The register
Galatea is a port city that was carved before it was born. Each district is a separate place with its own materials, its own work and its own weather — you move between them through the station.
Arrival
Every citizen starts here. No crime, no Heat, no exceptions.
A working terminus, not a lobby. The signal ribbon and tannoy report what each district is actually doing, six platform gates board real trams, station staff keep their rounds, and the Notice Wall turns over every Cycle.
Civic core
Where the city keeps its records and its promises.
Neoclassical white and grey stone. City Hall, the Bank of Galatea, the Precinct and the Courts — the institutions that hold your money, your deeds and your sentence.
Commerce
Glass and iron arcades, and a shopfront with your name on it.
The commercial downtown. Market halls, player storefronts and the public market — where stock arrives by freight and leaves over a counter.
Industry
Red brick, gantry cranes and soot that settles on everything.
Where raw input becomes stock. Workshops run recipes each Cycle, and a line staffed by people out-produces a line staffed by villagers.
Port
Honest work by day. Other work by night.
Piers, cranes, container stacks and fog. The city's goods enter here — and so does everything that would rather not be declared.
Residential
Stepped streets up the hills. Most people build their first house here.
The residential district, and the usual answer to 'where do I start'. Lease a Micro lot with almost nothing down, or buy a Standard outright when the shifts add up.
Undercity
A literal city beneath the civic one.
Vaults, strung lights and wet stone under Marble Heart. Fences, the black market and the Laundry. Stylised, systemic, and never the only way to get ahead.
Green belt
Where the city stops being a city.
Market gardens and glasshouse rows. The widest land bank in Galatea and its largest standard lots — the place to go when you want room.
Exchange
Rectilinear, pale, and slightly too clean.
Glass, cold steel and the Exchange floor. Small plots, tall buildings, and the highest prices in the city.