Locations
Three metropolitan areas, three nations, and everywhere inside Los Angeles worth naming.
Sorted by scale, because "location" covers a nation and a stairwell and the difference matters when you're planning. Start at the top if you don't know where you are yet.
Metropolitan areas and nations
The places that contain the other places. Three areas on this coast, the nation that surrounds one of them, and the two governments that expelled us — one of which still holds most of the paperwork.
| Los Angeles | Home. Twenty million people, no government, no country. Where the ruin is, what held, and how you get in |
| Orange County | Fun City and the gated ground behind it. Not ours, not Pueblo's, not Aztechnology's — and it licenses everything we can't |
| San Diego | Sealed for ten years, a hundred and twenty miles down the coast. Everyone knows where the line is; nobody knows what's behind it |
| Pueblo | The nation on the other side of every road out. Holds the water, the passes and the aqueducts, and runs its border like a procurement department |
| California Free State | What's left of California, governing from Sacramento. It threw us out in 2057 and still holds the paperwork half this city runs on |
| The UCAS | The Union, two thousand miles away. It threw California out in 2050 and hasn't thought about us since. Its SIN is the one worth forging |
Neighbourhoods
Districts inside Los Angeles, roughly west to east.
| Malibu | Ash country. Standing mansions, no owners, no insurance, and one road |
| Santa Monica | Eight square miles that still governs itself, looking down at an ocean it can't use |
| West LA | Century City's towers, Westwood's university, and a lot of fence between them |
| West Hollywood | One point nine square miles with a working city government, because it built one once already |
| Hollywood | Money goes uphill. Trouble runs along the boulevards |
| Koreatown and Mid-City | The densest ground in Los Angeles and nobody administers it. This is where the crew lives |
| Downtown | A corporate haven that failed, with a fortified core that didn't |
| The Beach Cities | Inside El Infierno. Aerospace behind fences, ghost towns outside them |
| Long Beach and San Pedro | The richest ground in the city, inside the cordon, behind the same fence as a million poisoned people |
Places
Single buildings, single facilities, and one river. Each of these is somewhere a run actually happens.
| Oceanwide Plaza | Three unfinished towers downtown that nobody owns and everybody uses |
| Santa Monica Pier | Three decks over closed water. The one ground in that district nobody can zone |
| The Coliseum | Ninety thousand seats, and a card every Wednesday nobody had to license |
| Crypto.com Arena | Three dead words and a full stop. Locals say Staples. The one venue that still looks legitimate |
| Union Station | The land border, and the reason the trains still run |
| Santa Monica Airport | Two hundred acres of contested jurisdiction, which is why everything comes through here |
| The Getty | A fortress on a ridge holding the originals, reachable by one driverless tram |
| The River and the Tunnels | Fifty-one miles of concrete nobody can see into, and thousands more miles of dark underneath it |