Center System
The only region where enhancement zone weapons should function, a rule the resistance has quietly broken.
Story so far
Enhancement zone guns and beams are highly regulated, high-energy weapons that would normally only work in the center system. They are expensive, take up space, and absolutely cannot be used outside it, which is why not even Syndicate Security Corvettes bother carrying them.
Porthus had them installed on the Homecoming Queen anyway and predicted the Enhancement Zone suits would work too. In Earth orbit — far from the center system — every one of those systems now reads green, quietly overturning the assumption that made them safe to ignore.
Role
The regulatory heart of Syndicate space, whose weapons restrictions have just been broken elsewhere.
Relationships
Sources — 6 recorded facts, by chapter
- A bloated, comatose system fed on harvested human souls so its citizens can live unnaturally long lives.
- The vast viewing audience of the dungeon broadcast, whose attention Everly briefly won on her tower climb.
- The galaxy's core system that Formidable fears will be infected by the current AI's contagious insanity.
- The galaxy's hub, which the Apothecary wants shut down and from which the Pacifist Network intends to flee.
- The system whose AI is also known as the Eulogist, per Zev's mid-battle revelation to Carl.
- The only region where enhancement zone weapons should function, a rule the resistance has quietly broken.