Floating cities, Mu & Apolyta

Whoa. I have been SUCH a slacker. Over on Tumblr all I've been doing is reblogs about important things (a petition for DC Comics to hire more women, talking about slushpile publication in the comics industry versus standard publishing) and then lots of bemoaning over my lack of caffeine. The good news is - I have had caffeine this morning!

And, because of the caffeine (and because I am properly ashamed that I'm being completely unproductive on this blog) I figured I'd throw you guys a bone.

So, in my world there are floating cities, both in the sky and in the ocean. Obviously, since 90% of the world's land mass has kind of....gotten eaten by the oceans. :D Had to find a place to put all these people. Granted, the population of the 1960s got cut big time. Like, 2/3s of the population just DIED horribly when the world went boom. Because I'm awesome like that. Mass murder for everyone! ....okay, maybe the caffeine really hasn't hit much.

ANYWAY. Floating cities.

I saw this in the paper last summer, I think, and I loved the idea. So I kind of go off of the above picture and mesh it with other ideas about cities on the ocean. My floating cities also hook up into the transatlantic train system I've got set up. :) Now everyone is seeing where the "science" aspect of my superhero/fantasy/whatever-the-heck-this-thing-is novel. I'll probably end up making a post at some point about all the tech that goes on in my world. But, for the moment, you shall all have to be satiated with floating cities.

Now, Mu is an important city for many reasons, least in part because of the Apolyta Complexes. And here are my notes on the matter:

APOLYTA || MU

Apolyta Facilities include:

• Apolyta Center for Behavioural Research (staff: 300; patients: ~600)
• Apolyta National Prison (inmates: 3000)
• Helicon Lee Aployta Group Home (~1500 children)

~5600 people in the Apolyta Complex
~6000 people in Mu besides Apolyta residents

Mu is the hub of cutting edge medical research and technology. This is where new cures are being developed and where the best of the best are. Most of the people who reside on Mu are doctors, nurses, or other medical staff and their families. There is patient housing close to the other medical facilities. Apolyta is secluded and requires different authorization codes to access it. Mu is an independent city, not run by any one nation. It does, however, allow for prison overflow to be located in the city.

Mu Station is the transatlantic train stop for the city. It is one of the least guarded places in the city.



Apolyta is where Doctor Walter Meechum operates and where Dean and his sister were taken after their mother died. There's a lot of darkness in Dean that's because of Apolyta and Meechum. Meechum himself scares the crap out of me and I try to avoid writing him. Since I'm spotlighting him September 2sd, the rest of you will find out why. I am tempted to go ahead and blow the whole thing by introducing everyone to Dean early, but we'll see. I might have to do it around the same time period as Meechum.

For the moment, content yourselves with Apolyta and consider all the ominous things that could be going on in a Behavioural Research Center (because trust me, it's not a bunch of psych majors crowding around a tank). Especially when it's funded/run by a shadow-y organization made up of very unhappy Homo sapiens.