Agartha

Agartha is a hollow-world settlement excavated inside a small, geologically active moon. It serves as a defensible refuge and a place for research. Its structures are practical responses to the rock around them and the possibility of attack from outside.

Building inside a moving world

Gantries are bolted into the rock. Oversized coupling joints allow movement, and padding protects surfaces where seismic activity makes contact likely. Worn padding and repeated drilling marks show that these precautions have been needed.

Natural stone remains visible through the settlement. Mineral dust, recycled oxygen, and biological scrubbers are part of its inhabited environment. In the common area, even the table is secured against seismic drift.

Research and communications

Sam Rothrock works from a former survey equipment bay filled with computing hardware, documents, and maps. A separate room holds long-range telemetry instruments linked through shielded conduits to equipment on the moon’s exterior.

Agartha’s old relay infrastructure is useful to his work. Its mixture of improvised workspaces and carefully maintained instruments makes the settlement a place where signals can be investigated at a distance from larger institutions.