Tiphares, the flying city.

[Nickishero]

This topic came to my mind when I was searching for settlement mods and I saw some "sky settlement" related topics.

A couple of months ago, I watched the movie "Alita: Battle Angel". Some of you may have heard of it.

I don't want to give any spoilers for those who haven't watched the movie yet, first of all I do recommend it. It is a apocalyptic war cyberpunk ish theme.

 

In this movie, there is a flying city called Tiphares. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGxczWfUIAACysT.jpg

This city is very high tec, you could compare it to the inside of the institute (I think, the movie itself hasn't shown how the city looks like from the inside but everyone talks about it being very high tec. Would be shown in a part 2 very likely). Under Tiphares there is a garbage city. In the case of a mod, this would be the commonwealth.

 

Of course, this would be a huge mod. For this reason I think nobody is going to make it. I personally like the concept of putting this manga/movie thing into a game. Perhaps it might happen some day in a different game, like Cyberpunk 2077 by CD Project Red where the theme fits a bit better.

 

If someone would do something with this idea, I think it is also possible to just make the town itself not-accessable but just see it flying in the air like the picture I linked above. This would save a lot of time (I think) (and other modders could continue the project by building on top of it and making it accessible?). As you can see, there is a hole in the bottom. Garbage and debris from Tiphares is dropped down here on a huge garbage pile. Maybe it could be an option you get scrap over time from there in the commonwealth? This way it still has an use and fun.

The main character alita was also found on this garbage pile. (No spoiler, shown in trailer and movie start).

 

Lore friendly wise, this city must have appeared here after the bombs had dropped. Being as big as in the movie may be unrealistic though. 200 years wouldn't be enough time to create such a thing. I don't really know how to make it lore friendly.

 

The trailer if anyone is interested in watching this movie: