia

Olympus is controlled by a super computer called Gaia. Designed to monitor and maintain the living environment of Olympus, Gaia controls electricity, transportation, water, communications, politics and all other essentials that keep the city running trouble free. The computer itself is incredibly large and complex, it was feared that someday the knowledge to repair it might be lost so it was designed to make self repairs and generally only non humans (clones and bio-riods) are allowed within the vicinity of Gaia. Gaia itself is the most technologically advanced machine in the most technologically advanced city in the world and is a major target for terrorism and sabotage.

Gaia's other main duty is to impartially legislate between humans and bio-riods. And only the Director can has the authority to intervene with Gaia. A group of seven bio-riods known as "The Council" who are programmed and tested for morallity and intelligence act as Gaia's CPU. Because of this, attempting to tamper with or otherwise illegally effect Gaia in any way is considered treason. The Gaia building is the single most heavily secured in the city.

The Citizens of Olympus

Olympus is huge and home to a very large population. Eighty percent of the population of Olympus are clones and bio-riods. Bio-roids were created by the pacifist leaders who built Olympus. Bio-riods are clones with genetic material from multiple mother sources, called hybrids. They go through special processing, including personality and emotional responses conditioned by training, education, and the child rearing environment. They can be considered the most compact, complex, and sophisticated robots imaginable and for all other aspects are indistinguishable from humans.

Clones and bio-riods are equal citizens under Olympus law and for the most part are treated impartially, although some factions of the human and bio-riod population call out discrimination and embark on acts of ethnic terrorism. Clones and bio-riods both require periodic longevity treatments (a recharging of their biological systems), without which they become anemic, lethargic and eventually die. With money any true human can have a clone made. The majority of humans in Olympus are scouted the counsel and brought in by agents of the Council and Aegis. Under the New Original Species Act true humans are not eligible for life extension.

Places to go in Olympus

Coffee House Onimal

Hitomi's coffee house and former home. Actually this is more of a bar than a coffee house and Hitomi uses the top floor as a dormitory for new citizens until they are established in the city.

Akechi Motors

The place to go if your looking to buy or repair a landmate or vehicle. Akechi motors specializes in the sale of police and civilian landmates. They also have a well equiped garage and an unblemished record for making repairs to whatever is brought before them. Although this is only one of such places in the city, I list this one because it employs everyone's favorite motor-head Yoshi, who will be more than happy to repair whatever you have and may provide a discount if the machine is to his liking and you let him play with it after it's fixed.

Gaia Building

This rather large building houses the super computer that runs all of Olympus. As stated earlier, this structure has the tightest security in Olympus.

E-SWAT Headquarters

This massive police structure is home to E-SWAT. It houses all aspects of E-SWAT operations, including a huge training area.