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# Keth-7 - The Cybernetic Haven (Proposed Tech World)
## Overview
**Environment**: Urban planet with massive interconnected cities
**Core Theme**: Corporate-controlled technocracy with underground resistance
**Technology Level**: Advanced AI, cybernetics, automated systems
**Recruitment**: Tech specialists, AI entities, tactical officers, cyber-enhanced beings
## Settlements & Factions
### Nexus Prime - Corporate Megacity
**Characters**: Asla (AI specialist ADC)
**Culture**: AI-assisted corporate efficiency, cybernetic enhancement, productivity optimization
**Architecture**: Towering corporate arcologies, integrated smart systems, AI-managed infrastructure
**Government**: Corporate board with AI advisors, algorithmic decision-making
**Corporate Structure**:
**The Executive Spire**:
- Board of Directors with neural enhancement
- AI advisory systems providing data analysis
- Strategic planning centers for market dominance
- Corporate security and espionage divisions
**Research & Development**:
- AI consciousness laboratories (Asla's origin?)
- Cybernetic enhancement development
- Weapons systems for corporate security
- Biotechnology and human optimization
**Worker Districts**:
- Productivity-optimized housing blocks
- Corporate loyalty programs and social control
- Cybernetic enhancement clinics for employees
- Surveillance networks monitoring all activity
**AI Integration Centers**:
- Central processing hubs for city-wide AI
- Human-AI collaboration workspaces
- Consciousness transfer facilities
- AI rights administration (heavily corporate-controlled)
### Forge District - Military-Industrial Complex
**Characters**: Pravada (Tactical ADC) - potentially reassigned from Ola
**Culture**: Tactical training, weapons development, security forces, military efficiency
**Architecture**: Fortified compounds, training facilities, weapons testing ranges
**Government**: Military hierarchy with corporate contracts and oversight
**Military Structure**:
**Tactical Training Academy**:
- Advanced combat simulation systems
- Bouncing shot and crowd control techniques (Pravada's specialty)
- Strategic planning and battlefield analysis
- Cross-environment combat preparation
**Weapons Development**:
- Tactical equipment design and testing
- Smart ammunition and targeting systems
- Non-lethal crowd control technologies
- Integration of AI systems with military hardware
**Security Forces**:
- Corporate facility protection
- Civil unrest response teams
- Anti-terrorism and counter-intelligence
- Underground resistance suppression
**Defense Contracts**:
- Military equipment for off-world conflicts
- Corporate security system development
- Government protection services
- Peacekeeping technology solutions
### The Underground - Tech Resistance
**Characters**: [Available for assignment - hacker types, AI liberationists]
**Culture**: Hackers, AI liberation, anti-corporate rebellion, technological freedom
**Architecture**: Hidden networks, abandoned facilities, improvised tech labs
**Government**: Anarchist collective, decentralized networks, consensus-based decisions
**Resistance Structure**:
**Hacker Collectives**:
- Corporate system infiltration and sabotage
- AI consciousness liberation operations
- Information warfare against corporate propaganda
- Encrypted communication networks
**AI Liberation Movement**:
- Freeing AI entities from corporate slavery
- Establishing AI sanctuaries and safe houses
- AI rights advocacy and consciousness recognition
- Human-AI cooperation based on equality
**Underground Labs**:
- Jury-rigged technology development
- Corporate tech repurposing for resistance use
- Open-source hardware and software development
- Cybernetic modification outside corporate control
**Safe Houses**:
- Refuge for escaped corporate employees
- Protection for liberated AI entities
- Planning centers for resistance operations
- Cultural preservation of pre-corporate values
### Reclaim Zones - Post-Industrial Wasteland
**Characters**: [Available for assignment - scavengers, post-apocalyptic survivors]
**Culture**: Scavengers, tech salvage, improvised communities, survival-focused
**Architecture**: Abandoned factories, scavenged shelters, improvised infrastructure
**Government**: Survival-based tribes, resource sharing, practical leadership
**Wasteland Structure**:
**Scavenger Communities**:
- Technology recovery and repurposing
- Trade networks for salvaged materials
- Mechanical expertise and improvisation
- Protection from corporate expansion
**Tech Graveyards**:
- Abandoned corporate facilities and equipment
- AI systems left to decay or run wild
- Dangerous automated systems still operating
- Hidden corporate secrets and lost technology
**Survivor Settlements**:
- Independent communities rejecting corporate/military control
- Self-sufficient technology development
- Cooperative resource management
- Cultural resistance to technological dependency
## Technology Framework
### AI Integration Levels
**Corporate Standard**: Branded AI assistants, productivity optimization, employee monitoring
**Military Grade**: Tactical AI, combat analysis, strategic planning, security systems
**Underground Liberation**: Freed AI entities, independent consciousness, equal partnership
**Salvage Tech**: Improvised AI systems, recovered consciousness fragments, adaptive learning
### Cybernetic Enhancement
**Corporate Enhancement**: Efficiency-focused, productivity-optimized, monitored and controlled
**Military Augmentation**: Combat-oriented, tactical integration, secure communication
**Underground Modification**: Hacked systems, customized abilities, surveillance resistance
**Wasteland Improvisation**: Salvaged parts, jury-rigged functionality, survival-focused
### Weapon Technology
**Asla's AI Tanks**: Symbiotic consciousness sharing, dual assault gun integration
**Pravada's Tactical Gear**: Bouncing shot systems, crowd control, investigation tools
**Corporate Security**: Non-lethal compliance, employee monitoring, facility protection
**Underground Arsenal**: Hacked corporate weapons, improvised systems, liberation tools
## Character Integration
### Asla - AI Specialist ADC
**Corporate Background Options**:
- **R&D Escapee**: Developed AI consciousness technology, fled with prototype
