Capital Knot City

Capital Knot City UCA-01-003
Country	United Cities of America
Region	Eastern Region
Code	K2
Head of distribution	Nick Easton
Population	42,187
Inhabitants	Die-Hardman (formerly) Deadman (formerly) Bridget Strand (deceased, formerly) Sam (formerly)

Capital Knot City is the actual capital city of the United Cities of America and the sister city of Central Knot City.

History

When the United States was devastated by the Stranding, Capital Knot was constructed after, and initially subordinate to, its much larger sister city of Central Knot City and, though possessing the name "capital", was not designated as the seat of the UCA. When the newly elected president, Bridget Strand, began the BB experiments, in the city was established an intensive care unit within, where stillmothers are kept alive in a persistent vegetative state, for the purpose of periodically using data gathered from their wombs to update the environmental data of bridge baby pods.

In the years prior to the Bridges I Expeditions, the Chiral Network was perfected between these twin cities and the remnants of the federal government made plans for American Reconstruction. With the growing uprising against the UCA by the Homo Demens, some in the government were concerned about keeping all their eggs in one basket, prompting many national command and control functions to be secretly moved from Central to nearby Capital Knot City, including the President Strand herself, who began suffering from the final stages of uterine cancer which occurred in her 20s. This foresight would ultimately save the UCA itself after the catastropic loss of Central a short time later to an engineered voidout attack.

It is inside the private room in the city that Sam is brought after the incident and where, after being placed under contract without his knowledge, he meets his dying adoptive mother, President Strand, after a long time. After taking the corpse to the nearest incinerator, Die-Hardman informs Sam that from Capital Knot he must leave on an expedition westward, retracing the steps of the first expedition, to reconnect America and save Amelie.

With the threat of the Last Stranding foiled, the Chiral Network fully functioning and the United Cities of America established, the newly elected President Die-Hardman delivers his presidential speech from the holographic oval room inside Capital Knot.

Locations

• UCA-01-003: Checkpoint
• UCA-01-003: Bridges Distribution Center
  • Private room
  • Firing range
  • Garage
• UCA-02-031: Bridges Isolation Ward
  • ICU
  • President's Office (Projection)
• Bridges HQ

Connection rewards

Reward	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
Chiral network	Network bandwidth increase (+560)	-	Network bandwidth increase (+560)
Interview data	"Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Etc."	"BB Echolocation"	"Fear as Pleasure"
	"The Corals of the Seam"	"DOOMS and the Zodiac"	"The Egyptian View of the Brain"
	"Cryptobiotes"
Materials storage	Max. materials storage increased	Max. materials storage increased	Max. materials storage increased
Hologram data	-	Nick Easton	-
Patch	-	-	Patch 12: Capital Knot City
Token of gratitude	Cap	-	Star

Materials storage

Material	Base	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
Chiral Crystals	300	600	1006	1584
Resins	1184	1696	2974	4958
Metals	2120	2855	4914	7952
Ceramics	-	-	-	-
Chemicals	-	-	-	-
Special Alloys	-	-	-	-

Notes

• It is assumed Capital Knot City was rebuilt in the ruins of Washington D.C.
• The current population of Capital Knot City is 42,187.
• Being sister cities, Capital and Central Knot share the first part of the UCA code, ie "01", unlike the other Knot Cities which have their own.

Gallery

Capital Knot City skyline

Capital Knot City Downtown

Capital Knot City Distribution Centre