City of Converging Stars

Wherever credit points circulate, the Corporation's enormous media network reaches.
Under the ceaseless research of Interastral Peace Entertainment, human needs can now be quantified into emotional value by the second, together with a terminal able to connect to the Interastral Peace network. Tracing the signal back, Astropolis, located in Epsilon, is the focal point of this enormous media network spread across the universe.

As the office building that gathers together the departments of Interastral Peace Entertainment, this high tower stands upon the ground like a needle pointing straight at the sky. Countless employees here produce films, radio dramas and entertainment programs day and night without rest. The user base they serve is so enormous that any project at all must go through lengthy discussions, along with an industrialized process fine-tuned precisely down to every curve of emotion.

The media magnates hope to control the size of their departments at the peak of the profit-margin curve, and to break creativity down into indicators that can be used for performance reviews. An employee once revealed that in the archive of narrative resources you can come across tragic passages that would make a Hired Mourner shed tears, as well as comedy formulas that would make a Masked Fool laugh until his sides ache. They are compiled into a set of algorithms, adjusted flexibly according to every small expression of the audience, in order to guarantee the very best viewership results.

It cannot be denied that under the Corporation's powerful operation, a great many of the universe's biggest stars rose step by step from this place into brilliance.
It is a dream factory that builds stars, drawing wave after wave of young people here to chase their dreams and offer up their youth.
The lights on the high tower have never gone out; it is a clock hand pointing forever at twelve, exactly as article one of the Astropolis employee handbook says: Humanity's craving for entertainment has no dormant period.

Gardens, beaches, shopping centers, tournaments... The Corporation provides comfortable accommodation for its employees, and through it creates a model of the happy human life, otherwise known as the sample space of the "Corporate Dream".

After work, at the seaside, racing, volleyball, yachting, concerts... there is always at least one pleasure to help you kill time and give you more to gossip about.
Consumption is the best way to release the pressure of work, luxury goods display the social class of the buyer, and cheap entertainment is the shortcut to touching joy, not to mention the discounts reserved for employees.
Given the chance, employees will not forget to seize the moment to promote whatever product they are holding in front of the camera lenses that appear everywhere. A truly outstanding employee turned marketing into a natural part of life long ago.

High above their heads, at the top of the sky, the magnates live in floating structures, deep in thought over the Corporation's future.
Driven on by Arita, head of the "Traditional Project Department", Astropolis has become a place of truce for many of the Corporation's departments. Departments that are usually at odds meet here periodically, using a moderate attitude to mend relations and reconcile conflicts.
That is a moment that carries the weight of change; no matter how trivial the decision passed down below may be, it can still stir up a great storm.

Now and then extravagant rains of paper money are scattered down from the top of the clouds, falling on the heads of lucky employees, and that is one of the very few chances to touch the upper ranks.
You will see fervor, excitement, discontent, weariness... every kind of emotion flashing past in the eyes of ordinary employees, and the desire at the bottom of their hearts is like a flame set alight, the fuel that keeps Astropolis shining forever.