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Angel Towers (Arcology) in the London Sourcebook for Shadowrun (1st Edition)

From The Palaces, you can look south across the Thames and see the Angel Towers, London’s arcology, built on the former site of the Battersea Power Station and emblazoned atop with the logo of its corporate owner, British Industrial – Peter the Panda.

The book didn’t provide a picture, so this is what I imagine it looks like.

Seattle has two arcologies – the Self-Contained Industrial-Residential Environment (SCIRE), aka the Renraku Arcology, and the main pyramid of the Aztechnology Northwest Complex. Both of these megas have a presence in London, though not to the same extent as Seattle. Renraku comes close – the map shows a Renraku Complex in SX Overspill District, east of The Docklands, and their entry lists the town of Dagenham as their UK HQ, but otherwise no details are given as to whether this is a true arcology or not.

British Industrial PLC – BIPLIC, which should be pronounced “bip-lick”—has two major divisions: British Electrical and British Food Products, and so produce the cheap plazz and stuffers that runners worldwide live on. That being the case, there’s not really much that makes this a target for corp espionage. From the London Sourcebook:

More seriously organized criminals would not likely bother with British Industrial, because most of what’s kept here is of poor quality and/or hard to move. As for BI’s few industrial secrets, a decker can ferret them out in the Matrix without ever having to enter the arcology.

Like the Renraku Arcology, the lower levels of Angel Towers are dedicated to shopping malls, where you can stop in and eat some questionable digits at Captain’s Galley!

Tastes like cockatrice.

Covert Garden Market

Also included in this section is the Covert Garden Market, just to the southeast of Angel Towers an open-air fruit & vegetable market that, if you play your cards right, might also net you from fish skeletons from the Indian Ork Bhaterjees family.

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UNIPLICATE

ADJECTIVE

Of (part of) the shell of a brachiopod or mollusc: that has a single fold. Of a brachiopod or mollusc: having such a shell.

Origin

Early 19th century; earliest use found in Abraham Rees (1743–1825), Presbyterian minister and encyclopaedist. From uni- + plicate, after multiplicate.

https://www.lexico.com/definition/uniplicate __________________________________________________________________

- Uniplicate is used as a scientific adjective to describe the distinct characteristic of the subject.  It is mainly used to define molluscs and brachiopod’s anterior shell.  

- Uniplicate is a term used alongside multiplicate and biplicate to determine the amounts of folds in a shell.  https://bioone.org/journals/acta-palaeontologica-polonica/volume-56/issue-4/app.2010.0106/Silicified-Mississippian-Brachiopods-from-Muhua-Southern-China--Rhynchonellides-Athyridides/10.4202/app.2010.0106.full

Loosely related to uniplicate’s definiteion is the word commissure.  Commissure: a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the oher of the brain or spinal cord  Uniplicate and Commissure are often seen alongside each other to describe the subject’s (molluscs) biology.  Anterior:  nearer to the front, especially situated in the front of the body or nearer to head.