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Lacroseth City
Eva and Miko found themselves cruising high above the city, which the Justicars referred to as Lacroseth, the capital of Taloren Prime, and of the Drogar Imperium as a whole. Their EyeCasts hovered nearby as they looked at the sights all around.
They rode in a relatively common transport gondola. Similar to the Federation’s van-like hoppers, the gondola was the standard in hover transport in Drogar society. Unlike the hoppers, the gondolas were essentially simple platforms with a control deck in the center, and capped by a transparent dome.
It pretty much mirrored the huge domed city of Lacroseth itself, though far smaller in size.
In comparison, the city was incredibly wide. Every city on Taloren Prime was exactly 200 kilometers in diameter, and each one was filled with roughly half a billion people. From wha
CeritusOrbisInterestingly, a democracy needs to be tolerant of voices that are critical of it. What’s not so good is when those few voices start to subvert the rule of majority.
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