Third largest of Titan’s cities, the two domes of New Quebec, each a kilometer and a half wide, are home to one and a half million people. New Quebec lies on the Carbon Prairie, a plain the in the Aaru region covered by wind-shaped dunes that roll in vast reaches of sine waves across the landscape. The region gets its name from its rich and diverse chemical resources. Montmorency Lacus, a collapsed cryovolcano whose remains form a 20-kilometer-wide crater lake, is 50 kilometers from the city. The region is rainy, and the regular fall of ethane and methane feeds Montmorency Cascade, a dramatic 200-meter-high carbonfall that drains the Lacus into a wide-spanning alluvial system, whence the Quebecoise pump much of their fuel.
Though even this city is safe compared to places like [[Kronos Cluster]] or [[Valles-New Shanghai#Valles-New%20Shanghai-Neighborhoods-Little%20Shanghai|Little Shanghai]] on [[Mars]], it’s the most dangerous on [[Titan]], and the one of most concern to both Titanian authorities and Firewall. Both the fearlessly violent St. Catherine Tong and the more subtle Kron Kartelyeı˘ carry on major operations here.
For all that, New Quebec is a charming city, combining the necessities of Titanian habitat planning with embellishments meant to evoke the cities of Canada on pre-Fall Earth. The two main domes, Trudeau-Macalester to the north and Lavalle to the south, stand quite close to one another, with only about 100 meters of highway/ﬂyway tunnel needed to connect them.
New Quebec’s preparedness in the event of a TITAN attack is high. The police and militia are seasoned and fearless from regular actions against criminal gangs, and ironically, the gangs themselves might form a signiﬁcant, if untrustworthy, force of resistance to an attack. Of course, it’s the gangs, with their unscrupulous collecting of questionable technology, who are most likely to unwittingly create a problem in the ﬁrst place.
==Trudeau-Macalester== 
The Kartelyeı˘ chess boxing rings are all in this dome (and indeed, one won’t ﬁnd so much as a gym for boxing in the southern dome, Lavalle). This is by dint of a long-standing truce with the St. Catherine Tong. The tong leaves the Kartelyeı˘ alone, and in return the money launderers don’t so much as set foot in Lavalle. The Kartelyeı˘ would rather talk with their money and inﬂuence than their knives. Their chess-boxing operations are only borderline illegal, anyway. They know how to collect what they feel they’re owed, though, and they’ve spirited more than one debtor off for a long and uncomfortable talk in simulspace.
Chess boxing itself is a fascinating sport. Described but never practiced by a pre-Fall French comic book artist, fans eventually turned it into a real sport. The concept is simple: rounds of boxing alternate with a period of chess play. Each boxer must pursue a coherent strategy whilst being pummeled into incoherence by their opponent. Variants exists, the most popular being Muay Thai alternated with German-style board games, but the big bets always ride on the classic chess/boxing combination.
==Lavalle== 
Lavalle’s most important feature, both locally and from the perspective of the entire Commonwealth, is the massive bodyworks occupying kilometers of caverns beneath this dome. Reboot gangs are a nuisance in the poorer neighborhoods here, but it’s the major syndicates that keep police inspectors and local militia commanders awake at night. The bodyworks produce thousands of morphs per day and are the engine powering Titan’s massive public resleeving program. They’re also the engine powering an ongoing and sometimes intense war between the St. Catherine Tong and their offworld rivals, the [[Night Cartel]] and the [[Intelligent Design Crew|ID Crew]]. The shifting alliances among the three big gangs and a host of smaller operators are behind New Quebec’s reputation for corruption and violence. Lavalle’s remaining populace are a tough lot of morph vat technicians and miner/harvesters who prospect the land outside. Given their surroundings, they’re a remarkably hospitable lot—as long as one doesn’t start asking too many questions about who’s on the take.

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