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“Oh look, look! The tasteful architecture, the use of organic spaces and living materials, the open flowing water acting as both a civil utility and a means of humidifying the air. It's just like being in a forest canopy! It's so fine!” The first says.
“Not only that- but the Hegemony's social programs keeping the undesirables out! It's so fine to see beautiful, healthy, quiet people. Unlike that ghastly Consortium. Do you know we were invited to one of the finest restaurants in the Consortium, and they had the gall to just let anyone in if they could afford to pay the entrance fee. Oh <span class="mu-i">just</span> pay the fee to get in?! <span class="mu-i">Absurd</span>!”
<span class="mu-g">”I assure you, <span class="mu-i">all</span> of our citizens are desirable.”</span>
You have shown them around a carefully cordoned part of the city, with drones on the lookout for any sort of trickery or bad actors, both your own and the Aristocrats themselves. You don't doubt your own people in any way, but seeing what to the common onlooker look to be the Hazaar again so soon may be disturbing. Not that this entire city history is not equally disturbing.
“Fascinating! You've built this city not just for your primary species. The big green ones- the cattle?”
<span class="mu-g">”Yes. The Vetuckers are all a bit claustrophic, and not as vertically able as Jaxtians are, they have larger social spaces and rooms that can be built on the main fairways, reinforced for machines to support heavier weights then the light Jaxtian steps. Large plaza spaces allow one to see other citizens at work or relaxation so that one does not feel isolated; very important for such a communal species as they are.”</span>
“And what about the fish ones, the yellow species?”
<span class="mu-g">”This was their homeworld once. The entire city is underwater, constantly filtered for algaes to help provide biomass for the farms and deuterium to power its fusion generators. While the city is a bit too deep for them to swim openly, much of the water from above is filtered through the city's internal canal system, acting as a useful shortcut for them.”</span>
“This live in such strange places.”
<span class="mu-g">”They are the opposite of the Vetuckers, more agrophobic. So instead, we give smaller passages and rooms built into the city's support structure as useful spaces for them. Once marked as storage rooms and utility closets have become the Swall's new useful hideaways.”</span>
“How strange! It's almost like the city was designed for all three of your Hegemony's species! But I thought those two were extinct while it was being built. How strange.”
<span class="mu-g">”Yes... it is quite strange.”</span>
“It's like a city built for ghosts. I love that! The City of Ghosts! Haha, how fun!”
<span class="mu-g">”...And now, I'd like you to meet the city's foremost designer himself. Yino Val!”</span>
