The Garrison
Overview
The old military headlands, 5.8 square kilometers of fortified terrain that traded one uniformed authority for another. When the armed forces withdrew, the corporate security firms moved into their barracks the same week -- the concrete was still warm. Now the Garrison operates as a compound district: walled perimeters, biometric gates, and private roads connecting executive housing blocks to hardened data vaults buried in the hillside. The fog rolls through the gun emplacements like it did when soldiers manned them, but the watchtowers track neural signatures now instead of ships. Three corporations maintain facilities here, none of them dominant, all of them armed. The Garrison is neutral the way a room full of loaded weapons is neutral -- stable only because everyone knows what happens if someone flinches.