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天 · Tin
Sky House
weather, broadcast, signal — anything that moves through air
Sigil motif
a radiating star, often hexagonal, suggesting broadcast outward
Drone form
bird-drones — sparrow to crow sized, ubiquitous
Uniform
pale blue with silver detailing
Atmosphere
broadcast towers, weather, signal, anything airborne — Wan Chai's nightlife sky
Standing
junior of the Eight by registration date; near-senior by influence
Public doctrine
The newest of the Eight, registered in 2034. Already among the most powerful. Sky governs the Web — every node has both a technical address and a Sky House registration — and the largest licensed broadcast towers in the city are under its primacy. Wan Chai and Causeway Bay are its strongest neighborhoods.
Private disposition
Sky is fast and ambitious in a way the older Houses are not. Its priestly board's average tenure is the shortest of the Eight. It is hungry for talent. It watches young Web specialists carefully. It has been watching Jin for some time.
Every significant piece of tech in Hong Kong has at least a minor Sky affiliation. Your phone, your transit pass, your Web access, the bird-drone above the alley you walked down five minutes ago — all of these carry Sky’s mark. This is normal and mostly invisible. It becomes visible when something goes wrong.
The Quiet Web
Sky governs the Open Web — public, monitored, mediated. The Quiet Web (Jing Mong) — the parallel network operated by unregistered nodes and modified hardware — is officially Sky’s blind spot. In practice Sky tolerates Quiet Web activity below a certain threshold and notices it sharply above. A Sky-clean run is one that completed without Sky noticing. Crews work very hard for those.