The Basin
Overview
The largest sub-sector in the Meridian at 21.69 square kilometers, and the place where the sector's identity crystallizes around an absence. The old tidal lake was pumped dry during the drainage years, leaving a bowl of cracked earth that became the largest open-air market in the Sprawl -- thousands of stalls and blanket-vendors filling the basin floor on market days, their voices echoing off the concrete embankments where joggers once ran. The Transition Corridor cuts through the Basin's western edge, its three-block atmospheric gradient marking where corporate territory dissolves into Dregs compression. Five major infrastructure arteries converge here: The Long Mile, The Wire, The Promenade, The Undergrid, and The Deepline -- making the Basin the transit crossroads of the eastern Sprawl. Ironclad patrols push east. Guardian patrols push west. The people between them buy, sell, and try not to make eye contact with either uniform.