The Commons
Overview
Three miles of contested neutral ground stretching from the old park system to the Edge -- the western cliff face where the continent meets the Pacific. At 7.72 square kilometers, the Commons is too large for any single corporation to control and too ecologically vital for them to ignore. The park's engineered forests have gone feral, their canopy thick enough to defeat aerial surveillance and their root systems tangled through pre-Cascade utility tunnels that smugglers mapped decades ago. At the western terminus, the Edge drops two hundred meters to the ocean, where the dam's turbine discharge churns the water white. Resistance cells use the Commons as transit corridor, dead-drop network, and emergency dispersal zone. Nexus has tried to sensor-grid the park three times. The fog eats the equipment. The trees grow over what the fog doesn't take.