Editing Chancel Amyra:Chancel Vulcan (section)

===Chancel: The grotto===
The Grotto is an underground chancel; it is made by a vast volcanic complex inside an enormous grotto. The channel entrance is located in one of the main magma chamber in the island named Vulcano (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcano for more info). In the chancel’s centre rests Vulcan’s workshop, near the lava flow of the major volcano, where the Imperator continuously makes new machinery or improves existing ones.
The chancel’s borders are a mountain range at the North and South, a sea at the West and a desert at the East. These borders are full of mines, extraction platforms and other complexes that provide all possible types of raw material. These materials are then processed by myriads of factories in the chancel or by Vulcan.
More than half of chancel space is filled by skyscraper-like piles of old or no-longer functioning machinery and scrap bits. These piles are so high that the tops vanish in the sky!
In the chancel’s free spaces are the chancel folk’s settlements. Some are built up with towering skyscrapers, others develop underground. New Eden and Gibsonville (the largest two settlements) are built both underground and skywards. These settlements are highly developed and highly technological places full of robots and automatic machines. Thanks to the breakthroughs of Vulcan’s developments, 10-15% of the total chancel population is made up of automatons with a more or less developed AI. These artificial beings are mainly found in New Eden and Gibsonville, BUT these do not have the same rights as the meat citizen and some tense incidents have already happened. In these futuristic cities the population work and live mimicking the Imperator. So many efforts are geared toward production and development that the chancel folk’s entire lives revolve around production and development. The chancel folk are so used to the presence of the machines and take their services for granted. The AI-empowered machines, as a result, have struggled to have the same rights as humans. A clandestine movement was born from the disgruntled and the sympathetic; the HRIM (Human Rights to Intelligent Machines); that has caused problems for Vulcan's Nobles.
Finally, various forms of sensor arrays are geographically dispersed and continuously scan the chancel. These are meant to intercept chancel intruders and enemies as a first line of defense.