Safe cities. Places the monsters will not go.
Twelve cities where the street lighting itself is the enforcement. Proof of concept, not coverage.
Neutral Zones
Contact pathology · Twelve citiesPlate · OVERLORD · Neutral Zones · theoretical reconstruction
Twelve cities, unnamed. Density, LED-saturated night, every civilian phone an unwitting sensor. A place where non-human activity is maximally detectable. Safe cities, in the folklore. Architecture of light and crowd, on the plate.
Twelve cities, unnamed here: naming would compromise the architecture. Three criteria, one principle — a place where non-human activity is maximally detectable and maximally suppressible. Density: a feeding in a city of three million produces witnesses a rural incident does not; every civilian phone is an unwitting sensor. Light: LED-saturated night drives above the LR-1 threshold; a inside the limit cannot shift; the lighting is the enforcement. Three to seven embedded monitors per city, EMS, forensic pathology, law enforcement, civilian cover, Level-5.
Evidence in one hour. Confirm or dismiss in six. Silver Sanction request in twelve. Zero-tolerance, Accords-inviolable. Twelve islands. Approximately 4,500 cities over 100,000 people. The Committee cannot scale. Proof of concept, not coverage.
Ch. 21
Joint Threat Assessment