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'''World of Note: Aaalaai'''
A warm, watery world populated by Sirens, Aaalaai is one of their premier colonies and a major point of interface between the Sirens and other species in the universe. The world runs in typical Siren fashion, without much in the way of a single government. Instead, each floating city has its own government that tend towards a semi-dictatorship under a Mayor. In turn, the Mayors form a single political block to manage things. This applies only to the unsubmerged parts of the city, people by those who are less bound to the water than the Sirens are. Under the waves, the Sirens asmacracy holds. In the underwater but air filled parts of the city there is constant negotiation between the two parts. Of particular contention is access to the pre-Siren ruins that can sometimes be seen from the cities when they drift to the right areas. These the Sirens only give access to with special dispensation.

''''World of Note: The Stew''''
Named for its thick atmosphere, the Stew is a worthless hunk of rock with microbial extremophiles as its natural biosphere. Heavy, radioactive isotopes fill the air which, along with the large amount of available land, has made it popular for those who want to go where others aren't. Because nobody cares about it, nobody cares if you come and set up a reactor or a dome or anything of the sort. Various sects, cults, and so forth have set up shop in the Stew. There are also several corporate headquarters technically here for the sake of causing jurisdictional confusion. The Sirens and other inhabitants of Aaalaai have zero desire to assume any responsibility for the Stew, allowing it to continue on as a lawless wreck of a planet.