Port Redmark

Port Redmark, often called The Red Port, or simply Redport, is the 3rd most populous city in the Hybur spherae. It is found in the aforementioned spherae, located in the Orange System in the 4th orbit of it’s star. The city has an estimated 42 million residents, divided into 173 different districts, it was a seat of power for several famous states and is a cultural icon and an economic powerhouse in the region.

It was an outpost founded by Alsonnan colonists in M16 AC, gradually growing as it attracted the local inhabitants of the spherae and others outside. Becoming capital by the Alsonnan remnants, before being overthrown by the Scarlet Bloc and renamed into The Red Port, becoming capital to the PSC and the later, the Scarlet Confederacy.

Many arts and heritage are stored in its numerous galleries and museums, becoming a lesser known psedo-art capital of The Realms, it is featured as one of iconic cities in films, books, and other works.

History
Originally called Port Greymark, (The Grey Port), it was established by settlers of the Imperial Federation of Alsonna, after their 4th Conquest Wars. They built the first district of the city on the unamed dwarf planet, nothing much is left save for the materials the city is made of. The Grey Port grew in prominence and power in the Hybur spherae, becoming one of the many shining jewels of Alsion, when the 2nd Alsonnan Civil War broke out, Port Greymark became the last holdouts for the empire and for the next centuries it fell into corruption and decadance.

The situation became critical and Port Greymark was divided into civil war, factions called “Blocs” divided the city into six. The Grey Port became a den of violence and ruin as the populace culled eachother in desperation, disease, starvation, and thirst became a common staple in the city. Ultimately the Scarlet Bloc, composed of disgruntled workers and city guards took control of the city and established the People’s Council.

The city was renamed into Port Redmark, in victory of the Scarlet Bloc. The new city council sought to rebuild their home and establish a new law that ensures everyone is treated equally. The city soon became the capital of the People’s Stellar Council, one of the great factions powerful enough to stand on their own, responsible for the Great Scarlet Rebellion, reforming into the Scarlet Confederacy and a participant in the 4th Great Alliance War, on their own side.

When they had another civil war, the people of the city themselves deposed Primier Tristok Graalis from power. Ending the Scarlet Confederacy and existing as a city-state with communal policies, they had a period of isolation after the fall but are slowly reopening their world gates.

They are currently one of the members of the Tradeline League.

Government
It is based on the Helix-Socialist system, structured as a city electorate, it represented by the workers’ table, the soldiers’ table, and the traders’ table. The 3 tables represent the city’s different areas of interest, they decide implementing and changing policies through debate and scientific equations, inherited by their technocratic ancestors.

Society & Culture
Boxed Chicken Fill is a staple dish in the city, it has gone through different variations due to the city’s exposure to many different cultures.

People in the city live contently, usually living in families of five, the father, mother, and three children. Most of the big businesses are owned or partially owned by the state, but the small business are usually left alone. Foreign businesses are kept on a tight leash, so that the local businesses have nothing to worry about, so things are different when you are inside.

Their way of thinking is usually of industriousness and the reward that they reap, but they usually do it with logic and precision with a strict emphasis on contentment as striving for more will bring them all to ruin in the end.

As such, they are often generous, sharing to others who are in desperate need in things they don’t need. Though they always had a sense of societal superiority which often leads to conflicts and misunderstandings, seeing the outside world as full of selfish and foolhardy individuals.

Landmarks
Lowmouth Bridge is the city’s signature landmark, a symbol representing friendship between two different places to meet on common ground and walk to each others’ future together.