=Catal Hayuk= 
**Station Type:** [[O'Neill Cylinders|O’Neill Cylinder]]
**Allegiance:** Independent (Brinker)
**Primary Languages:** Kurdish, Turkish
**Population:** 3,500
Not everyone wants to live awash in the roaring cascade of the now and, even for those who do, getting away from it can be therapeutic. A way out is offered by recreationist preserves like Catal Hayuk, a neolithic settlement built in an O’Neill cylinder. Aside from the technology needed to maintain the hab itself, Catal Hayuk offers a way of life identical to that lived by prehistoric humans over 10,000 years ago in Anatolia.
Unlike simulspace simulations and temporary regression retreats, though, this adoption of ancient ways is taken to the extreme. The women give live birth to children, sometimes dying in the process. Men engage in rites of passage that can be equally deadly. The population is sleeved in ﬂat morphs, and those who want to join even undergo psychosurgery intended to prevent them from contaminating the primitive society with contemporary knowledge or memes.
Caring for these voluntary primitives is Merat, an AGI whose motives in sponsoring this habitat are hotly debated. Merat speaks about Catal Hayuk as both a retreat for those unable to adjust to modern life (many of the population are reinstanced) and as a social experiment. It’s the latter that gets some hackles up, even though those who join the colony do so voluntarily.

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