Location: Western Border – Transitional Zone, Forum Region
Time: 6:12 AM
Mist curled around the valley where scaffolding rose like skeletal fingers in the early dawn.
No formal architects.
No masterplan.
Yet a city was forming.
They called it Lumenis—a city with no central blueprint, constructed by collaborative decisions, adaptive structures, and community trial.
The city didn't wait for government sanction.
It didn't follow traditional zoning.
It grew—like a forest, responding to light and water.
And deep in the corner of the settlement sat a metal plaque nailed to the first cabin wall ever built here:
> "We start where the map ends."
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Location: Lumenis – Design Forum Circle
Time: 8:00 AM
A circular gathering of citizens—builders, teachers, teenagers, farmers—sat in a shared design council.
No seats of power. Everyone equal.
A hologram showed an old bridge model slowly deteriorating from foot traffic.
One man stood.
