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Member States
Seven-city alliance Luminex leads
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CATEGORY · 03
Compute First
UNITED CITY-STATES DATA CENTER
— The cyber-zone''s highest temple
An alliance of seven city-states—the order of the cyber-zone. On the surface a data center; at its core a dynasty. It ranks the world by compute, bleeds it through leagues, and dangles immortality as the final carrot.
KEY FIGURES
7
Member States
Seven-city alliance Luminex leads
10
Power Seats
Ten elites command force Ninth vanished, tenth empty
7
CRV Tiers
E·D·C·B·A·S·SS Seven ranks
∞
Compute = Life
Geometric pricing The immortality runway
DUAL IDENTITY
United City-States Data Center
A real political-economic-compute alliance of seven city-states. It runs leagues, sets tiers, allocates compute, collects taxes, and mobilizes mecha legions.
Think: UN + central bank + top esports league + half an Olympic committee.
CITY COUNCIL
Luminex · Capital
UNITED CITY-STATES DATA CENTER
Stonehold
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Industrial arsenal core
Verdant Marsh
⭐⭐⭐
Bio-engineering output
Pyrocore
⭐⭐⭐
Forging & heavy gear
Everwinter
⭐⭐⭐
Sky fleet · mobile force
Mistvale
⭐⭐
Edge member · dissent
Chaos Realm
⭐
Semi-detached · controlled chaos
LEAGUE MECHANISM
The cyber-zone''s highest arena. Pilots drive competitors to kill; winners legally inherit years of compute from losers'' cores via "spoils quota". Honor is packaging— the bet is lifespan.
Bind core, enter CRV rating
Match within same CRV tier
System decides; loser core reclaimed
UCDC values algorithm, assigns to winner
Winner gains N years; loser…
Winner rises; can challenge higher
⚠ The league''s essence: make the bottom consume each other; compute always flows upward. UCDC does not stop it—because they designed it.
CRV SYSTEM
E
Pop 60%
Extend 1yr+Fresh entrants
D
Pop 22%
Extend 3yr+Barely able to gamble once
C
Pop 10%
Extend 10yr+First hurdle to rise
B
Pop 5%
Extend 30yr+League regulars
A
Pop 2%
Extend 100yr+City-state elites
S
Pop 0.9%
Extend 200yr+Threshold to myth
SS
Pop 0.1%
Almost unreachableBeyond myth— Ten Elites'' domain
Low: mud phase · Mid: competition · High: myth phase
CRV = Core Resonance Value. UCDC''s official ruler for ranking the world. In Rust Abyss they trust "pulse-listening" instead—reading souls left in cores.
TEN SEATS OF POWER
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Fallen—never spoken of officially. Her story was scrubbed from every public archive.
COMPUTE = LIFE
Actual lifespan = natural lifespan + compute-extended lifespan
UCDC's ultimate weapon—immortality isn't a reward, it's a carrot you never reach
| Stage | Compute cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 extension | 1 unit | Almost everyone can afford it |
| Year 10 extension | 10 units | Middle class starts to strain |
| Year 50 extension | 1,000 units | Even elites must hoard furiously |
| Year 100 extension | Astronomical | No one has truly achieved immortality |
This is UCDC's ultimate weapon—immortality isn't a reward, it's a carrot you never reach. The harder you chase, the more you work for them.
Compute Supremacists
One of five factions · UCDC orthodoxy.
Competitors are tools and property; souls are algorithms emergent at sufficient compute.
Creed: "Compute is truth. All can be calculated; the incalculable does not exist."
The same UCDC, two identities in parallel. Politically it is the "Alliance"; ideologically it is a "Faction". Every debate about UCDC starts with which layer you mean.
HEADQUARTERS
Luminex · Light Dome →
Neumann Syndicate + UCDC Council + Ten Elites
"Compute is truth. All can be calculated; the incalculable does not exist."
Seven-state delegates Major decisions
Algorithm research CRV standards
Deterrence by force Seat is real power
Allocation League pools · tax policy
Vacant fifteen years. Rule: whoever meets UCDC's bar may inherit. Lin Mo's arc points here.
「A seat is real power. Holding one welds your lifespan to that chair.」