Spokes are the great central avenues that radiate from the base of the TerranFollowing the Transcendence Wars (2300-2310 CE), Terra became an inhospitable world compared to its pre-war state. Regardless, huamnity was forced to eek out an existence there with most survivors of ... More TechspirePlaceholder Faction: Transcendentalists Exists in: Realspace More (the largest of all SpiresSpires is a term for the more specific Techspire, Warspire, and Lorespire that are the three arms of the human Triocracy. In a broader sense a Spire is the center of power on a given planet and/or sys... More), travel through the Rise, and radiate out into the TangleThe term "Tangle" refers specifically to the mass of humanity on Terra that resides between the three mile tall Techspire and the Barrier which acts as the final dividing line between the Tangle and t... More stopping short of the BarrierThe Barrier is the outermost wall surrounding the Tangle. It separates the Tangle and Techspire on Terra from the inhospitable environments of the Zone. The Barrier is tall enough such that very few s... More. There are eight Spokes in all that are intersected by the Circles and tram systems.

As a Spoke approaches the Techspire is gently slopes up to enter enormous tunnels that travel through the structures and cubes that comprise the Rise, which cluster about and splash up against the base of the Techspire. Eventually the Spokes terminate at high security gates that allow ground access and egress of the Techspire … but these massive gates have not been opened in over 100 years. Because of the vertical curvature of the Spokes a Citizen standing at any point on the perfectly straight avenues can see along their entire four mile length, from Barrier wall all the way to the Techspire base and even up to the three mile high Pinnacle CityThe great city on top of Terran Techspire is known as Pinnacle City. At its peak it is three miles above the Zone ... what remains of the Terran surface. At this elevation Spirelings are protected fro... More at its top … assuming weather and atmospheric conditions allow it.

As a Spoke extends away from the SpireSpires is a term for the more specific Techspire, Warspire, and Lorespire that are the three arms of the human Triocracy. In a broader sense a Spire is the center of power on a given planet and/or sys... More it also intersects various TangleThe term "Tangle" refers specifically to the mass of humanity on Terra that resides between the three mile tall Techspire and the Barrier which acts as the final dividing line between the Tangle and t... More structures, including the First Wall, Second Wall (through titanic sized arches, which at one time were gates), and many tram and funicular systems.

Faction: Humans
Exists in: Realspace (Earth)