The Ticker Crown
The district's moving signature. It starts spinning at 06:00, and by 22:00 the signage is louder than the people.
Market Row
Stalls run three storeys up a spiral ramp inside a converted silo, under a ticker crown you can read from blocks away.
The silo
Mapped The streets and the Loop station are laid out in the build. The market screen is a preview and trading is the game's design.
- Kind
- Safe hub
- Who runs it
- Nominally nobody. All three factions keep vendor fronts, and the Counting House clears the floor
- Combat
- None
- Landmark
- Exchange Tower and the Ticker Crown
- Loop station
- A lit station
- Sound
- Ticker clatter and vendor barks
The Exchange Tower was a grain silo and never stopped being vertical. The market fills its spiral ramp, and the Ticker Crown spins on top.
It is nominally neutral. All three factions run vendor fronts on the ramp. The clearing floor under the ramp belongs to the Counting House, a banking guild older than the registry. Trade here goes through the market in Market Row.
The silo shaft is no-fly, so the ramp stays a climb. The house rule is to fly the silo's skin, up the Ticker Draft on the outside face, and walk its throat. The north quarter has sat in permanent shade since 2081, and the rents reflect it.
Up the ramp
The Counting House floor
The clearing floor under the ramp. The Counting House is a pre-Seal banking guild, and it keeps its own arbitration room for commercial disputes that are too big for anywhere else. Its Board has never shown a face.
Scar Plaza
A Legend lost control three blocks from the Tower and ended the Kindling, as the Turn tells it. The pavement still does not sit quite flat there, no matter how many times it is repaved. An obelisk stands in the plaza, and people leave things at it that they do not explain.
Handspan
The direct-trade ring under the ramp's second turn. Deals are done by handshake in front of a Counting House witness, because a witness is cheaper than escrow.
The shade market
In the north quarter's permanent shade, and it sells lamps.
The Ration Queue
A mural in a service alley beside the plaza, and the only one inside the safe core. It survived because it flatters nobody and names no one. See the murals.
Three peaks a day
Which turn of the ramp a stall is on says what its owner can afford. There are three trading peaks in a day, and the middle one is when the crews from the Fringe come in to sell.
Everyone's welcome. Everyone pays five percent.
On the walls
Settlement is five percent. Processing is applied at settlement.
FIVE PERCENT OF WHAT
WE PAY RENT ON A SHADOW
Nothing painted.
Things left.
Buying and selling
Partly built The market screen shows your creds and items and previews listings. Buying and selling are the game's design.
Players are meant to trade here for creds, with a cut taken at settlement, and to make direct trades with escrow. A crew recruitment wall stands by the ramp. See currencies for the money and crews for the crews.
On the ramp
- A Municipals sergeant, who will tell you that the moment a scanner chirps a case stops being his, and that until then it is a stolen bike.
- A listing broker on the ramp, who sees a Legend as a spread to be quoted.
- Vendors from all three factions work the same ramp, a few stalls apart.