Editing User:Bill/Hyperstructure Aurora (section)

==Society==
Within the hyperstructure one's status may be determined by his or her address. The more wealthy and powerful a person is the higher and more towards the center of the structure they live. The poor and recently admitted live in the lower, subterranean areas, close to the garrison and central power core. While that could represent a potential security risk, the waiting list for permission to enter Aurora is several years long and only those able to endure tremendous scrutiny make it through the process. Most of the workers of Aurora live at ground level and up to the first fifteen stories, along side the factories and hydroponic systems that sustain the population. Administrators and managers reside between levels sixteen and twenty-four while levels twenty-five to thirty are taken up by recreational facilities. Above level thirty are the living quarters of the highest managers and the ministers. At the very top of the titanic hyperstructure are the council chambers.

The existence of psychic abilities and the manipulation of arcane forces came to be accepted long after Aurora was constructed. The ministers have long upheld the conservative traditions of their forbears and thus the practice of magic remains outlawed within the hyperstructure itself. In the shanty-town that sprung up around Aurora over the last half century there is no such restriction. Similarly the use of psychic abilities is frowned upon in polite society though there is no law prohibiting psychics from living and working in Aurora. Psychics seldom rise above middle management or the rank of captain in the armed forces in this climate. Aliens are never permitted to reside in the hyperstructure, though they may apply for and receive work passes or enter with a special visitors pass.