=Titania= 
**Allegiance:** Mixed ([[Anarchists|Anarchist]]/[[Brinkers|Brinker]]/Hypercorp)
**Primary Languages:** English, Mandarin, Russian
**Population:** 10,000
The largest of the Uranian moons at 1,600 kilometers in diameter, Titania is most notable for an impressively long canyon and a population that is able to think outside the box.
==Messina Chasma== 
Starting with absolutely nothing, the people of Titania (who locally calls themselves Titaniots to distinguish from the technosocialist Titanians) built Messina Chasma into one of the few genuine tourist destinations beyond the orbit of Saturn. Originally catering to younger anarchists and [[Extropians]] seeking a thrill, the mesh clips of amazing jumps into the chasma went viral a few years ago, prompting media and sports hypercorps to get in on the action. The canyon gives the illusion of danger around which the Xtreme sports industry is built—without the actual danger. Titania’s low surface gravity (.04 g) lowers the potential energy available to X-athletes—as well as the potential damage.
Especially popular is bridge-diving off the Cross-Rift Suspension. Divers drop off the bridge, accelerating at a mere 0.38 meters per second. The acceleration is slow, but it’s a long way down—fully half a kilometer. By the end of the 51-second drop, the divers are falling at nearly 70 kph—and then they’re pulled back up by the elasticity in the carbon ﬁber cables tied to their ankles. It’s one hell of a ride.
It’s not all camaraderie and good times, however. The increasing presence of media crews, inner system tourists, X-athletes, and hypercorp representatives is creating friction with the local autonomists. For the most part, this conﬂict has remained in the realm of the occasional drunken brawl and shouted insults. The local collectives would prefer the hypercorps not be on Titania, but as long as they’re not actively hostile, they’re welcome to do as they want. Most of the problems have come from X-athletes trying to market their bad boy/girl reputation by going after the Consortium’s favorite scapegoats, the anarchists, to show how badass they are. The clips where they get their bad asses handed back to them by their intended targets are just as popular in anarchist feeds.
===Sidebar: Xtreme=== 
Fast. Dangerous. On the edge.
There’s one name in Xtreme sports that says it all.
Messina Chasma.
1,500 kilometers long, the chasm stretches across Titania’s ugly, gray face like a scar. Every last centimeter of it is a mind-blowing experience unlike anything else in the solar system. Skate across frozen ammonia polished to a nearly frictionless sheen in Lake Emma, a three-klick impact crater transected by the valley. Go diving off the Cross-Rift Suspension, where you’ll drop a half kilometer into the dark. Upload into one of our superconducting sled bots and hurtle down a hundred kilometers of the High Valley Run. Scale the cliff face at Eaton Wall, one of the most difﬁcult technical climbs this side of Valles Marineris. Come visit Messina Chasma for the thrill of your life.*
Contact the Titania Travel Bureau for further details
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*Free resleeving services provided with every package. Sorry, no morphs can be accepted without a working cortical stack.
===Crossing=== 
Like the Xtreme sports attractions, most of Titania’s population hugs the edge of the chasma. The largest city is Crossing, with a population of nearly 2,000 souls. Crossing is the site of the Cross-Rift Suspension, a massive bridge ﬁve kilometers long that links the eastern and western sides of the chasma. The polymer composite bridge is painted a bright canary yellow, which makes it a stunning sight when Uranus is rising in the background. Crossing is the autonomist city that ﬁrst popularized bridge diving, and most of the pioneers of the sport still reside here. Offworlders who are willing to abide by Crossing’s collectivist work ethic, which means pitching in where needed, and who have a good reputation with autonomists are welcome in the city.
===Lyod=== 
Lyod anchors the northern end of the chasma and is responsible for the production of most of the moon’s land crawlers. Populated primarily by resleeved infomorphs who ﬂed a dying Russia during the Fall, Lyod is one of the few remaining centers of Orthodox Christianity in the transhuman world. Currently Lyod ﬁnds itself in control of the Titaniot land transportation market, a position threatened by an anarchist plan to build a maglev line that runs a third of the length of the canyon. The residents of Lyod are more brinker in their mentality than autonomist, and inner system types prefer their transitional economy to the anarchist zones. [[Nimbus]] operates a small egocasting and resleeving facility here that most of the hypercorps use when they need to get someone to Titania.
===Xue=== 
Xue is an anarchist town a hundred kilometers west of Crossing whose principal business is the spaceport. It’s also home to several industrial fabbers and has the largest resleeving facility on the moon. Xue is smaller than either Lyod or Crossing, but is the fastest-growing population center along the chasma, since most anyone who needs anything beyond basic supplies on Titania has to come through the town.
===Lake Emma=== 
[[Experia]] and a few other media corps have branches out at Lake Emma, where they broadcast all the moon’s Xtreme sports. It’s a sweetheart deal for the hypercorps since the anarchists aren’t interested in monetizing the sport. Of course, their signals are immediately pirated and rebroadcast to any hab that wants it outside the inner system, so most curious parties are able to indulge anyway. Not all of the autonomists are too keen on this, though, since these broadcasts allow the corps to hype Titania throughout the solar system, boosting the moon’s tourist trade and drawing unwelcome inner system interest.
===The Vory=== 
Behind the scenes lurks another presence on Titania. A Russian Vory mob outﬁt, one of the few not absorbed into the [[Night Cartel]], operates out of Lyod, skimming its share of the proﬁts that spill into the canyon. Calling themselves the Brotherhood Without Emotions, they’ve tried repeatedly to expand their inﬂuence but have been staunchly opposed by the anarchist communities. They have recently started providing support for some of the hypercorp operations, investing in good will that they hope to leverage in the long term to consolidate a hold over the moon. The Brotherhood is a canny investor, plowing its proﬁts into businesses that are likely to be winners and using its muscle and political connections to force open still more opportunities.
==Ursula== 
Ursula is a large crater near Titania’s south pole. It’s surrounded by smooth plains, except where its cut by the Belmont Chasma. The main crater is 135 klicks across, but there is a circular pit near its center that has a diameter of 20 kilometers.
The people of Titania awoke one morning to ﬁnd heavy thermal plumes emanating from Ursula’s central pit. The residents of Ursula have had almost no contact with their neighbors on the chasma, which makes the rest of Titania suspicious.
Firewall hasn’t done much better at piercing the mystery. We’ve learned that the Ursula group is a brinker apocalyptic cult that calls itself Messiah’s Children. The cult is secretive and hostile to outsiders, using home-cooked genetic modifications and psychosurgery to maintain a closeknit community.
I’ve been able to track long-haul automated ships coming and going from the base. At least one of these ships seems to been carrying living cargo, leading some to hypothesize that Ursula is a waystation on some kind of cult underground railroad. That still doesn’t explain what they’re doing below the surface, though. Wild rumors circulate that they found another gate, but it seems unlikely that there would be two gates in such close proximity. There’s a raging debate going on in the anarchist communities about how to deal with them. Most favor leaving them alone, but a few are seriously concerned they may pose a risk to the rest of the moon and may also be keeping some residents against their will.
Regardless Firewall, and the locals, would love to know more about just what they hell they’re doing in there. Anyone who could get in and out with the data would rack up some major favors.

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