Peoples Home
Repopulated after defeat, People's Home follows the Tempest under Stover occupation while Captain Perkins turns Drummer's former command into her lifelong prison.
Story so far
People's Home survives Leuctra only after dropping its reactor core and surrendering. Most evacuated residents return, though some scatter into Belt hiding places. The Laconian destroyer Stover arrives as an escort whose actual purpose is occupation. Captain Rowman Perkins assumes absolute authority with power-armored Marines while treating the void city's people and former president with measured courtesy.
Drummer remains in comfortable house arrest aboard the city, permitted her rooms, exercise, food, music, and censored files but no unsupervised communication. Three months later, repaired enough to travel, People's Home follows the Heart of the Tempest to TSL-5 like a subordinate waiting to bow. It remains populated and recognizable, but its political autonomy and union command function are gone.
Appearance
A vast damaged Belter void city again filled with many returning residents, trailing a Laconian flagship under occupation with repaired sections, guarded corridors, and censored executive quarters.
Role
People's Home is the surviving union capital converted into an occupied population center and visible trophy of Laconian authority.
Relationships
Sources — 6 recorded facts, by chapter
- The first and largest Belter void city is a gravity-well-free capital whose shifting drum carries Drummer's scattered presidential household.
- People's Home burns toward the coalition as a city stripped by war into a delivery system for guns, missiles, and Drummer's public command.
- People's Home becomes the delayed command center for a battle already over, translating telescopy and death into the intelligence for another defense.
- Emptied of civilians, People's Home becomes Drummer's battleship and command anchor at Leuctra, firing until the surviving Tempest answers with missiles.
- Rail strikes tear through People's Home beside its medical decks and engineering spaces, forcing a core drop before Drummer surrenders from its wounded command center.
- Repopulated after defeat, People's Home follows the Tempest under Stover occupation while Captain Perkins turns Drummer's former command into her lifelong prison.