![]() Criminals with no weapons don't suddenly turn into investment bankers. Like any Darwinian model, there were always a few that managed to adapt in time to survive. Entire criminal organizations, deprived of the weapons they needed to defend their interests, evaporated overnight. Within eighteen months most criminals were in jail, disarmed, or dead. Their primary tools for doing business had suddenly become a deadly liability. What followed was a chaotic year of massive arrests and desperate gunfights as the criminals fought to keep their weapons. Suddenly every concealed weapon became a beacon, announcing the owner's position to any police drones within a three-block radius. They were automated drones that roamed the city, scanning the crowds, able to spot the telltale metallic signature of a weapon through solid concrete. Organized or not, virtually all criminals had been well-armed until the government released its so-called "Peace Sentries" in the early fifties. These two forces formed a sort of surface tension, preserving the aged, filthy, landscape of the Undercity in a bubble of social and economic forces. The surrounding city was driven by both a need to expand and an aversion to crime and poverty. New Atlanta had never been any more successful at ridding their city of crime and poverty than any other major metropolis, but they had managed to compress it into the very small, concentrated area of the Undercity. The buildings of the Undercity were short old concrete cubes, arranged in uneven clusters and separated by narrow streets and dirty alleys. ![]() ![]() It was a crater in the shining face of a city otherwise populated by magnificent structures that strove for the heavens and shone in the sun. ![]() ![]() The Undercity was named for its dwarven buildings that stood at the feet of the giant skyscrapers in the neighboring parts of the great urban network. ![]()
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