Welcome to Jingbai City

Welcome to Jingbai City

The Neon City

The busy capital of the Asahi (Sunrise) Empire mixes the ultramodern and the traditional, from neon-lit skyscrapers to historic temples and back street slums. The opulent Minamoro Earth Spirit Shrine is known for its towering gate and surrounding woods. The Imperial Palace sits amid large public gardens. The city's many museums offer exhibits ranging from classical art to modernist Dawbs.  A first class Metro system competes with traditional rickshaw taxis.

Modern Corporations such as Hao Corporation, the Harano Group and Cybercom choose to make Jingbai their headquarters, such as the stunning Sky Towers, promoting wealth and power.  All three have suburban manufacturing nodes and export through the City's busy port.

Underneath the surface however all is not well.  Criminal gangs, principally those of the Yakusa crime families, but of late including Mafia, Triad and Tong groups from overseas, have come to dominate the underworld here.  The sprawling Genhana District is little better than squalid ruins, fought over by Street thugs.  There is a general sense of unease  that something is very wrong in Jingbai, yet nobody seems aware of the exact nature of the problem.

The overworked Jingbai City Police Department face several challenges: Frightening new illegal drugs have been introduced.  Rogue Replicants have been appearing, returning to the city where they were created, and always surrounded by murder and chaos.  Most dangerous of all however are the antics of the so called Seven Great Families, who claim ancient Mystic powers and privileges, although in reality it is their tremendous wealth that allows them to act exactly as they see fit, yet escape any justice for terrible crimes.

The Great Familes each claim descent from one of the seven Ancient gods, or spirits.  To ordinary citizens of Jingbai it sounds like nonsense, but the Families believe it, and play bloody power games with one another over ancient Chi artefacts.  Indeed the problem over "new drugs" is rumoured to be linked to these so called aristocratic houses.  Cynics claim it is a war fought over possession of drug money and pointless antiques.

In response the Government have passed the Replicant Act, requiring the Police to utilise specialist teams to hunt down the Rogue cyborgs.  This is an additional drain on an overstretched department.  No action has, or will be taken against the Seven Families, especially since Lady Mika Harano, one of the seven, is Governor of Jingbai.