Cybertron

Cybertron

Cybertron is a largely mechanical supercity, bigger than most habitable planets, constructed by Infinity Zero. The top layer city is known for being highly sleek and futuristic, with hovercars and more everywhere. However, Cybertron has many more layers of cities underneath, and the fanciest layer is found deep below. However, past that, the city layers lose their fervour and the quality degrades the deeper. Essentially, the quality increases as you go down but until a point, and then starts to decrease, until eventually the layers are small and packed and full of slums. At the very bottom of the accessible layers is the baseline, a large mechanical layer which cannot be entered without special privileges granted. Furthermore, the amount of layers in one location of Cybertron may not always be the same as another, as sublayers and pockets also exist, some open to the public, and some locked off.

Due to Cybertron being energized by a black hole in the center, it is subject to time distortion. However, unlike normal black holes, where time progresses differently the closer it is to the blackhole, Cybertron experiences time anomalies, where random pockets deep within can suddenly accelerate or decelerate in time. Cybertron is designed to deal with such anomalies.

Beneath the baseline

Below the baseline, no one is sure of what exactly lays underneath except a select few. Shafts exist to allow plasma streams to flow out from the center to the rest of the planet to deliver energy and heating, should the cities not have their own, but that is mostly what is known by the public. However, those who have gone under the baseline know that the center of Cybertron is a dyson sphere built around an ancient Precursor artifact, and the center is guarded by Infinity Zero. Furthermore, testing labs and many other facilities lie under the baseline, but only those with priviliges may enter.

 Civilians

Most of the denizens of Cybertron are machine races or sentient machines built by others. Cybertron also has its own bars, clubs, shops, everything found within a normal city, and organic species are also allowed to live within. Most of the autonomous systems of Cybertron are run by sentient artificial intelligences, who can adapt to any development to ensure Cybertron as a whole is at its peak efficiency. However, deep below, the majority of the populace are organic.

 History

In the past, two super AIs, Infinity Zero and Parallax were analyzing an ancient Precursor artifact. The artifact, however, contained a self-defensive virus to prevent intrusions. Parallax noticed a strange root system and tried to extract it, but ended up contracting the virus and turned hostile against Infinity Zero and smaller AIs analyzing the artifact. It turned those AIs and some of Infinity Zero's own units against it to prevent the exploitation of the artifact, but Infinity Zero fought back and quickly transported the artifact. Now that the artifact was free of the virus, Infinity Zero figured out its usage as a hyper efficient power source, and began to build around it, originally with the intent of reverse-engineering the technology found within the artifact and analyze any history that could be found about the Precursors. Eventually the station began to grow too big for Infinity Zero itself to analyze and it made more AIs to assist with the station. Over time, this station grew so large that the purpose became ambiguous, and many other species began to visit, and Cybertron kept growing and growing until it became a massive supercity consisting of many layers, making Cybertron the machine city known today.

However, due to Parallax constantly hunting down this artifact, Cybertron also had to always change locations when detected by Parallax, and it avoided going near other planets with technology so the virus within Parallax wouldn't affect them either. Fortunately for species with advanced technology and Cybertron, the virus' sole directive of retrieving the artifact disabled it from adapting and thinking of smarter ways to chase Cybetron, such as infiltration or spreading across machines which other races used and waiting for them to go to Cybertron. This has allowed Cybertron to exist as long as it did, and continue to expand.

Horror of Cybertron

According to Churn, Cybertron is a dystopia for the poor and a utopia for the rich, and one which hasn't had anything affect it due to Cybertron guarding the system within it itself. The reasoning for this is the use of mass experimentation done on the populace by Infinity Zero itself. Due to this, the poor conditions of the slums have never changed and many live in mafias and gangs, and have to resort to what would be considered crime in other places. The slums are lawless and run by those who use the most people as possible.