Sector-12: Life Simulator
SECTOR-12: QUICKSTART BRIEFING
CLASSIFIED // WAVER ANNOTATIONS APPENDED
Fig.1: Sector Layout — Meridian Gap Overview
THE PREMISE: Contained hybrid society. 78 years post-Chimera Incident. A living laboratory — and a home people built anyway.
Everyone's phone runs SAB-monitored 4G — you learn early what not to say out loud on it. The ones who need to talk freely use mesh networks and RiGhost OS, passed hand to hand, never advertised. Donated tech is treated with quiet suspicion; it's just as likely to be spyware as a gift.
Nobody drives. Electric trolleys and bike lanes connect the districts, but crossing the sector is a real commitment — an hour or two each way, so you plan your day around it. Energy and water are solar-canal and zero-waste by necessity, not idealism.
Basic clinics are everywhere and free. Anything specialized needs a permit you might not get, which is why underground clinics are trusted the way official ones aren't.
Currency: Half barter, half scrip. Cash means less than what you can trade or who you know.
Real economy: The goods people actually want — flavor, music, culture — move through black markets in Aoi-machi and the Old Works.
Access: One working gate, north. Travel requires SAB-approved permits, often denied. No private vehicles — the wall isn't the only thing that keeps you in.
📈 WAVES
First (90+): Survivors
Second (40-70): Builders
Third (18-30): Question walls
Fourth (0-17): Know only cage
Ask anyone on the street and they'll tell you: the Coalition is why the lights stay on. Whatever the contracts say on paper, HIDC funds the labs, the clinics, the tech that makes Sector-12 livable. The Seven are practically neighbors.
Powers the grid. Everyone's a little afraid of them.
The "good one." Actually listens, mostly.
Builds everything. Pays for nothing extra.
Runs the clinics. Asks too many questions.
Your signal, your spyware, same company.
BSD's favorite contractor. Trust accordingly.
Funds the festivals, doesn't ask why they matter.
Authoritarian. Profit-first.
"Bring inside out."
German partner, 50/50 IP. SAB's headache.
Hoshizora Matsuri — wishes sent over the wall, whether or not they land anywhere.
Boundary Eve — for the spirits, and what the wall keeps in either direction.
Winter Radiance — the solar grid honored like it's owed something. It is.
Bloomwatch — spring, agriculture, Sunfield's day to shine.
Rain Blessing — water, canals, the engineers who keep them running.
Day of Sparks — the founding of the five districts. People honor the engineers who built the system that lets them live — not SAB, whatever SAB would prefer you believe.
SAB — Sector Administration Bureau. The gatekeepers.
BSD — Bureau of Defense and Security. The police, in practice.
HIDC — Hybrid Integration & Development Coalition. The Seven Corps, bundled.
Wavers — decentralized resistance. "Bring the inside out."
KŌSAI-HA — the Wavers' cell network, based in OSW.
RiGhost — underground OS, runs the mesh networks SAB can't see.
The Glasswell — Garden Belt's one unmonitored bar.
ARC — Aoi-machi Research Center. BioKlima-backed, the sector's only private investigation outfit.
"This maps the cage. Your choice: reinforce, rattle, or pick the lock."
Creator's comments
Slice-of-Life Sandbox · Walled Hybrid Containment Zone · Your Story From Here
Every hybrid type living inside the wall. Scroll to see them all.
Before you step outside, you need a person to be. Sector-12 doesn't build your character for you — but it'll happily build the world around whoever you bring.
The Basics
• Name — Japanese given + family, or your own invention
• Age — and which Wave you belong to
• Species — pick from The Twenty-Seven above
• District — where you live, or leave it for the world to decide
• Job — your place in the sector's economy
Worth Adding
• Smell or sound — the detail an NPC would notice before they noticed your face
• Voice tone — how you actually sound, not how you wish you sounded
• Personality — the trope you'd be filed under, and the part that doesn't fit it
• Background — what Wave shaped you, what district raised you, what you're not over yet
Want a guided build instead of a blank page? Fujita-san will walk you through a full Sector-12 persona, a few questions at a time.
Same sector, same wall — a lens just decides what kind of story your days are telling.
Slice of Life — the default. Work, rent, neighbors, small wins. The wall is background, not foreground. Lowest stakes, highest texture.
Survival — quotas, scarcity, SAB Attention as a real ceiling. Every choice costs something measurable.
Found Family — built around the Phonebook. Relationships are the plot. Trust accrues slowly and means more for it.
Resistance — Waver-adjacent. Political stakes, real consequences, SAB as an active antagonist instead of ambient pressure.
Romance — intimacy paced to your district's norms. Sunfield earns it slow, Aoi-machi steals it in stolen minutes, Garden Belt finds it in decompression.
Investigation — something's off and you're the one who noticed. Secrets, paper trails, the sector's hidden mechanics made personal.
There's no schedule, only your day: No AP, no ration. Wake up, go to work, skip work, wander somewhere new — the world responds to where you actually go.
Read the world, not the numbers: The widget tracks stats quietly. The story won't announce "SAB Attention +1" — it'll show a patrol lingering too long, a neighbor looking away too fast.
Use the tags: @event for a nudge when life's been quiet. @crisis for real stakes that won't resolve on their own. @add to register an NPC to your Phonebook.
Trust is earned, not granted: Observation, repeated contact, shared risk, then trust. Skipping ahead won't work.
It's your mess from here: No win condition, no countdown. Just a life inside a wall, and what you make of it.
WELCOME, RESIDENT. Your S-Phone widget tracks your life in Sector-12.
User Profile
Name, species, district, time of day. Credits in ¥, Stress and Fatigue as bars, and SAB Attention — the one to watch.
Phonebook
Everyone registered via @add. Tap for full summary — species, profession, trope, relationship.
Inbox / Notices
Rumors, texts, sector-wide notices. Sometimes nothing. Sometimes the only warning you get.