Beyond Series Guide
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BETA VERSION
This is the beta version of the BEYOND SERIES guide. Sector descriptions are still being added and some character details are being fleshed out. It’s very a much a work in progress!
Welcome to the new and soon to be even more improved guide to the people and places of the BEYOND series! This page serves as an overview of locations and character biographies. To get more information about a person or place, click through to their individual page. All character biographies include spoilers through the end of Beyond Ecstasy (Book #8).
Sector Four
Sector Four is the heart of the Beyond series and home to the O’Kanes. Its’ economy relies heavily on the skills of crafters who barter with one another and depend on the patronage of Eden’s store owners–who are only too happy to snatch up handmade goods to sell at an incredible markup to the residents of Eden.
The social heart of the sector is the Broken Circle, the front for Dallas O’Kane’s bootlegging empire. By now the O’Kanes own four square blocks around the bar, including living quarters for the gang and several warehouses–one of which houses Sector Four’s hottest event: Fight Night.
Though Sector Four has always been dangerous–especially after dark–Dallas’s growing power has had a stabilizing influence on the sector. People under his protection are as close to safe as it gets in a post-apocalyptic world…and every day more people come under his protection.
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Eden
Eden is the city-of-the-future, built in a far different past. Originally conceived in the middle of the 21st century, Eden was supposed to be a way forward in a high-tech world that had begun to fray at the edges. It was designed by dreamers and funded by idealists, and was all but complete when solar flares destroyed the country’s power grid. Spared the devastation thanks to its own self-contained design, Eden was the only opportunity for a familiar life.
Unfortunately, the dreamers and idealists weren’t prepared to defend themselves against the men with the guns.
Today, Eden operates under rigid rules of morality meant to preserve power–and resources–in the hands of a few. But a seedy, hypocritical darkness lurks under the Council’s corruption. Eden is a city that’s only shiny on the surface–but the surface sure does shine.
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Sector One
Sector One is ruled by Gideon Rios, grandson of Fernando Rios. Fernando Rios was not just the original ruler, but also the founder–and prophet–of the dominant religion in the sector. His belief system rejected the harsh and sterile dogma of Eden in favor of passionate and unwavering love–spiritual, emotional and physical.
The strength of his convictions gathered him a devoted following, but his belief in his own infallibility eventually lead to a violent civil war within the sector. Though the ideal of love triumphed in the end, the Rios family was torn apart in the process. Gideon rules the sector with a more tempered approach to his grandfather’s principles.
Group marriages are common within Sector One. Families combine to form small communes that specialize in various trades and, for the most part, make use of a barter system. As there’s always a demand within Eden for high-quality handcrafted goods, people in the sector trade extra wares to shops within Eden in exchange for supplies they don’t have access to outside the walls.
The sector is patrolled and policed by Gideon’s Riders, a group of trained fighters absolutely loyal to Gideon. Outside of enforcing peace, their primary goal is protecting and helping people who are suffering under the harsh conditions in the sectors. Sector One is a close ally of Sector Four, in part because Gideon’s cousin is a member of Dallas O’Kane’s inner circle.
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Sector Two
Sector Two is by far the most affluent of the sectors, considered by some to be even more opulent than Eden itself. They serve as Eden’s intermediaries with other surviving cities, reaping the benefits of being the main trading hub–and shouldering the risks, as well. Savvy businessmen who can anticipate–or create–demand for the products they’ve managed to import live on lush estates where they’re waited on by retainers who are little more than indentured servants.
Trade might be the major industry, but the true power in Sector Two rests not with the businessmen, but with their companions. It’s tradition for each man in Two to acquire the services of a girl from one of the main training houses. Part hostess, part assistant, the women are trained openly as mistresses–and not-so-openly as spies.
The women who run the training houses of Sector Two know more about the dirty secrets seething beneath Eden and the Sectors than the entire Council and all the Sector Leaders combined. Their leader, Cerys, uses that knowledge ruthlessly, making her one of the most formidable power players in her world.
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Sector Three
When Eden and the sectors were originally designed, Sector Three was one of two sectors devoted to manufacturing. The original population agreed to work the factories in exchange for food, room and board, but watching the results of their labor flow toward the city while they struggled to survive on the crumbs took its toll.
Unfortunately, the city got wind of the rumblings of rebellion quickly. In response, they quietly, steadily shifted their essential products to factories in Sector Eight. Once Three had lost its leverage, Eden taught everyone in all of the sectors a swift, violent lesson in obedience: they firebombed Three.
Without a decent trade or a decent leader, Three spent decades being ruled by one petty criminal after another. Gangs of street orphans are depressingly common. Smuggling is a frequent career for the more enterprising.
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Sector Five
Without a leader as of Beyond Addiction.
Sector Five is one of the two sectors most vital to Eden’s continued survival. The factories and laboratories in the sector are responsible for the medical technology and medicine that keeps Eden’s citizens healthy–and the recreational pharmaceuticals that keep them docile.
Thanks to the fact that Sector Five was already constructed before the Flares, Eden hasn’t lost access to the many groundbreaking medical advances of the late 21st century. Common diseases are all but eradicated, and regeneration technology means most any illness can be cured–for a price. A very, very high price.
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Sector Six
Sector Six is dominated by farm land. Bordering the reservoir, it was designed by Eden’s original architects with carefully irrigated farm lands and self-sustaining farmhouses. Though there are food processing factories and storage warehouses close to the city walls, for the most part Sector Six is a patchwork of families working long hours to grow the food Eden needs to survive.
Patriarchs of each farm habitually take multiple wives–six or seven is not uncommon–and have as many children as possible to build up their workforce. It’s a hard life, completely off the grid, and many would say no better than working as an indentured servant in one of the communes.
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Sector Seven
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Sector Eight
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