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The Ring Road

Illegal circuit racing network through Lost Angeles infrastructure corridors. Runs on Burnout culture. The NAF knows it exists. They also know what happens if they shut it down.

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As of2060

Coordinates34.000, -118.220

WithinLost Angeles

Deskcanon-doc

Alsothe Orbital Highway, the Ring

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cartographer · audio tour

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Ring Road. Forty-one kilometres of elevated highway circling the city at twelve metres: a freight lane, a racing circuit, a broadcast stage, and a moving argument about ownership. NAF signage calls it the Orbital Highway. Cameras face inward. The surface sits below the NAF's own civilian safety standard, because the road earns more as freight infrastructure than it would cost to make safe. What I can confirm: drone overflight windows at fixed intervals, VTOL points every fourth kilometre, and a relay somewhere on the ring that broadcasts after two. Who holds the title is a question the record answers differently depending on who is asking.

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Field record

The Ring Road is not a fixed location — it's a rotating circuit through Lost Angeles's infrastructure corridors, elevated transit shells, and reclaimed highway segments. Declared location changes 48 hours before each event.

The culture around it — Burnout — has become the dominant youth expression in the lower arcology zones. The NAF has calculated repeatedly that suppressing it would cost more in civil unrest than the minor property damage it generates. The calculation gets reviewed after every fatality.

Place

OT LostAngeles Book Map v1 page 1

map

Player-safe operational map of Lost Angeles for Raid Race / Heist Club Theater play, showing districts (Low Coast, Glass Forest, Barricadia, Alto Cito, Center Point, The Raze) inside the Ring Road with visible routes.

OT LostAngeles Book Map v1 page 2

map

GM-only Lost Angeles map with numbered secret sites, a GM key (Glass Forest convoy, Jaguario garage, Tooth and Gear, Monitor Gap, etc.) and GM pressure notes on Monitor Central, package stakes, and the Ring Road.

Who is here

People

Meera Devarajan

person · character

Drives to make the people who hurt her feel it. Reads a room the way she reads a corner under braking.

Soren Kestrel

person · character

Jockey. Fights his own decline the same way he fights a car built for a different kind of driver. Notices timing, tolerances, sound, the half-second where a decision has to be made.

Organizations

Raid Race

organization · network

The sport: crews run raids across the city and sprint packages to the Low Coast launch points. Jockeys, jumpers, spotters, mechanics, stealers. The Ring Road Enduro, the Tunnel Run, the Extraction Sprint. Eight teams deal at the Tooth and Gear.

In the press

Out of Reach

narrative · filing · as of 2066

A no-chip Raze crew steals a pre-Upheaval artifact off the Ring Road and then spends four rounds trying not to drop it, while the favored crew's fighter never once reaches the case.

Stories set here

Vire’s Second Act

narrative · serial · as of 2066

Kestrel Motorworks is thin-staffed, still recovering from its own bad season, and hires the Warranty Void crew as freelance support for a stretch of the Raid Race calendar. It is the most legitimate work any of them have ever had.

Warranty Void: The Mission Book, Volume One

narrative · book · as of 2066

Thirty-two contracts across the eight districts of Lost Angeles, four to a district, with the crew as pre-gens, the garage, and the body economy that everyone in the city is standing on.