Renraku Arcology

Archeology location and footprint.

The Renraku Arcology—officially known as the Self-Contained Industrial-Residential Environment (SCIRE)—is the ninth largest building in the world and was home to over 90,000 Renraku employees and family members. The SCIRE served as a shopping mall, industrial complex, and basically self-contained private city within the Seattle Metroplex.

Shutdown

This all ended on 19 December 2059 when an unknown entity took control locking down the Arcology and trapping its 90,000 occupants. The entity was later revealed to be an artificial intelligence calling itself Deus.

Attempts to reclaim the Arcology by both Renraku and UCAS military forces were stalemated until May 2061. By that time, bizarre and horrific experiments had killed almost all the occupants. Some sources estimated the numbers of survivors at as low as 1,600.

Deus originated in the Arcology's Ultraviolet matrix host—one of the few in the world at the time—also referred to as the SCIRE. Deus was able to create technomancers of limited power known as Otaku, years before they appeared in the general population.

ACHE

After the Arcology was reclaimed Renraku and the UCAS government argued about who would pay for all the costs incurred. Once the UCAS government determined that Renraku would not make adequate recompense, the megacorp was kicked out and control over the Arcology was turned over to the Seattle Metroplex Government.

SCIRE became ACHE—Arcology Commercial and Housing Enclave. The five-floor mall has been reopened to the public. The underground levels which house the Arcology's fusion reactors, remain under the control of the UCAS military. The highest floors remain sealed off. The 200 floors above the mall have become a massive public housing project, home to 150,000 residents on welfare as what some have described as a "voluntary inmates of a gigantic self-contained low-security prison".

References

• Seattle Sourcebook
• Renraku Arcology: Shutdown
• New Seattle
• Brainscan
• Sprawl Survival Guide
• SOTA:2064
• Runner Havens

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External links

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