Editing Rue Katal (section)

==Origins==
The Rue Katal was a massive governmental center and luxury resort in a shadow which prides itself on its efficiency and its hedonism. It was the planetary capital of The Allied Regions of Gasal Katal.

The Allied Regions of Gasal Katal rested on a massive planetary road crossing the gigantic continent spanning a massive planet. 8000 miles east to west at the Tropic of Cancer.  A billion and a half people on the continent in a early computer age, with one working doctrine for their lives and business; He who makes the most people happy will make the most money.  Their entire industrial and agricultural industries are aimed at efficiency, productivity, and availability.  Each region has its specialty. Three billion people lived in other parts of the world in small islands in the Greenland size range and smaller.

The nation itself has nearly a thousand years of peaceful interactions and had lost interest in combat games and conflict negotiation styles.  
The Rue Katal itself was the center of a massive cooperative administrative center.

During the Black Road War the planet was crossed by a section of Black Road and it might well have proved doom for the planet.  But a world down the road shortly, [[Artriesta]], was a warrior & wizard world that took their war against Chaos down the road, west of Rue Katal.  The Grand Consortium of Rue Katal marshaled their material powers and provided food, weapons, and war materials to their sword and spell wielding defenders.  After the war the cross-shadow trails that had gone through [[Artriesta]] created more profitable branches through Rue Katal. The Rue Des Mondes developed as a commercial district dealing with cross-shadow trade.

==='''Rue Des Mondes'''===
Five major shadowtrails joined Gasal Katal after the Black Road War.  It provided a vast commercial district that traded in native merchandise and products from across thousands of shadows.  Microcircutry, high tech appliances and conveniences, and computerized vehicles could be found here and were often traded for magical artwork, potions, magical viewing devices and the services of wizards.  

The blending of technologies was interesting entertaining, enlightening, and moderately disruptive.  But a far greater disruption was soon to come with the creation of [[The Jeweled Road]].