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New Batavia

PFZ administrative capital. Built on Bogor highlands after Old Jakarta went 8 meters underwater. 3.2 million residents — 400,000 over designed capacity. The Old City is visible through the harbor water at low tide.

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As of2060
Coordinates-6.550, 106.920
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Field record

PFZ administrative capital. Built on Bogor highlands after Old Jakarta went 8 meters underwater. 3.2 million residents — 400,000 over designed capacity. The Old City is visible through the harbor water at low tide. The light that still cycles green-yellow-red hasn't been on a functioning power grid for 20 years.

Old Jakarta is eight meters underwater at high tide. The satellite imagery is striking — the old street grid visible through clear water, traffic indicators pointing in directions that no longer exist, one signal light still cycling green-yellow-red every 47 seconds, powered by something on the drowned grid that has outlasted everything else.

New Batavia was built on the Bogor highlands over fifteen years of extraordinary engineering. 3.2 million residents, 400,000 over designed capacity. Water rationing hits the outer districts — disproportionately occupied by elevation migrants without legacy residency rights.

The PFZ Maritime Council is sitting on the Arafura Sea Lumicite shelf survey data. Disclosing it solves the infrastructure funding crisis. Disclosing it ends PFZ sovereignty over the Scatter.

Place

Districts and sites

The Shelf
place · district
District of New Batavia.

Archive

In the press

Above the Line
narrative · filing · as of 2066
New Batavia was built for 2.8 million and holds 3.2 million, and the instrument that closes the difference is a renewal date the Council calculates and does not print.
Cut for the ladder
narrative · filing · as of 2066
In New Batavia the working day crosses the waterline a dozen times, and the wardrobe has had to answer for it. Five garments, and the makers who decided what they are for.

Stories set here

Slack Water
narrative · story · as of 2066
A washed SCA caiman dives the drowned Buenos Aires grid for a sealed aquifer baseline and finds out who moved the tide.
Unaccounted
narrative · story · as of 2066
A discharged Corsair infiltrator has seventy-one minutes of low tide to cut a live power keeper out of the drowned building the market is bolted to, and the buyer turns out to be a form.
Freelance
narrative · serial · as of 2066
A genomically stateless mercenary, hollowed by the training op that got his people killed, is hired by a cable magnate to rescue a wife from the harbor boss who took her, in a drowned free-port the surveillance bloc is buying

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contains
The Shelf
controlled by
Pacific Free Zone · globe faction tag as of 2060
setting of
Above the Line
Cut for the ladder
Freelance
Slack Water
Unaccounted

Sources

Record status: development · in-world reliability confirmed · desk canon-doc · id new-batavia