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Description     After that Carter V series of drawings, I'd realized that I never actually produced a map of Huxley III, so here it is.
As I've said many different times, Huxley III is a planet which cannot sustain life. The atmosphere is heavy with phosphorous, it's far too distant from its home star, and so on and so forth. It's a bit like Mars, having water reserves producing constant snowfall which are, like the atmosphere, poisonous to humans as well.
    With this map, I'd thought through my ideas for the setting, such as an original series of climate dome developments overseen entirely through the ambitions of the aristocratic Council of Utopia, and the cancerous expansion of urban and suburban development outside of that original development, following a service economy, of sorts, built around pneuma drilling, a gradual decline and stagnation in Huxley III's ability to expand its urban development outward due to the Tendency for Rates of Profit to Fall (the primary ambition of the Council of Utopia is to develop an ecumonopolis).
    Much of this drawing is probably not to scale.
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