Marakata 3

The Directorate had dug a grave miles wide beneath the Sunda plate, a colossal, iron containment sphere designed to function as an incubator for the non-compliant, an industrial furnace with a built-in twenty-year expiration date. They called it District Zero-Nine: Uttapta. They treated its inhabitants as garbage to be siphoned away during the periodic Clean Slate, turned into gas to heat the luxu...