Soe-yun Terrace

Soe-yun Terrace is a housing project located in the Jorres District of the city of Dunia Mpya, Umoja's capital on the Reagansfall continent. It is a 120 floor skyscraper, designed for lower income families, and became a center of the Alterian Syndicate kingpin Hector Ricci.

History
The Soe-yun Terrace was established in 2467 by Mayor Xu Tai-ping in response to a recent economic recession in the city's burgeoning mineral refineries, due to Morian undercutting with the expansion of the Keldanis Shipping Guild. As such, many unskilled refinery worked on Umoja were left jobless. A massive project done of public works was done to ensure that a homelessness epidemic didn't break out in Dunia Mpya, resulting in supermassive skyscrapers filled with affordable housing and regulated rent prices. Soe-yun Terrace was one of these, named after one of the original Umojan astronauts, Soe-yun Nwe, heralding the start of the independent colonization of the surrounding systems.

When the tower was finally completed, it had reached near half capacity in a mere two months, an unexpected speed by even the most liberal estimates. As Umoja's stable economy in most sectors lead to a minimal amount of large scale crime in its past, the DMPD (Dunia Mpya Police Department) were grossly ill prepared for such an influx. With little resources to go around and not much to regulate them (and those few police ordered to patrol the Terrace usually bought out) crime inevitably rose. Lack of supplied food led to prices rising, and a series of riots broke out in the Terrace, and spilled out into the nearby neighborhoods around it.

Emergency action lead to a police crackdown on the initial riots, and a mass influx of foodstuffs to the Terrace, and a retraining effort sought to place unemployed refinery workers in new fields, but the fear of these riots had already driven out many of the people who lived around the Terrace, and its reputation more than anything invited criminal elements back to it. This even caught the eye of head criminal kingpins like Hector Ricci of the Alterian Syndicate, who bought out the top floors of the Terrace, and used it as a center of operations for his hab and turk smuggling operations. Ingenious methods of cooking, and some very well placed bribes, made the Terrace untouchable, and even those not involved in the drug trade welcomed the strange kind of order the Syndicate brought with it.

However, rumor has it that Ricci had uncovered something big and may be in deep trouble, as mercenary forces seem to be congregating near the top of the high rises. Umojan authorities are on high alert for whatever Ricci has planned, or for whatever he is preparing to fight off.