**First Appearance:** #book8 A wretched hive of scum and villainy where bad guys congregate. A literal floating city in the atmosphere of a venus-like planet with pools of sulfur and winds so hot they boil lead, but not everywhere. It has an atmosphere with a higher oxygen content, so that even humans can get by with a simple rebreather rig. Established about 200 years ago, as an experimental platform on the closest candidate planet to known space. Outside of all jurisdictions.