Culmai (city)

The capital city of the capital world, Focus.

The name - the same amalgam of the names (Hardy) Cullum & (Solomon) Maier, that had been used to name the first world humans ever colonised - was an attempt to get the nascent PPB Navy to look favourably on, and join forces with, the Focus Protectorate's Black Fleet, to help restore order to the lawless diaspora colonies.

Culmai City is a zoner's wet-dream, with city planning raised to an art-form. Business districts, farming zones, vast green parklands, commercial districts, cultural zones, recreation and habitation areas are all planned meticulously, curated and maintained with surgical precision. The ultimate neat-freak's delight is, of course, the city limits, which are constrained precisely by the edges of a single time-zone. Culmai is a stripe, stretching North and South and stopping precisely at the boundaries of Business Time, or Focus Mean Time (FMT)."'With the evening terminator chasing the day away and the city of Culmai beginning its sweep into night, the lights of the city's eastern edge traced a razor straight path down the curve of the capital world, Focus.""Culmai's western reaches were as rigidly straight as those of the east, making it a vast, vertical stripe of a city. As precisely crafted as a watch mechanism, on a scale spanning an entire time-zone, its rotational procession was the slowly sweeping hour-hand setting the time for every world in the orphan spur of the Sagittarius arm.' - Chapter 1, Threat Session"