City Eighteen

City Eighteen - located in Odense, Denmark - is a glimmering beacon of loyalty and modernism under Our Benefactors. Originally built as a standardised residential-industrial city in the early days of the occupation, the birth of City Thirty-Five has since bolstered the local state to new heights. Eighteen now acts as a hub for quarternary industries, bureaucracy, and agency institutes, with a strong loyalist culture being deep-set into the populace living there.

Eighteen is undoubtedly now twinned with City Thirty-Five - although this burdensome co-dependence between cities is often frowned upon in the Global Union Administration for risk of a dangerous downwards spiral, heavy support from many within reach of the Government's individual ministries has lead to the continuation of this trend; the proximity to a mass-industrial hub and distinct lack of atmospheric pollution (due to strong Westerly winds keeping most pollution blowing towards the East) has offered a unique opportunity for City Eighteen's administration to prop itself up as a bastion for high-end, delicate production and quarternary industry.

One of Eighteen's most prominent features internally is their focus on synthetic advancement and repair - with many of the synths present in the original invasion force now re-located off-world, it has fallen on the laboratories within the city to maintain and repair complicated synthetic armaments, and study the combination of the biological and the mechanical for future endeavours. Rumours - long since echoing out from the quixotic homes of the elite - suggest that current experiments involve bio mechanical limb replacements, body modifications, and completely separate 'host-bodies' being ever advanced upon, all supported from the heavy industry from her twin, Thirty-Five.

As for loyalist culture, the City seeks to exude even that of City Thirty-Eight's contemporaries and hopes to one day rival City Twenty-Four. With the local authorities focusing on relative luxury and intellectual pursuits, it has become an ideal place to be relocated to for many hopeful loyalists around Occupied Europe - it already houses significant branch offices for many of the Union Government's divisions, such as the Material Provision Division and City Infrastructure Coordination. Echoes of internal corruption bounce around the walls of the glimmering city but are quick to be silenced by the shadowy clutches of the local authority.

For now, the City marches forever forwards - cementing the North of the Sector as a bulwark for the Combine, and mainstay for much of the gourmand desires of the bureaucratic class. The only supposed brakes would seem to be any direct intervention by those beyond the administration, or the untimely downfall of the City's strangled twin.