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===== Decaying Village — Life at the Edge =====
Not ''all'' of the buildings on the outside of Karteria's barrier are uninhabited. There remain small pockets of people determined to survive in an increasingly hostile (to humanity) landscape. The primary collection of these attempted settlers live Southwest of the city.

Their reasons for being there are varied. Some are conspiracy theorists wary of Patho-Gen and the Council. Some don't think the radiation is as bad as people say, and that clean living and measured exposure will enable them to endure it. Others ''can't'' consistently find a place to stay within Karteria, and shelter here, hoping to survive until their fortunes improve. And there's some few that just... didn't want to leave the lands they grew up in.

Officially outside of Karteria's jurisdiction, they are also outside of its laws, protections, and punishments. While these "defectors" receive no consistent help from inside the city, there have been some attempts made from both Patho-Gen and the Augmented to improve their living conditions. But it remains an uncomfortable, difficult time out there, a tangible look at what it's like to try and survive as a human outside the Karterian barrier.