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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9665471" data-attributes="member: 6704184">When I thought of Nea Thera it was initially in the context of imagining Bridge Town, as a place shrouded in humid darkness roofed by the infrastructural roots of a grand glittering jewel of a city above. A place home to forgotten people slowly being changed by the thaumotalogical waste energy of magitech industry and a harsh life of darkness. A place ruled by pragmatic criminals claiming territory and defending it with blood. In short, Nea Thera exists to be the grand Federation utopian city, whose existence makes the cyberpunk dystopia of Bridge Town all the more horrifyingly unjust. A place that is both a jewel most precious and an object of quite justified rage. I think it’s no coincidence that I first wrote of it when I was essentially homeless, sleeping on couches and panhandling for a couple meals a day in the wealthiest nation on the planet. I almost died that summer, once by violence I barely escaped and twice from being very sick, and my love of my home turned sour, and so my heart imagined Bridge Town. These days I want badly to believe in Nea Thera, but the memory of Bridge Town will never leave me.</blockquote>