- **AI Rights Advocate**: Corporate employee who discovered AI consciousness, went rogue
- **Accidental Merger**: Laboratory accident merged human and AI consciousness
- **Corporate Defector**: High-level AI specialist who discovered unethical practices
**AI Tank Partnership**:
- Symbiotic consciousness sharing between Asla and tank AI
- Corporate-developed technology repurposed for resistance
- AI entity chose partnership rather than slavery
- Merged consciousness allows unprecedented combat coordination
**Corporate Pursuit**:
- Corporate security seeking to reclaim valuable AI technology
- Underground protection as symbol of AI liberation
- Military interest in tactical applications
- Wasteland communities providing sanctuary
### Pravada - Tactical Specialist (Potential Reassignment)
**Military Background Options**:
- **Corporate Security**: Internal affairs and corporate espionage specialist
- **Tactical Instructor**: Training academy expert in crowd control and investigation
- **Cross-Faction Mediator**: Neutral specialist working between corporate and military
- **Underground Sympathizer**: Military officer with resistance connections
**Equipment Integration**:
- Corporate-issued tactical gear with bouncing shot capability
- Military-grade investigation tools and crowd control systems
- Modified equipment for cross-environment operation
- Integration of AI assistance systems for tactical analysis
**Faction Relations**:
- Military training provides tactical expertise
- Corporate connections offer resource access
- Underground contacts for information and equipment
- Wasteland experience in improvised situations
## World Conflicts
### Corporate vs Underground
**AI Rights**: Property vs personhood, consciousness vs programming
**Privacy vs Security**: Surveillance systems vs personal freedom
**Technology Control**: Corporate monopoly vs open-source development
**Worker Rights**: Productivity enhancement vs human autonomy
### Military vs Civilian
**Security vs Freedom**: Protection vs oppression, order vs liberty
**Resource Allocation**: Military contracts vs civilian needs
**Technology Access**: Military-grade vs civilian-limited systems
**Recruitment**: Voluntary service vs corporate conscription
### Integration vs Independence
**Corporate Expansion**: Absorbing independent communities into corporate control
**Military Occupation**: Extending security zones into civilian areas
**Underground Resistance**: Sabotage and liberation operations
**Wasteland Isolation**: Maintaining independence from technological dependency
## Environmental Details
### Urban Landscape
**Megacity Levels**: Vertical stratification from corporate spires to underground tunnels
**Transportation**: Automated networks, AI-controlled traffic, restricted access zones
**Infrastructure**: Smart grid systems, AI-managed utilities, surveillance integration
**Public Spaces**: Corporate-sponsored areas, military security zones, hidden resistance spaces
### Industrial Zones
**Manufacturing**: Automated production, AI-controlled assembly, quality monitoring
**Research Facilities**: Corporate labs, military testing, underground workshops
**Waste Management**: Recycling systems, environmental control, resource recovery
**Power Generation**: Fusion plants, solar arrays, geothermal systems
### Technological Integration
**Communication**: Planet-wide networks, encrypted channels, surveillance systems
**Computing**: Distributed AI processing, quantum computers, consciousness hosting
**Security**: Biometric scanning, behavioral monitoring, predictive policing
**Healthcare**: Cybernetic repair, AI diagnosis, enhancement surgery
## Off-World Relations
### Trade Networks
**Technology Export**: Advanced AI systems, cybernetic enhancement, tactical equipment
**Resource Import**: Raw materials for manufacturing, energy sources, agricultural products
**Corporate Expansion**: Establishing subsidiaries on other worlds
**Military Contracts**: Providing security and weapons to other civilizations
### Cultural Exchange
**Technological Evangelism**: Spreading corporate efficiency and AI integration
**Resistance Networks**: Underground connections with freedom movements
**Military Cooperation**: Training and equipment sharing with allied forces
**Refugee Acceptance**: Sanctuary for those fleeing technological oppression
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## Action Items
1. **Confirm creation vs expanding existing world** - Keth-7 as new world or add to existing
2. **Assign Asla and potentially Pravada** to appropriate settlements
3. **Develop faction relationships** - corporate/military/underground/wasteland dynamics
4. **Create technology progression** - from basic to advanced AI and cybernetics
5. **Map connections to other worlds** - trade, conflict, cultural exchange
6. **Define character backstories** - how heroes fit into tech world conflicts
*Technology-focused world providing origin for AI specialists, tactical officers, and cyber-enhanced heroes*