Burbs
Most cities have an exterior portion called the Burbs.
The Burbs are often vast areas around the outside of a
city filled with people who want to become Coalition
citizens, or are not allowed. There are many, many
people, human and non-human, some are psychic, some are
mutants, others d-bees, BUT if at all possible there are no
magic users. Even the Burbs are kept as clean as
possible from the filth of those who use magic and align
themselves with forces of evil.
The Burbs are patrolled
by the Psi-Stalkers and their DogPacks. They sniff out
magic users, illegal psychics, and monsters. There is
only a small chance of avoiding detection if the Burbs are
entered legally. Only someone extremely careful can
pass through without being noticed, the only other option is
to enter somewhere that is not guarded or patrolled. It
is not very often that the outside of the Burbs is protected
by walls or anything.
Very often things such as monsters or demons attack the
Burbs destroying many. The Burbs are a first line of
defence filled with people who must defend themselves or die.
Often the Dogpacks will help, but this is not always
the case, they may be ordered to stay uninvolved or be ordered
to do something elsewhere. This makes the Burbs a
pretty transitory thing to some extent because crime runs
rampant as well, people get dissillusioned of becoming
Coalition citizens and just up and leave. People stream
into the Burbs usually faster than they leave. It can
be a very dangerous place.
In some of the Burbs there is a portion called the Visitor's
Corridor. The Visitor's Corridor is a place with many
business establishment, very much like a large trading post.
Even certain d-bees are allowed to enter into the
Corridor. Everyone entering the Corridor is checked by
a Psi-Stalker, and it is considered by these stalkers whether
or not that person should be allowed. Of course certain
races are automatically not allowed. Often people are
also checked on the way out. Policy states that all
mega-damage weapons, robots, and power armor be tagged and
taken into custody until the owner once again leave the Burbs.