Trope-a-Day: Quirky Town

Alistair Young

Apr 18, 2016

Quirky Town: Outside the arcologies, they’re all quirky towns, just about. Most of them, as you might expect, were founded by people with ideas. And then the people with ideas had memetics to help reinforce community and the local idea, which then gets to interact with the cast of eccentric individualists that any town in the Empire has as its population, and then you get…

…yeah.

(The arcologies, incidentally, are also pretty damn quirky. They just aren’t towns.)

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