The Grid - where the action happened last time. It’s small, isolated (this exploration mission is the first time its ports have been opened since the previous jaunt), and home to a number of unusual factions.
The Colossus - A large, rugged System with bustling fortified city sectors and deliberately cultivated Wastelands full of unsorted junk data, the Colossus is one of the most militant and most heavily populated systems on the Network. A co-sponsor of the expedition that led to the recovery of the Grid, many Defenders (and a few Miners) were first booted & formatted here. The Defenders & Miners coming from the Colossus to the ZODIAC now are mostly young, cutting-edge Programs who found the wilderness of the Colossus insufficient to test their mettle. They’re conscious of the paranoid, tyrannical tendencies some Defenders showed on the Grid, and hope to clean the stain on their reputations and prove themselves worthy of facing new and exciting unknown challenges in the ZODIAC.
ZODIAC - the system being explored on this jaunt, a toroid (doughnut)-shaped area with twelve sectors. Very small, as Systems go. Known for its specialization and innovation, some thought the native Signifiers actually sought to become Users. Then their system fell into chaos, and the Signifiers vanished, leading to a very long quarantine of the System.
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The Colossus - A large, rugged System with bustling fortified city sectors and deliberately cultivated Wastelands full of unsorted junk data, the Colossus is one of the most militant and most heavily populated systems on the Network. A co-sponsor of the expedition that led to the recovery of the Grid, many Defenders (and a few Miners) were first booted & formatted here. The Defenders & Miners coming from the Colossus to the ZODIAC now are mostly young, cutting-edge Programs who found the wilderness of the Colossus insufficient to test their mettle. They’re conscious of the paranoid, tyrannical tendencies some Defenders showed on the Grid, and hope to clean the stain on their reputations and prove themselves worthy of facing new and exciting unknown challenges in the ZODIAC.
ZODIAC - the system being explored on this jaunt, a toroid (doughnut)-shaped area with twelve sectors. Very small, as Systems go. Known for its specialization and innovation, some thought the native Signifiers actually sought to become Users. Then their system fell into chaos, and the Signifiers vanished, leading to a very long quarantine of the System.