Oraulan North Condemned Zone

Directly north of Port Oraulan, the Oraulan North Condemned Zone is a series of skyscrapers and other structures that collapsed around the time of the Valerian Empire but were never rebuilt. Officially, it exists outside of Federation of Stellar Systems territory and therefore, emergency services are considered unavailable in this location. Despite this, the local population have created makeshift houses out of scrap metal. Former high rise office buildings were converted into apartment complexes while broken elevators were converted into simple lever operated pulley systems. For many in the Condemned Zone, virtual reality is an escape from a difficult life of foraging for scrap.

The Federation's and Virtuoso's neglect to gentrify the area has invited many criminal gangs, making it a dangerous place to live in. The deepest portions of the region do not receive any emergency or law enforcement services, and any citizens in those areas are assumed to be in them at their own risk. Many homes are equipped with automatic defenses scrounged up from old military equipment leftover from as recently as the Virtual Wars. Even today, one can still find unexploded ordinances, weapons and decommissioned combat robots decades after the fighting stopped.

It is usually safest to explore this region with an AR avatar though some nefarious groups and even some automated defense systems may broadcast viruses or other malicious programs that may infect any AR users.

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