Each route reads downward from settlement shadows, wild gaps, or abnormal signals until a small habitat reveals how it breathes.
Habitat NoteWarm vapor from the dome, periodic pressure releases from old flood-control works, and seawater intrusion converge here. Transit tubes, maintenance towers, and tide gates surface only at low tide, while submerged metal frames carry sound through the shallows and turn the whole wetland into a resonator.
NB-01 · Vancouver Dome FrontierEnter this habitat ↗
Habitat NoteMagnetite-rich basalt needles have absorbed years of storm charge. As tides rise and geothermal vents breathe, the rock releases that charge slowly. Cold seawater, turquoise hot springs, sulfur deposits, and a collapsed prewar radar array create a layered habitat where compasses drift in a repeating cycle and reflected signals can mislead even reliable electronic navigation.
NB-02 · Aleutian Magnetic Storm ChainEnter this habitat ↗
Habitat NoteThe reserve began as an understory isolation zone for testing photonic wafers and heat-dissipation materials. Mycelium and tree roots now cover the retired wafer glass, turning it into polarized terraces that split dome light. Condensation water, low-grade waste heat, and mineral films left by maintenance machines sustain a local ecology that depends on diffraction, static charge, and fungal rings.
NB-03 · Neo Babylon Chip SanctuaryEnter this habitat ↗
Habitat NoteThe corridor was built for anchor changes, maintenance, and the passage of marine life. As the city moves, algae-energy membranes cast kilometers of cyan-green shadow over seasonal plankton, grazing fish, and reefbuilders. Artificial reefs travel with the deep anchor cables. Beneath them, a drowned city's military sonar began feeding back through floating-city communications, folding a once-readable Kuroshio soundscape into overlapping false routes.
NB-04 · Kuroshio Floating City ChainEnter this habitat ↗
Habitat NoteThe forest stands where equatorial monsoons meet ocean-borne acid rain. Giant leaves intercept the rain first. Mineral films and symbiotic fungi reduce its acidity before the water moves along buttress roots and shallow channels, forming a cyan-violet Mycelial River beneath the canopy. The abandoned climate station once supplied fresh water to the South Seas outpost through mist condensers. After shutdown, roots and mycelia gradually absorbed the structures into a vertically layered water system: canopy interception, under-leaf predation, ground-level decomposition, root-channel flow, and migration by large ecosystem engineers.
NB-05 · South Seas Forgotten ArchipelagoEnter this habitat ↗
Habitat NoteThis corridor is the harbor's outer natural breakwater and can still renew itself. Crystal coral adsorbs metals and radioactive particles from seawater. Seagrass root beds hold the carbonate sand made by parrotfish. Flexible reef pores and deep channels let larvae, fish, and large migrants cross the harbor before storm season. Hard reef becomes a sealed wall unless those flexible openings and the seagrass belt remain connected.
NB-06 · Coral Ark HarborEnter this habitat ↗
Habitat NoteThis delta buffer changes its boundary between land and water every day. Mangrove roots have rewoven old farm ridges into floating islands. Detachable rafts preserve salt-tolerant crops and wild seed stock. Stilt towers, tidal gates, and the Calamity Spillway form a passable route only during short monsoon windows. Fresh and salt water, suspended silt, pollen, high-root nurseries, and deep-channel pressure together sustain a seed network that must remain mobile.
NB-07 · Bengal Monsoon LabyrinthEnter this habitat ↗
Habitat NoteThis passage lies between the high-walled city and the rift's geothermal marsh. A Subsurface Cold-Water Lens once held back superheated brine and fed a chain of cold springs through black-lava fractures. Tube worms, beetles, rhinoceroses, wild dogs, and giant bovids read temperature, soil, and microtremors at different scales. The Ninth Condensation Gate opens only when the natural tremor field and cold-water level are both safe. The wall is therefore not a permanent barrier, but a temporary boundary that must obey the habitat's rhythm.
NB-08 · Swahili Rift SeawallEnter this habitat ↗
Habitat NoteLights-Out Cold-Well Corridor is a local habitat record on the edge of Atlas Gate and the Glass Sahara.
NB-09 · Atlas Gate and the Glass SaharaEnter this habitat ↗Follow Fang and K into a world that has not yet been understood.