I worked up some schematics as a 'where things are' guide.
Within this we have approx
2 x Spire wards (0.002% population) ~ 45 thousand inhabitants each.
5 x Upper wards (1.5% population) ~ 14 million inhabitants each.
12 x Upper Mid wards (9.8% population) ~ 37 million inhabitants each.
20 x Lower Mid wards (65.3% population) ~ 155 million inhabitants each.
13 x Lower wards (23.5% population) ~ 90 million inhabitants each.
I reworked the size/volume of Hive Primus from Necromunda to get a sense of what was above/below ground, what had surface access and what did not.
Features
* Carnosaur capture and throne-control installation for knight-aspirant training
* Proving grounds - multi terrain battle simulations
* Antagonist holding yards - dangerous xenos, battle robots, penal companies
* Training arenas for duels and small-team training
* Candidate schools for knight-aspirants
All the above are supported by a large population of technicians, crafts-masters, trainers, ogryn dinosaur wranglers, beastman labourers, wardens, observers and all their habitation and sustainment requirements and secondary logistical support - transit, first-response medicae, authorised leisure and entertainments, shrines and worship facilitation.
Trappings & Trade
Imports of live great beasts for refit from the southern hemisphere and challengers for the arena and proving grounds - anything dangerous and able to put up a fight can work
Specific personnel found here are the knight-aspirants; those born to the knight-houses coming down from the upper hive or, rarely, offworld, those who have earned a place in the tests through outstanding performance in the down-hive cold-one cavalry or jetbike squadrons or as a fighter pilot. Occasionally a candidate swept up in testing for other Adepta is brought in.
Exports are a small handful of qualified knight-pilots so exceptional they warrant offworld transportation to one of the mother Knight-houses plus a large secondary output of pilots for fighters, speeders or sentinels plus candidates for Adeptus Titanicus, they Navy and similar.
Controlling Faction
Sacristan techno-magi of the Knight House Conneinster. They closely guard the secrets of the throne-like technologies which are used to create a control interface for a carnotaur that resembles that of a Knight war-machine. Their overwhelming priority is to prove the quality of the Knight-candidates of this world such that it be granted the right to become a full Knight-house. They oversee the brutal trials that grind carnotaurs, candidates and adversary forces into bloody scraps so that the few truly excellent candidates can be sent forth to glorify their name.
Rival Faction
Adeptus Mechanicus, arrived after the world was rediscovered, are split amongst themselves between three factions - a Mechanicus Biologis group that sees vindication and exhaltation of a cyborgisation approach, an orthodox Adeptus Mechanicus group that sees the Sacristans approach as near-heresy and loudly decries their every deviation from the sacred ways of the Omnissiah and a radical Adeptus Mechanicus group that believes that the Sacristans may have access to some unknown scraps of ancient STC technologies and wishes to learn from them. All three factions think the others utter fools and their internal fighting has let the Sacristans keep control so far.
Encounters
1. Wild carnotaur broken free causing mass chaos - noone wants to damage it during recapture.
2. Mechanicus-affiliated gangers intercepting a cargo of arena-remnants seeking tech to steal.
3. Riot by arena-fodder being suppressed by a cold-one mounted Arbites squadron.
4. Gang fight between rival mechanicum-faction-affiliates.
5. Offworld candidates agitating for consideration at the aspirant colleges - "Don't you know who I am?"
6. Attempted assassination of a champion arena knight.
7. Patrol on cold-ones, very snappish and by-the-book. Demand authorisations.
8. Ogryn carnotaur-wrangler, angry since 'his' carnotaur does not recognise him since refit for the arena.
9. Rowdy arena crowd - demand opinions from passers-by.
10. Rival arena-knight supporters having a grudge brawl.
11. Misfiring mindlink has a rogue beast and pilot on the loose.
12. New arena-champion flush with victory and celebrating - generous to those who respectfully join, furious if snubbed
NPCs
1. Master Sacristan (head of refit) - dour, focussed, ancient. Lives are grit to the long plan.
2. Arena-Knight - expert, glorious, above your concerns.
3. Carnotaur hunter ogryn - grizzled, cunning, wants back out in the jungles to do what he knows
4. Candidate assessor - hideously scarred patched with augmetics, sharp wit & mind, no time for fools.
5. Craftsmaster (reclamations) - hunched, smells of offal and oils, cheerful.
6. Arena superfan - bio-modded, intense, knowledgable, hair-trigger. Leads gang of fans.
7. Mechanicus Biologis - lumpy beneath cloaks, ocular tentacles, asks a lot of questions.
Plot Hooks
1. Black market titan-core was fitted to a carnotaur which has now escaped. Find it, quickly, quietly and retrieve it unharmed.
2. That arena-knight should lose their next bout. Lot of creds on it.
3. A desperate candidate wants intel on the upcoming challenges.
4. A buyer seeks a throne-like control - your choice whether attached to a carnotaur or from the retif works or arena-salvage.
5. Someone has been drugging arena fodder and ruining fight data for the assessors. Backtrack the source, stop them.
6. Expedite escort of the best carnotaur vet to the arena to save a wounded champion beast.
Three more wards worked up this month were:
T17 - Central medicae where man, beast and beastman are patched together to longer serve the Emperor
T39 - Railheads where ships are hauled in from the now distant coast
T41 - Bone reclamation and the meat honey apiaries
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