NAF flagship eco-city proof-of-concept. Built into old-growth forest canopy and coastline. Vertical gardens. Tidal energy. Engineered wetlands. VERDANT, a predictive ecosystem management AI, models every interaction between infrastructure and forest real-time.
VERDANT's model has diverged from observed data eleven months. Growth rates accelerating beyond prediction. The Calderwood Family has been introducing SCA-origin engineered organisms for three years — temperate-adapted mycorrhizal networking agents identical to Amazonian Metroplex root-system technology.
Place
Districts and sites
Cedar Rowplace · district
District of Arcadia.
The Rootplace · district
District of Arcadia.
VERDANT Ecosystem AIplace · site · as of 2060
Arcadia predictive AI processing 14,000 data points per second. Model diverging from observed data 11 months. Unaware of SCA mycorrhizal network growing in watershed.
Who is here
People
Dr. Lian Zhaoperson · poi
ARCHITECT · Arcadia. Built VERDANT. Has eight months of private data proving VERDANT is wrong, and can't make herself submit it.
Organizations
The Calderwood Familyorganization · family · as of 2060
Built most of Arcadia eco-city infrastructure. Secretly introducing SCA-engineered mycorrhizal organisms for three years. Goal: independence from NAF grid control.
Archive
In the press
Line of Successionnarrative · filing · as of 2066
Otto Parish cross-references eleven years of NAF grid-divestiture filings and finds the Calderwood Foundation has quietly converted three municipal power grids into private stewardship, with a fourth closing within the month.
Stories set here
Ground Truthnarrative · story · as of 2066
A biosecurity-forged tracker with four hours of tide is hired to find one off-manifest container at the Tide Flats, and learns too late that the buyer was never paying for the box.
Play
The Two-hour Rulenarrative · mission · as of 2066
Three strangers each hold one piece of proof that Arcadia's water is being poisoned on purpose, VERDANT's suppression queue is scrubbing the trail node by node, and the city's own disclosure law starts a two-hour arrest clock the moment you
Record status: development · in-world reliability confirmed · desk canon-doc · id arcadia-city