Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Four:Special Rules and Systems (section)

==== Space Station Colossus: ====

The last of the great Space Age dreams, a vision drawn from Clarke, Heinlein, and thousands of other writers during the Golden Age of science fiction, Space Station Colossus is an enormous O'Neill cylinder floating between the Earth and the Moon near the L4 point. It flickered to life in 1984, when science fiction had largely abandoned its starfaring dreams. When it first appeared, Space Station Colossus was a glittering jewel in the heavens, ten miles long and containing fifteen separate counter-rotating sections. Today it is a run-down hole in the sky full of unemployed mane dock workers, bitter Atomists trying to create one Utopia or another, and failing mechanical systems. The air is stale, the lights flicker, and the "futuristic inventions" that litter its interior―vid phones, hover bikes, charming robotic assistants―never work right.

Despite its many faults, and despite its control by Lemurians with rather strange plans, Space Station Colossus is a sight to behold. Not only is it one of the best recruiting-grounds for beholden in the known universe, Colossus is a trading-post where Larvae, manes, and stranger things from the distant corners of reality can be found. The "aboveground" markets are bustling and well-run, and if a genius cannot find what she needs there, the deeper levels, close to the station's outer hull, are hives of criminality where anything can be found for the right price.