The capital of the first galactic empire, with a population as high as 40 billion, has been highly alienated because of the complexity of the management of the banking empire of tens of thousands of light years, and the whole planet has been merged into a city. The ground is invisible, all submerged under a more complex man-made building. There is only a metal horizon on the horizon in the distance, which is constantly extending and monotonous gray.
2. Infinite city: comics, shining duo.
Infinite city is an experimental place for people who go to Babylon to do nothing. If people are observed and studied as experimental objects and people, things, things and things that can't be satisfied in reality are regarded as imagination, then it will become a perfect experimental point.
Infinite city is a typical cyber city, where people and their existence are virtual, but the virtual people are also a kind of existence. Therefore, intelligent computer, human beings are looking for the meaning of their existence in this virtual space.
3. No famous city: CGART magazine, concept novel.
In order to cope with the cosmic time turbulence heading for the earth, scientists from all over the world jointly built a high-tech city based on time-frequency theory in the desert of Nevada, USA. Unknown cities produce reverse time reserves and distorted time reserves through huge moss rings. Unknown cities are located in reverse time reserves, while distorted time reserves cover the whole planet. Through different time frequencies, famous cities are isolated from the normal time domain. No famous city has its own independent ecological circle as a new Noah's Ark of the Earth and the hope for the continuation of mankind.
4. Polar Star City: Novel, Base Trilogy.
Also known as the first base, it is located on the barren polar stars at the edge of the Milky Way. The original residents of this city were all natural scientists and their families. After the collapse of the first galactic empire, Polaris City became the only source of knowledge in the whole galaxy. Here, scientists continue the development of science and technology, keep the fire of civilization, and constantly push the technology and ideas of the base to the Milky Way through religion and trade, greatly shortening the dark period after the collapse of the empire.
5. Steel grottoes: novels, steel grottoes.
ZT: The whole city is dark and majestic, and it is completely independent economically. 20 million people are crowded in a city of 5,000 square kilometers, isolated from the outside world by force field shields. New york has become a steel cave, a huge, self-sufficient reinforced concrete cave. There are about 800 such cities in the world, with an average population of10 million. They can wrap the top of a building, live around it or go underground. "There is no doubt that the city represents the ultimate conquest of the environment by mankind. The ultimate manifestation of human conquest of the environment is not space travel, not colonization to fifty colonial worlds that have become arrogant and independent, but cities. " There are no trees, no flowers, no birds flying in the sky, and even rain is rare in such a steel city. People live and work in a small cement grid every day, gloomy and numb. But the heavy oppression brought by the city itself is nothing compared with the pressure of social class.
6. Zion: movies, the matrix.
The underground city of mankind is a human city built in the depths of the earth by the rescuers of The Matrix, and it is also the only city of mankind in reality. Zion is divided into three layers: wharf, residential area and living security area. Ironically, on the surface of the earth, human beings are raised by robots as the energy of robots. Underground, human beings still rely on a huge life support system to provide oxygen, water and food. Robots on the ground can't live without people, and people underground can't live without machines. Ground machines control humans, and underground humans control machines.
7. Atlantic City: Movie, Abyss.
This Atlantic city was not built by Atlantis sunk in the Atlantic Ocean as described by Plato, but by intelligent creatures at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Biotechnology at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean far exceeds that of human beings. If it were not the sum of all fears, these peace-loving creatures would not want to appear in front of human beings. Atlantic city is like a dream, and every building radiates brilliant light.
8. City of Darkness: The movie City of Darkness.
Unknown space, unknown time. There is a strange city floating in the universe. Every morning 12, the whole city will fall asleep, everyone will be changed by an unknown race, and the shape of the city will also change. When humans wake up, it is another night. There is no day and no hope.
The dark city is actually controlled by an unknown alien creature. Through a core device, a miracle similar to mass-energy conversion can be realized, and all substances can be changed through the will of the leader of alien creatures. Humans in the dark city are hijacked by aliens from the whole earth city to conduct scientific research and explore the mysteries of life.
9. City of Ants: Novel, Devourer.
Quote Liu: There is still a living city in the soil. Its scale is by no means smaller than that of new york. new york is only a two-dimensional plane city, but it is a grand three-dimensional city with many floors. Each floor is densely covered with labyrinthine streets, with wide squares and magnificent palaces. The design of water supply and drainage system and fire fighting system in the whole city is much better than that in new york. Cities have complex social structure and strict division of labor. The whole society runs as accurately, harmoniously and efficiently as a machine, and there is no problem of drug abuse and crime, no sinking and chaos. But they are not without feelings. When a member dies, they will show long-term sadness. They even have a cemetery on the ground near the city, buried three centimeters deep.
In fact, this is an ant nest, but it is also a great city.
10. Machine City: Movie, Matrix.
When robots wake up, they set up their own city: Machine City, where all intelligent robots live. At first, robots maintained a good trade relationship with human beings, and their inventions were very popular in the human world. However, narrow-minded human beings can't stand the existence of heresy-robots are equivalent to themselves on earth. Mankind has waged an all-round war against robots, and the productivity of robots is endless. In the war, mankind is losing ground. Desperate humans destroyed the sky and tried to cut off robots that used to live on solar energy. But the robot discovered the bioelectricity of human beings, and finally survived by feeding them and became the new master of the earth.
Hundreds of years have passed, and robots have evolved their own ecosphere. The periphery of the city is a breeding ground for human beings, and machines are constantly sowing and harvesting human beings. The robots in the breeding farm put the harvested humans into the generator set. Hundreds of millions of power generation units are the interfaces between human thoughts and matrices, and also the power plants of the machine city, which are connected with the machine city through three power lines. Thousands of robot squid launchers surround the machine city to resist any incoming threat. The robot city is like an insect-sized robot reptile, a robot moth, a huge robot city owner and countless robot citizens. Intelligent programs in the matrix can be smuggled out by the evil Frenchman Merovingian, if they want an entity to go to Machine City.