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The space-city headquarters of Halo Group — Cheng Xin's corporate empire and Wade's secret lightspeed shipyard on the rim of the Bunker World.
Halo City is the operational heart of Halo Group, the corporation that owns DX3906 and most of the off-Earth trade. By the Bunker Era it is one of the largest civilian space cities in the Jovian shadow. Wade, who runs it for Cheng Xin in her absence, uses its hidden engineering decks to develop the first working curvature-propulsion drive in defiance of the UN's lightspeed-ship ban. The city is comfortable, prosperous, and quietly criminal: half its workforce knows what the lower bays contain and the other half does not want to.
A polished aluminum torus three kilometers across, lit from within by warm interior lights, set in the cold dark of the Jovian shadow. Spoke corridors lead from the rim to a central transit hub. Inside, plazas of synthetic grass under white sky-panels, terraced offices, and at the lower levels the engineering bays where the curvature-drive prototypes hide. Ships dock at the hub; small craft glide between adjoining city-ring cousins.