The Forest of Towers & The Coolant Sea

The Forest of Towers

The Forest of Towers is where the majority of Ein Soph's ecosystem lives. Intended to be the ship's hydroponics bays, the water eventually overflowed (as Keter no longer needed to take the time to focus on it), eroding through the floor. And then again. And then again. And then... you get the idea.

Now, the more reinforced parts of the hydroponics bays survive in tall, plant-choked towers above the Coolant Sea.

Inhabitants of the Forest of Towers

The Symphlan's threads can cause heart failure if driven far enough into the skin.

The Forest is the most densely populated environment of Ein Soph: large feathered crickets, poisonous threaded symphlans, and other creatures fill the pillars, along with Keter's looming Stylites and ancient food-production robots.

Pesticides can be equally effective against human targets.

The Coolant Sea

The Coolant Sea lies beneath the Forest of Towers, where radioactive reactor runoff mixes with water from the hydroponics labs. Crossing it is made difficult by the mangrove-like trees growing into it. Predatory water striders skim over the surface, capsizing boats. Far beneath is the Hydra, a gigantic crustacean with hundreds of lamprey-like heads.